All'y'all- I started using Linux when I noticed that it was a lot more fully developed than Minix was. Not that I ever got around to loading Minix. It was around late 1995 and I was using (MsDos and Win3.1) and kermit to TRY to work from home (telecommute). Work had mostly Sun workstations running SunOs for software development. But Linux had all the GNU stuff--gcc, perl, bash. I had a little help to figure out how to get ppp running. I used slackware I got off a CD-ROM bought at a shop near the University of MN. I was hooked! This is despite the hardware that I had at the time which was a 25MHz 386DX. I could run X in it but I couldn't run gcc in X (it'd thrash itself crazy). So I used virtual terminals up until I got a new system in 2001. But even under those limitations, it was a lot simpler telecommuting with (Linux + GNU) than with (MsDos + kermit + almostNoTools + Win3.1). Most of our software development was C, incidentally. Currently, I've been using ubuntu... Thanks, -Steve Steve Trapp, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, US My home page: http://home.comcast.net/~steventrapp steventrapp at \ comcast dot net is my e-mail address. :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100205/b5603fbe/attachment.htm