I don't even remember when I first heard of linux. Had to be early to mid 90's, because I remember scrapping my allowance together and buying my first linux book before I could drive. I couldn't make much sense out of the book since I didn't have a linux box to play with. My first exposure to a linux box was a contest/game that someone set up for teaching hacking/exploiting. My first hour on that box taught me more about linux then the past few years of reading books and articles ever did. From there I used various boot CD's (I couldn't afford to dedicate hard drive space on my antiquated laptop for a dual boot system). I managed to teach myself enough that when I got to the Navy, I was one of the most qualified to become the lead administrator with the ships HP-UX systems and the go-to-guy for any other *nix system on board. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110105/adce1d3f/attachment.htm