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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I can't
remember exactly when I first used Linux. Probably around 1993-94 when
it was a 2 floppy set, but reading your email lead me to curiously
search for my name on usenet, and I was surprised to find my very first
time I posted something on the Internets....While I started using the
Internet (downloads from ftp sites and irc mostly) in fall 1991, it was
spring 1992 when I first posted online...(not BBS, but the Internets)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.pakistan/browse_thread/thread/b9556e7bc1992973/c61684bd6fbdc825?q=asim+beg#c61684bd6fbdc825">http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.pakistan/browse_thread/thread/b9556e7bc1992973/c61684bd6fbdc825?q=asim+beg#c61684bd6fbdc825</a><br>
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so Linux 1993/94?<br>
Internet Sep 1991 (mostly Usenet, ftp, irc)<br>
First post Apr 1992<br>
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Baig</strong><br>
Cognizo Technologies <br>
6950 France Ave S, Suite 218<br>
Edina, MN 55435<br>
w: (952) 955-6052 x101<br>
c: (612) 382-7474<br>
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Kris Browne wrote:
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cite="mid:8255989d1002022240n1bc49390oc741ee0eabb3d662@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">When,
why, and how did you start using Linux?<br>
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class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Wow...
Let's see here. I know when I started using Linux Slackware 1 was
current, so that puts it around 1993. At the time, I was looking for
something with more current development than the Minix I had been using
before that.</span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Minix had
spoiled me with virtual consoles, command line completion, and a ton of
other things which DOS couldn't even think to deliver at the time.
However, Andy Tanenbaum famously had no desire to expand it to a
general purpose system. BSD was still shackled by ATT, so Linux became
the next logical choice.</span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Around
1994 I was hosting a BBS. Desqview was a royal pain to use, and there
were no other real useful DOS mutltaskers. In the end, I ran DOSemu on
top of Linux to host multiple nodes of my BBS, which ended up using
less overhead and provided better performance than Deskview did.</span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">For the
past nearly 20 years, my desktop systems have been almost exclusively
Unix systems of some sort, and most of that has been on Slackware or
some other Linux flavor.</span></font></div>
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Kris Browne<br>
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612-353-6969<br>
612-408-4431<br>
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href="http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne">http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne</a><br>
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"the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't
have to write." - Steve Jobs<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 21:42, Jason Hsu,
Linux user <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com">jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">When,
why, and how did you start using Linux?<br>
<br>
I started using Linux 3 years ago. The reasons I started using Linux
were:<br>
1. I had heard about how Windows was full of security holes. It also
seemed that security threats only grew over time.<br>
2. I had heard that support for Windows 98 (my main OS at the time)
was about to be terminated and that this was even more vulnerable to
security threats than Windows XP. I wasn't about to "upgrade" my main
computer from Windows 98 due to the expense and trouble of doing so.<br>
3. I heard that Windows Vista was nasty - a quantum leap forward in
bloatware that was slow even on many NEW computers. I also heard that
Vista didn't work with many items of older hardware like printers,
scanners, etc.<br>
4. I'm cheap. My attitude towards computers can be summed up by, "If
it ain't broke, don't replace it." I didn't think Windows XP was that
much better than 98 or 98 that much better than 95. But I noticed that
it took more RAM, hard drive space, processor power, etc. to do exactly
the same things we had done 10 years earlier. At the same time, I
noticed that there weren't many killer apps (like the Internet in the
1990s), so I felt that we should be able to keep using the same
computer for 5-10 years.<br>
5. I'm green. I thought it was scandalous that so many computers get
trashed each year NOT because some critical component failed but
because the OS failed or was declared obsolete. To me, the only good
reason to get rid of a computer is because it breaks and cannot be
repaired.<br>
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So I bought a used IBM NetVista desktop computer (256 MB of RAM, 1 GHz
processor, 20 GB hard drive, built in 2001, originally equipped with
Windows 2000, which had been removed for sale) for $50 from a local
used computer dealer. I also bought a KVM switch so I could switch
between the older computer and the newer one. I used this newer used
computer for going online and used the old computer with Windows 98
strictly offline. (I still have and use this old computer, which I
bought new in 2000. It had a 466 MHz processor and a 4.3 GB hard
drive. It originally had just 128 MB of RAM, but I upgraded it to 384
MB of RAM. I just recently replaced the Windows 98 setup with Linux.)<br>
<br>
Over the last 3 years, I have been doing more and more stuff in Linux
and less and less in Windows. My first distro was Fedora Core 1,
because the CD came with the book _Linux For Non-Geeks_. Then I used
Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu. (I dabbled with Debian but
couldn't get it configured properly.) I recently switched to antiX
Linux. As I mentioned before, it's the most lightweight and
user-friendly distro with more than 20,000 programs in the repository
due to the Debian repository compatibility. It's the best of both
worlds.<br>
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--<br>
Jason Hsu, Linux user <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com">jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com</a>><br>
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