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