[ale] non-technical Linux question

[Sergio Chaves]

I signed up for a CNET class at Clayton State University back in 1999.
During open house I met the professor (I cannot recall his name), coolest
guy ever. He took me to his office and showed me a preview of what we were
going to study - Redhat Linux 6. It was love at first sight. Setting up "X'
was great on my Dell Lattitude C800 with 250Meg RAM and 1.5 gig HD - today
happily running Puppy Linux retro Long Term Precise and giving me a lot of
laughs when it opens web pages faster then my kids and friend's plagued
M$W7 modern laptops :-)
Although installed, the use of GUI tools was very limited; CLI tools only
for most of the classes. There was no way out now, I was hooked to this
"Linux thing".
Signed up next semester and met professor Byron Jeff (use to contribute
here a lot in the past). First day of class and he takes a motherboard full
of cables inside a shoebox and connects it to the class projector. After
everybody picked up their jaws from the floor :-) , we had at it. It was
awesome.
Shortly after, Winter 2003, I got a job on a Linux/Open Source only
company. All ACER servers running SCO Linux with PROGRESS Database 6
installed. Servers were maxed out at 1GIG RAM and 6 x 9GIG HDs. Installed
Applixware Office Suite and Star Office Suite (better but heavier).
Installed VMWare 1.0 and was amazed with the "magic" of virtualization.
Messed around with Corel Linux (I liked it a lot, still do not understand
why it did not take off).
Oh, and then Ximian came along and I was able to sync my Sony Clie and Palm
IIIe after many hours of messing around with the plugins.
<SadAlmostCryingWithTearsInHisFaceNow>
Those were really good times... I learned a lot then.
</SadAlmostCryingWithTearsInHisFaceNow>

Sergio



On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Reese Johnson <rtfmjohnson at comcast.net>wrote:

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> Got started with Linux around 2003 after seeing screenshots of old
> GNOME and KDE, from online friends. I would try and emulate the way
> they looked on our familys computer with http://www.litestep.net/ (I
> got pretty close) was nice they had a plugin that let you choose
> explorer.exe or lightstep on boot. Real handy because I did not have
> to edit boot.ini after I got off the machine.
>
> Around this time I seen a computer out in the street by my neighbors
> mailbox and trashcan. This was my chance to enter this new interesting
> world! I promptly asked why it was in the street. Was told that it was
> broke and that I could have it. I had no idea how to fix it so I just
> switched every setting in the BIOS.finally it booted and I installed
> Redhat 9 that I purchased from Office Depot much cheaper than Windows
> 2000. I was able to compile the kernel for support for my soundcard
> and modem. I found eskimo.com gave away free trails and used a few of
> them. Prior to this a friend and me failed installing Redhat on his
> 486 because we did not read the manual. I still have the old K62 and
> the RH9 cd's and manuals, don't think I'll ever part with them.
>
> Stay safe if you are around the ice and snow.
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