How did you begin with Linux?

[Douglas James]

Out of curiosity, how many of you started using Linux on your own, and how many of you began using Linux because your career required it?

[T Smith]

On my own, started with DamnSmallLinux and worked my way from there.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Douglas James <douglas...@gmail.com> wrote:

Out of curiosity, how many of you started using Linux on your own,  and how many of you began using Linux because your career required it?

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[Jason Spivey]

I started on my own. My first experience was knoppix. My brother introduced me to it. Never really got into it. I started a little later with Ubuntu. Been using for a while now.

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[Micheal Kinney]

On my own with no particular reason. I believe I too started with Damn Small Linux and moved on to several Debian disros. I played around with Compiz and Wine at the time (good times and fun for a intro into Linux). I hacked around until I got good at Shell and I think I was seeking Windows independence but there always seemed to be a reason to come back. A few years later, I took a Linux Certification class and they used openSUSE. Fast forward a few years later and we got these wonderful things called Virtual Machines that makes testing out one of the million Linux flavor variants pretty easy, save arm based ones: they're still a pain to virtualize but it's possible.

[Jeffrey Spivey]

My first experience with Linux came in the form of Slackware, just out of curiosity. But without having a guru to show me the ropes, it just sat there with little configuration. TechTV and Leo Laporte mentioned "Live Distros" and their ease of use, which led to Knoppix. However, it wasn't until Ubuntu arrived, that it became my daily driver.

[Douglas James]

My Linux journey started in 2010. I had been using MS since Win95, and earlier that year I built a Hackintosh, and started learning the inner workings of that. After awhile, I got bored of continually trying to keep the Hackintosh running (since it was CONSTANTLY locking up), I found Ubuntu 10.04, and thought I would give it a try. Honestly, I thought it was really ugly and didn't think I would be able to use it for much, it was just so..... basic! No real bells and whistles, a bongo startup sound, ugly orange, etc. I decided to stick with it purely for novelty, I would read about how to use the command line ( which coming from Windows was like using a manual can opener vs. an electric one, or so I thought), and learned basic commands...

Time passes, and I'm finding myself booted into Ubuntu more than I am Windows or OS X, I started to realize that there wasn't really all that much I needed Windows or OS X for, I could get everything I needed on Linux. Well, down the rabbit hole I went, and wiped my drive and Installed 11.04. After that, I installed VBox and downloaded different distros, played with a ton of different DE's, and eventually found what I'm running now, which is ArchBang/Openbox. Aside from some really small hiccups (getting bluetooth and autofs to work), I haven't hopped to another distro for almost 8 months now, which, for me, is a personal record.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:44:33 AM UTC-7, Douglas James wrote:

[Justin Brown]

After a LAN party in college, a bunch of my friends and myself had caught some malware. The one friend who hadn't been affected was using Linux. I asked him about it and he helped me install Ubuntu. Best man at my wedding, btw. Now,
​I use mostly Debian based distros. I think Arch users are a cult. :) However, I did like Archbang because of Open Box. Ended up using Crunchbang for a bit. Now I just run Mint with a minimal interface. 

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[Chase Timmons]

IIRC I discovered Linux at CSUB. Majored in computer science and we used Ubuntu. I was fascinated by the idea of an operating system other than Windoze and OSX. Had a partition with some flavor of Linux on every hard drive since.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:44:33 AM UTC-7, Douglas James wrote:

[David Schlesinger]

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:44:33 AM UTC-7, Douglas James wrote:

Out of curiosity, how many of you started using Linux on your own,  and how many of you began using Linux because your career required it?

When I started working at Palm in 2001, one of the first things I was asked to look into was a Linux distro aimed at embedded devices and "thin clients" from Lineo. Things went sort of south, commercially, when I asked both Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen about putting drivers we didn't own (but licensed under terms such that we couldn't release their source code under open source licenses) and got two completely different and contradictory answers.

About four years later, I was the engineering lead for putting Palm OS on Linux, which we actually accomplished (at Palmsource, which was a spin-off of Palm's software division — they were licensing Palm OS to other vendors, and that was weird), but were never able to get onto any devices that anyone could actually buy...

It's complicated. Today I run CentOS on servers; I run Mint, specialized distros like Parrot, and most recently, Gentoo on my desktop, and OpenWRT on devices that are smaller than a deck of playing cards. It'd be great if there were enough interest in Linux here in Bakersfield to get some meetings up and running. I'm game, let me know.