eric pareja wrote:
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> What got you started in Linux?
browsed an article on the web somewhere about linux, back in 1997 or 98.
got myself a copy of RH5/5.1 from greenhills and tried it out on our pII
233 at home.
> Who influenced you into using Linux, if any?
nobody.
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> Where did you first learn about Linux?
at home, browsing. later i bought a cd set from greenhills.
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> How did you get your copy of Linux?
as i said, greenhills. soon after that, my sister in the states gave me
an original boxed set of RH 5.2.
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> When did you first hear about Linux?
1996 or 97. the company i was with then was trying to establish a sister
company ISP and they used linux. i thought it was a "toy" OS back then!
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> When did you actually use Linux for the first time?
97 or 98. i'm a little fuzzy on the exact dates because nobody really
taught me, and i can't associate any clear conversation to go with a
face to go with a time.... etc... no memory cues to go with any specific
dates....
ay waitaminute, i just remembered... i saw a box of RH 4.x at national
bookstore, of all places. read print on the box, got curious about it,
but not enough to actually push me to buy the box. it just got me
curious enough to browse about linux later at home. upon browsing, i
learned RH5.x was already out, so i went out and got myself a cd set
from greenhills later...
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> When did you install Linux on your own 'puter?
1998
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> Why did you decide to try Linux out?
at the time (98) i wanted to learn more about networking, servers, and
programming in a server environment, as opposed to programming client
software for a database backend -- it was the height of VB, and i was
sick of it! i didn't consider clicking and dragging controls as
programming at all; and i still dont!
on the other hand, the fact that linux already came with a C compiler
really got me hooked! in the M$ world, unless you're already working as
a programmer, you have no money to buy a compiler to practice on. kaya
nga nag-aaral ang tao ng programming para magkatrabaho para magkapera,
tapos bago ka pa makapag-umpisa, kelangan may pera ka muna para maka
bumili ka ng Visual C++! the free compiler that went with the free OS
pretty much made me drool over linux.
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> Why do you still use Linux? or Why do you no longer use Linux?
at work, i have no choice; we're a microsoft junkie company, i only get
a linux project only once every couple of million years.. at home, my
wife, who isn't a techie, can't use linux as a substitute for a desktop,
and i only have a small notebook at home; the other PCs are strictly
speaking, not ours. the small notebook pretty much rules out a
dual-boot system because its only got a 4GB hd, and well... masikip na
kung dalawa pa OS nya...
recently though, medyo napipikon na ako dahil palagi nag-ha-hang yung
W2K sa notebook ko (AMD K6-2 450MHz), even with SP2 and 160MB memory!
(long story how i wound up with W2K on my notebook) if this keeps up,
i'll get that newfangled mandrake 8.0 and install it! i'll just have to
find time to teach my wife to use KDE/GNOME and staroffice! :-)
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> What is your favorite thing about Linux?
compilers! servers! and its free!
i really like the fact that linux provides a rich development
environment. although i'm no expert in PERL or Python or PHP, just
knowing that these tools are there for me anytime that i finally get
around to try them out... well, i like it! hindi sya maramot; it doesn't
ask me to shell out money to learn them. linux is kind to me, and i'm
kind to linux!
also, it was with linux that the whole TCP/IP networking thing finally
made sense to me. in a corporate environment, unless you were the sysad,
you would have absolutely no opportunity to study networking on your own
-- they would never allow a rank-and-file programmer grunt any
Administrator access to their servers! with linux, i had a server at
home that i could play around with, until i gradually learned stuff
about networking that i would not have learned in a corporate M$
environment. the fact that linux already came with server software was a
big plus for me.
i also like the HOW-TOs and the man pages. they're way clearer than MSDN
Library. sometimes i get the impression that the authors of MSDN
deliberately used confusing, convoluted explanations so that only
microsoft would understand microsoft (monopoly of knowledge?). dunno,
maybe i'm just paranoid. but to put this in perspective, keep in mind
that i program in a microsoft environment at work, so i live and breathe
Windows NT, VC++, MTS and MSDN everyday.
yun lang po. hope my rants prove helpful.
regards,
joel realubit
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