I can't honestly remember when I first used Linux. It may have been in 1997 when I was running a Samba server at $work on Red Hat. Or it may have been slightly before that at home. I felt like I was on the verge of breaking stuff all the time.
joel garry
· 6 months ago
You haven't been devirginized until you've been rootkitted.
I lost my virginity after meeting two bearded, leather-clad old bikers in a hotel at Heathrow Airport in 2001. Oh, wait, my Linux virginity.... actually, that's just how it happened!
They set us up with a Linux network where I worked, using Suse Linux, I think. They were hopeless, really. All we wanted was a cheaper way to surf the net, email and do basic word-processing and design our own posters and leaflets. I'll never forget when they came down to teach us all how to get started. They kept going on about root this and root that, may as well have been speaking Chinese.
The network never really worked and we had to keep using Windows to get email. It would have been so easy for them to set up our pop email on Linux, like any other OS, but we didn't know how to do it and they didn't do it for us. They were nice enough guys, but couldn't really get their heads around what we needed and wanted so instead gave us what they wanted. I ended up suing them in the Small Claims Court.
That did put me off Linux for a while, although I realised it wasn't anything to do with Linux itself. I bought a new Dell PC for home with XP and quite enjoyed breaking it a few times before finally getting fed up with it. I got Ubuntu Hoary Ship-It CDs and installed in early 2005, I think, and haven't looked back since, although I still use Windows in Virtualbox or now I dual-boot.
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I can't honestly remember when I first used Linux. It may have been in 1997 when I was running a Samba server at $work on Red Hat. Or it may have been slightly before that at home. I felt like I was on the verge of breaking stuff all the time.
Oracle could simply say they will only support on certain unmodified linux versions, although that would be a copout. - me, 10 years ago.
They set us up with a Linux network where I worked, using Suse Linux, I think. They were hopeless, really. All we wanted was a cheaper way to surf the net, email and do basic word-processing and design our own posters and leaflets. I'll never forget when they came down to teach us all how to get started. They kept going on about root this and root that, may as well have been speaking Chinese.
The network never really worked and we had to keep using Windows to get email. It would have been so easy for them to set up our pop email on Linux, like any other OS, but we didn't know how to do it and they didn't do it for us. They were nice enough guys, but couldn't really get their heads around what we needed and wanted so instead gave us what they wanted. I ended up suing them in the Small Claims Court.
That did put me off Linux for a while, although I realised it wasn't anything to do with Linux itself. I bought a new Dell PC for home with XP and quite enjoyed breaking it a few times before finally getting fed up with it. I got Ubuntu Hoary Ship-It CDs and installed in early 2005, I think, and haven't looked back since, although I still use Windows in Virtualbox or now I dual-boot.