Why I Love Linux
Thirteen years ago, when I first installed Linux, I didn't realize how it'd shape my future.
I was wandering around in the magazine section of a local book store looking at the video game magazines. Back in the day, these rags came with CDs full of demos for the latest, greatest games, and I was looking for new fodder to keep me busy. Someone misfiled a copy of a Linux magazine that included a CD with a copy of… Slackware, I think? I had read on the internet that Linux was a "hacker's OS", and I had decided that when I grew up, I wanted to "hack the planet". Intrigued, I bought the magazine and took it home.
My family had two computers in the house at that time -- one was a snappy 300mhz Dell that had access to the internet over an extremely expensive cable connection, while the other was our aged 486DX2 over clocked to a Pentium running at 83mhz. The latter had no internet access, but when I told my parents I wanted to install this Linux thing and it required a reformat, they immediately pointed to the older computer.
It was most frustrating install of my life, but I wasn't about to let it get the best of me.
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
- 1585 reads
- PDF version
More in Tux Machines
- Highlights
- Front Page
- Latest Headlines
- Archive
- Recent comments
- All-Time Popular Stories
- Hot Topics
- New Members
digiKam 7.7.0 is releasedAfter three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. |
Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
|
Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future TechThe metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. |
today's howtos
|
Linux is bad for marriages!
All of my friends who have switched to Linux have gotten divorced because they get too involved with it and not enough with their spouses!
ahem...
That's why my wife runs Linux, too!! (and insisted it be the sole OS on her new laptop, after playing with windows for only a few hours!)