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Episode: 1487
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Title: HPR1487: How I Found Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1487/hpr1487.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 04:00:20
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Hello HPR, this is Lyle, better known online as X1101, coming to you from North East
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Linux Fest 2014, where I did a live interview, where I promised to do my first episode.
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So here is the obligatory how I got into Linux.
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Now, 2002, I started using a bunch of different live CDs on already aged hardware.
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I remember damn small Linux and noppicks, and I may have even had a slackware install on
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a really old beige box tower from the time.
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And I used those often on for instant messaging and some web browsing.
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I didn't really know what I was doing, but used it anyway.
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Then did whatever, you know, high school aged geek at the time was doing and built myself
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a computer, had Windows XP on it.
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Unfortunately, it was not a legitimate version of Windows XP and stopped working.
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So, you know, having this excellent computer with no operating system on it, I talked to
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one of my buddies, who was a Linux user at the time already, and found out about it,
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and he handed me a new Ubuntu CD.
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I've done some digging, and I think it was Ubuntu 506 that maybe even earlier than that.
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Use that often on for year or two, went to college, got another computer and fought often
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on, getting Fedora working on that, always had little bit of trouble with the X display
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on Fedora, not recognizing my cursor at boot, and so had to do the reconfiguring X to make
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it work.
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But, you know, not too bad.
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Through college, I used Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, did a little bit of work with Backtrack,
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and still do booting to Windows for some required coursework and gaming.
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I hadn't really figured out why, and at the time, why wasn't around, wasn't very good.
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And then, you know, graduated, got a job, supporting Windows, wasn't doing a lot with Linux.
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At least not in my professional life.
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About that time, I started, pulled up a pod catcher, hadn't heard of podcasts, wasn't listening
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to any podcasts, decided I wanted something Linux related to keep me going, pulled up,
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and it was G-Potter, looked at the suggestions list, and found Linux outlaws, and that's
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kind of how I found the wider free and open source community of which I'm really, really
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glad I did.
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I've met some of the best people I know, and some other people, there.
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Since then, I've added a bunch of other shows to my list.
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Of course, Hacker Public Radio, I've been listening for about a year now, and decided
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I owed the community a show.
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Not that long ago, about two years ago, I made the Switch to Arch Linux, and so now I've
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got Arch on all of my computers.
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I'm running it on a desktop that, again, I built.
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I am running it on an ASPIRE 1.
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I'm running it on my Raspberry Pi, and I'm running it on my newly refurbished MacBook.
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So I'm definitely an Arch user in my personal life.
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I'm also a Linux engineer, and have been for about four years.
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Done a lot of work with Red Hat and Red Hat family distributions, supporting things like
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Astrisk and DNS, and all kinds of services, more than I can even really remember.
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That's really about all of how I got into Linux.
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Stay tuned.
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I may record future episodes on other things that may be of interest to hackers.
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Until then, this is X1101, saying stay free, stay open, and misbehave.
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