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+Episode: 750
+Title: HPR0750: My path to Linux
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0750/hpr0750.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-08 01:53:13
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+
+Before going in.
+Hi, I'm the new age techno hippie, and I'm recording my first show for Hacker Public
+Radio.
+It's going to be my path to Linux, and hopefully in the future I will be able to do more shows
+on Linux and the things that I do that I would consider hacking.
+So for my path to Linux, it started in 1995.
+I was at the end of my high school career, and I had really only experienced Microsoft
+operating systems.
+I had used DOS and basic in school for programming simple little things, and it also used Windows
+311 and 95 and word processing products.
+I used the Corral word perfect application a lot, and a little bit of experience with
+the Microsoft works and word products as well.
+So when I was handed the disks and my friend told me, you have to check out this new operating
+system.
+It's called Linux.
+Here's these red hat disks.
+I was like, okay, whatever.
+So I went home and I tried it out, and it was interesting.
+It wasn't usable, but it was interesting.
+And the portion of me that was very hacker mentality said, you know, boy, I should really
+keep on tinkering with this.
+So I did.
+And while I was never able to get the X Windows server running, which I think was kind
+of a common problem back then for a lot of people, I was able to get it installed.
+I didn't delete my entire hard drive, which was a bonus, and I was able to play around
+with it.
+So I eventually started up after I got into college and got settled in a little bit,
+a dual boot system between Red Hat and Windows using Lilo.
+And I would tinker with Red Hat.
+I got the X server running and started to check out Window Maker.
+And when I started to check out Window Maker, I thought it was very different and a very
+unique experience, but I was still looking for something a little bit more comfortable
+for me.
+I settled on FVWM and that worked out pretty well.
+I was able to check out all the X Windows applications from there and had a good time playing around
+with Linux in general.
+I wasn't able to use it for my daily needs yet.
+I was stuck doing a lot of school projects that required Windows only software at the
+time, and I still like to play video games quite a bit and really didn't know how to make
+them work under Linux.
+So I kept on going through school, eventually graduated, and got a job for a company.
+Many though used Microsoft for almost all of their needs.
+I did get to check out some very interesting older hardware and I learned about deck computers
+and back systems and those operating systems, and I also learned about real-time operating
+systems with things like VX works and also did a little bit of microprocessor programming
+in assembly.
+It was all very interesting, but I had to learn a lot of Windows too.
+I was administering some Windows servers and doing web development for Microsoft's web
+server and web-based applications that would interact with some of our real-time systems.
+So I wound up learning a lot of Microsoft specific products, Microsoft SQL Server, and things
+that you would find in the Microsoft developer network subscriptions, but when I got
+laid off from that company, I got to address my real interest, which was Linux.
+I wiped off my computer and installed Red Hat 9 as the majority operating system that
+I was going to use and made it my default choice as an operating system.
+I was really impressed with Red Hat 9.
+It gave me all the functionality that I was looking for, and because I was laid off,
+I had lots of time to learn everything that I didn't know already.
+So I learned how to use Wine to run video games, I learned how to use Open Office, I learned
+how to use all the other applications that came along with it.
+I learned a lot of the new applications by reading through Linux format that exposed
+me to a lot of new applications that I might not have found just sort of searching around.
+It was a great introduction to the Linux community.
+Now when Red Hat decided that they were going to go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
+that the only community offering they were going to have was going to be Fedora, I started
+to look for new distributions, something else that I could sort of latch onto, because
+I liked the whole sense of community, even though I wasn't really involved in it.
+And I also liked the stability that Red Hat had provided, but that stability really
+wasn't there with Fedora.
+It took a couple of releases before Fedora kind of got stable again and got its feet
+underneath of it.
+So I was looking for something else that was different.
+Now I stayed with Fedora as my primary desktop, and I was on Linux pretty much 100% of the
+time by this point.
+I had no windows installed at all on my computer after upgrading to Fedora, but Fedora wasn't
+running 100% smooth for me either.
+I tried Sousa, I tried Debian, I tried Mandriva, I tried Gentoo and Slackware, and probably
+several other distributions that I can't remember.
+But I never found anything that really took the place of Fedora.
+I was comfortable with Fedora, I just wasn't particularly 100% happy.
+So I kept on looking around, and eventually Linux format ran a special magazine a while
+back that had a whole bunch of different distributions and sort of a comparison between
+them and who they were for.
+So by this point, I would say that I was definitely identified as a power user of Linux.
+I'm not a developer for any open source software, and I don't really contribute yet.
+I'm looking to get into it in the future, but I'm awfully tied up with my kids and my
+day-to-day stuff that I'm not really open to being able to do much development at this
+point, although I'm looking to get into more.
+So I looked at this review and found Arch Linux, and Arch Linux is a wonderful distribution
+if you haven't tried it in your power user, and you like having the latest and greatest
+stuff that's actually stable, but the ability to tinker as much as you want, and Arch Linux
+is probably a very good lineup for you.
+They have a user repository, a wonderful wiki, and the ability for any of the users to upload
+packages you want, and you can maintain that package for your own needs, and other people
+benefit from that too, and it's a very wonderful system.
+So I use that on my desktop and my laptop, and I have Memo 5 for my phone, which is an
+900, wonderful phone, even though Nokia is really tanked lately with their support for
+open source by bowing down to the Microsoft machine, but hopefully somebody else will
+step up and take up the moniker for releasing a good open source type phone like the N900.
+Alright, well thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoyed the show, and I'll try
+and do some more in the future.
+Thank you for listening to Hacker Republic Radio.
+For more information on the show and how to contribute your own shows, visit Hacker Republic
+Radio.org.