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+Episode: 937
+Title: HPR0937: How I started with linux
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0937/hpr0937.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-08 05:11:01
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+Hey everybody, it's Riddlebox again and today I'd like to talk to you about I guess it's
+more like tell you about how I got started with Linux.
+My story goes back to grade school actually.
+The first computer I ever played on was an Apple computer in grade school.
+We mostly just used them to play organ trail and wherein the world is Carmen San Diego.
+That was pretty much all I did on a computer all the way up until high school.
+My freshman year was 1994 and actually I had no interesting computers at all and I even
+paid other kids to type my papers for me.
+I remember typing in the computer lab and using WordPerfect I think everything being
+DOS based at the time or we were mostly in the DOS interface.
+I didn't really use the shell too much when it was 3.1 or anything and then in 1998 my
+senior year I had a teacher that told me if I wanted to do something during study
+hall she would give me a pass to go to the computer lab and create some
+pliers for.
+I reluctantly took that opportunity and went and started to learn a little bit about
+Microsoft Office.
+I think it was 95 and I just kept playing more and more with it and then that year we
+actually got our first computer in our house.
+It was an old Packard Bell IBM clone.
+I think it came with Windows 95 on it and then I bought Windows 98, the upgrade disk and
+upgraded it to 98 and started talking to people online.
+We actually had a 28-eighth connection, modem connection, dial up and I started reading
+a lot about computers and I found IRC and my step-sister who was also getting into computers
+and IRC at the same time started talking to people about Linux and we both looked into
+it and everything and she eventually faded away from it but I kept reading more and more
+on it and really liked the idea of free software and everything.
+Those days like I said before we had a 28-eighth modem connection and I spent my evenings
+talking on hash Linux help on free node and actually ended up talking to someone from
+the Philippines and I was telling them I would love to try Linux but couldn't download
+it because of our modem connection it would just never happen.
+He asked for my address and a couple weeks later I had received a CD in the mail with red
+hat 6.0 on it.
+I tried to install it a few times and had some problems getting it to work, getting
+acts to work, getting certain things to work and every time I would reinstall Windows again
+and then I would keep Windows around long enough until I figured out what minor issue
+I had with Linux and then I would reinstall Linux and kept just trying it eventually.
+I was able to get everything working even the dial-up modem worked.
+I was pretty excited I jumped online, went into IRC as root because I had never read
+anything telling me not to and right about that time a couple of minutes after I entered
+into hash Linux help and announced that I had finally gotten everything working on my
+Linux install, my computer quickly shut down and then I rebooted and checked everything
+and got back online and popped into IRC and my Linux box shut down again and I started
+looking into everything and found out that there were ports that I definitely needed
+to disable in order to stop people from being able to get into my system.
+So after that I pretty much stuck with Red Hat or went to Best Buy store here in the
+United States and actually purchased Red Hat 6.2, I think I paid $40 for the set which
+came with a sticker to put on your desk and that sticker had all these command line utilities
+and a short explanation of the utilities and that really helped me a lot actually still
+have this on my desk and I look at it quite a bit.
+From there you know I had a lot of trying times because it was the RTFM times of Linux
+or any time you asked a question you heard RTFM and that's it you know or really sharp
+answers people just didn't want to help you too much.
+It was a difficult time to learn it.
+I eventually ran into RPM hell with Red Hat and moved on to Slackware which I ran Slackware
+for a long long time and then moved on to LibreNet which was basically Debian that had a lot
+of utilities and a control panel to make life easier for you to administer it and sadly
+the main developer died and his son didn't keep the project going.
+Then I just started distro hopping, I tried Mandrake's juice, Red Hat, went back to Slack
+where I think I even tried Caldera or something like that.
+I ran College Linux for a while, started to actually get into their community and was
+working with them on a control panel like LibreNet had and that project just kind of fell
+apart but after that I went to a Ubuntu and I stayed on a Ubuntu for quite a while and
+I recently switched back to Fedora and I have no problems with Fedora, I actually like
+it better than Ubuntu and that's where I'm at right now.
+I just deal with Fedora and I'm happy and that's pretty much the story of how I got into
+Linux and what I've been doing lately so that's it, thank you and please contribute
+to HPR and help put some shows together.
+If you have any comments or anything, you can reach me at james.mitendorf.gmail.com.
+That's M-I-D-D-E-N-D-O-R-F-F, thank you.
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