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Episode: 718
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Title: HPR0718: How I got into Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0718/hpr0718.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 01:27:04
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And today I'm going to start naming it a real one,
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the articles that keeps you going with it.
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You know, this is exhausting as,
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why I created this,
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and how it actually works.
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And when I'm asked to follow this rocky design,
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it's very difficult.
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But I know you're all trying to smelled it.
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So why is it very difficult?
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It is...
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Hello, this is Sean Campbell, aka Brother Red.
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My mom says it's pronounced camp bell, but I say it looks like the soup, so I'll make
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it sound like the soup.
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This is how I got into Linux, GNU Linux.
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I got into Linux by way of a slow revealing of a whole world of different software than
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I was used to.
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It might have started when I was running Windows 98, and listening to a Chicago-based sports
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talk show, late in the hours of the night, that is because the host of the show had a huge
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fan who made a website for him, and so the show ended up having a web form, IRC chat,
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and even fantasy sports.
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This was about 2001 or two I think.
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Anyway, the guy did all of the work and hosted the website with all his components at his
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house and used Linux to power it all.
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But actually, my slow recognition of forest Linux had a lot to do with Red Hat 9, which
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I got in, which I had started running some time before the radio show.
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I bought the Red Hat 9 with a PC magazine, I can't remember the name, but I was thrilled
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with the fact that I was able to install a free operating system.
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The problem was that I could not get online with it as I had dial up internet at the time.
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I had dial up internet issues continued to be a real issue for me for some years.
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Since then, I have been on many different distros, and I did not decide to go full-blown
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Linux until the Fedora Core 6 or 7 days.
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But then I was running PC Linux OS, but I can't remember the version.
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I still sometimes date my current Linux experience by the Fedora Core 6 or Fedora that's
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out.
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My experience with Linux has not all been rosy.
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I was an AM band from the PC Linux OS, IRC, and Forms, for telling a very nice person
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to f off, but I did not do that, and I never would, especially in a moderated chat.
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My insistence that I did not do any such thing got me booted from the Forms as well.
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Having my PC help and answers community pulled from me is the cost of not doing what is said
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that I did.
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I still love Linux, GNU Linux, especially, and have been calling the evangelist for
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it.
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I'm on Manjava, and all as well.
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Mostly what I do with my computer now is play games, and I do download torrents, movie
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torrents and stuff, but mostly it's just playing games a little bit audio editing.
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Video editing.
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My biggest successes with Linux have been encoding songs from a really obscure and admittedly
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proprietary codec to MP3 or AUG or whatever was needed to be.
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Or recording songs from a tape, and then editing them on my computer, and I was able
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to do that with a recent song for my pastor.
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It was a watch the lamb, and we actually downloaded, watched the lamb video of a play
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about Jewish father and a son's going to Jerusalem for sacrifice, and I removed that and
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inserted silence into that video, and then took the recording that I had made and edited
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and pasted that in to the video, and before I did that I actually had to speed up the timing
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of the song for six seconds.
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And I make it much simpler, I make it sound much simpler now, but I had to learn the
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hard way at each step of the process pretty much.
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That's why a lot of things are with me in Linux, and that's why I tend to spam easier
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to use distros, and I haven't traveled very far from my home base, which was DRPM, back
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with Red Hat 9.
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Well, that's my experience and heart aches and joy, really, a joy, much more joy with Linux
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than there is with any other operating system I do believe.
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That's me, and that's me who's have a good one, and thanks for listening to Hacker Public
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Radio.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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