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Episode: 797
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Title: HPR0797: How I got into linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0797/hpr0797.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 02:40:59
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AMAZING
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Hi, my name is Mike Engleek and I thought I'd record a quick show for Hacker Public Radio.
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I was at AgCamp 11 over the weekend just gone 13 for 14 for August and I was introduced
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to the joys of Hacker Public Radio from the display stand there so I thought I'd crack
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up my microphone, my rubbishy little pros and USB microphone and record a little something
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for Hacker Public Radio and I'm just going to record a little piece about how I got
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into Linux. It might be interesting for people, it may not, I don't know. It may serve as
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a lesson for us all but I first tried to get into Linux years ago with a red hat disk.
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We were talking before Fedora Core here, we were talking years ago and it was a PC format,
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disc or something like this and it had a Fedora or red hat disk on the front. I can remember
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vividly loading this disk and he's going to be brilliant. I've heard all about his Linux
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stuff, he's going to be ace. I've got a PC that I'd set aside especially for it, I'd
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managed to clean up and sort of build a Franken PC, you know, couple of bits together
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out of other PCs and I thought this would do and I installed it and I got a black screen
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with a cursor and I spent the next three hours trying to figure out how to add a user
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so I could log in to it and how to actually use the system I'd set up and in the end
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I became that disenfranchised with it, I turned it off, went back to Windows and stayed
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on Windows for a few years and it wasn't until about 2007 something like that that I was
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introduced to Linux by a then colleague Tim Brown, he was a big Ubuntu user and said
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you need to try this Ubuntu desktop, it's really cool, you've tried Linux before but this
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is ace and he was not wrong, I've been using Ubuntu ever since so I've been here since
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I've been using Ubuntu since 606 so I've been using it for a while now and it's just great,
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I'm recording this on a little ace respire one netbook running, well it's Ubuntu 1104, my main
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desktop in the office is running Ubuntu 1004 and my laptop, I say my laptop, the wife and
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mine's laptop, we share that custody of a laptop, it's 50% Windows, 50% Linux but when
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I boot it, it boots Linux and boots 1104, so that's how I got into Linux anyway, so hopefully
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I'm going to be submitting a few more shows, I've got an idea for a show that I want to
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pitch through to the hacker and geek community and see if I can harness the power of the
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geek crowd, but yeah, so cool, thanks a lot, that you hide it when you start recording
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and machine looks.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Republic Radio, for more information on the show and
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how to contribute your own shows visit hackerpublicradio.org.
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