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Episode: 4052
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Title: HPR4052: How I got in to Linux / Micro Edition
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4052/hpr4052.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:03:03
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4152 for Tuesday the 13th of February 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, How I Got Into Linux Micro Edition.
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It is the first show by Newhost Geospart and is about five minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is a slightly boring story of my introduction into Linux.
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How I got started in Linux, the Micro Edition.
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Hi, my name is George Dasha, online known as Geospart.
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How I got started in Linux, I was working at IBM Slash Radio Shack.
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I had a part-time job at Radio Shack in upstate New York.
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I was using OS2Warp at the time and I was really liking OS2Warp.
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I've supplied free by IBM, I guess.
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We had done a switchover to using Windows.
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We had some Windows 311 and Windows 95 systems coming in.
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I was not liking Windows so much.
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Somebody had given me a copy of Windows to use on a home PC.
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Not really super impressed, I kept crashing it and doing bad things to it.
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One night I'm working at Radio Shack before my third shift at IBM.
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I was describing how I really was not a fan of Windows.
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One of the guys working there told me about Red Hat.
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He told me you could buy it at Electronics Boutique, which was also in the mall I was working at.
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I went down, I think I paid $50 for Red Hat.
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Five point one, I still have the discs and book here somewhere.
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I installed it and I've been using Linux ever since.
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Now on and off, I was doing both.
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I was ambidextrous, so I would have some Windows systems and some Linux systems.
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Primarily these days, in the last couple of years,
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I'm at home, I'm 100% Linux.
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At work, I had to use Windows because, you know, they use Windows.
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At home, I've been primarily using Linux.
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I'm going to save for 12 years.
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I don't think I've had a Windows systems in my house in at least 12 years.
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I mean, other than a virtual box for testing or other things, but I haven't.
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If I buy a system and it has Windows on it,
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Windows lasts as long as I can back it up to USB disc and then toss it into a drawer and then put Linux on.
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My Linux is in order, pretty much, have been Red Hat.
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A distro known as Lucorus after Red Hat.
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I was using that. It was nice.
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It was simple.
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Let's see, after Lucorus, I used Open ZUSA.
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And then Ubuntu for a bit until Unity.
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And then when Unity was introduced into Ubuntu back in the day,
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I switched Mint on a friend's recommendation because I was upset with Unity.
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And I've been on Mint ever since.
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So around the time when Unity came in, I switched to Mint.
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Now I test other distros and I still have one or two systems in Open ZUSA,
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mostly servers, but everything else, all my desktops, my laptops,
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my walk around systems are all Linux Mint.
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I've just upgraded to 21.3, which is the latest, I think that's Veronica,
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and got the Elvis Costello song going through my head.
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But that's me. That's my Linux journey starting in the mid 90s up until now.
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Not much to say. I'm more or less, I would put myself as an advanced user.
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I'm going to do a little bit of coding, but nothing crazy.
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I worked for developers at IBM, but I didn't develop specifically for them.
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I know how to, but I didn't. And that's it.
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Oh, and some other personal journeys to nothing too great.
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But at IBM, also the stuff I did is now museum worthy.
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I mean, it was a Lotus admin. I did Lotus 4.5, 4.6, as far as being certified.
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I was Blackberry certified, T2.
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I think that was 2003, 4 somewhere in that time.
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And I still have the certificate somewhere around here, but those are museum pieces.
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Nobody does this stuff anymore.
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New OS 2, OS 2 Warp.
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What else?
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Mainframe, MBS. I did a lot of stuff in MBS.
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Multivideo system.
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I don't know. Just things, tech things.
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But I'm old now, so I just stick with mint. It's easy.
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And I could just do the stuff.
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Well, thanks. I'm trying to submit a show here, so hopefully this is too boring for you guys.
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Have a good one. Thanks for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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Attribution 4.0 International License.
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