Sometime in late 92 or 93 I downloaded a copy of Linux from a BBS onto 13 floppy disks. I was able to get it installed and running, but since the only exposure I had had to a unix command line was from using the internet I remember sitting there not knowing what to do next. Eventually I started poking around and saw some reference to an alpha version of xwindows so I got to work installing that. After some hours X was working and I was again in unfamiliar territory, staring at a black and white screen with an X cursor that would move around with my mouse. Eventually I got the one X app that was included in the distro running. It was a 3D wireframe app where you could draw shapes and articulate them. About the time I finished making a wireframe snake that was pretty cool, I noticed that I was bleeding from my eyes and ears so it was time to quit.
From then on I made it a point to check out a version of Linux a couple of times a year. Finally, after 15 years of checking it out, I switch over from $MS Windows and started using Ubuntu as my main OS last fall.
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Sometime in late 92 or 93 I downloaded a copy of Linux from a BBS onto 13 floppy disks. I was able to get it installed and running, but since the only exposure I had had to a unix command line was from using the internet I remember sitting there not knowing what to do next. Eventually I started poking around and saw some reference to an alpha version of xwindows so I got to work installing that. After some hours X was working and I was again in unfamiliar territory, staring at a black and white screen with an X cursor that would move around with my mouse. Eventually I got the one X app that was included in the distro running. It was a 3D wireframe app where you could draw shapes and articulate them. About the time I finished making a wireframe snake that was pretty cool, I noticed that I was bleeding from my eyes and ears so it was time to quit. From then on I made it a point to check out a version of Linux a couple of times a year. Finally, after 15 years of checking it out, I switch over from $MS Windows and started using Ubuntu as my main OS last fall.