How long have you been running Linux?

[Rubberman]

Love and keeping 9.04 in my machine too basically for the same reason.



Gosh...That's why you're good. You've been using computers way before I used my first calculator.

Actually, I started with mainframes back in engineering school in the 60's. You know, where you keypunch a bunch of fortran code onto Hollerith cards, put a rubber band around them, give them to some guy behind a glass window, and get them back the next day with a printout saying you had a syntax error on card 52...

[TwiNight]

Started using Linux two years ago. Since then I have tried Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE. Currently using Slackware 13.1 on desktop and intend to use Arch on my laptop.

I have windows on both the systems. So dual-booting.

Leave Linux??? Hell no! Can't even think about it.

[arespi]

Actually, I started with mainframes back in engineering school in the 60's. You know, where you keypunch a bunch of fortran code onto Hollerith cards, put a rubber band around them, give them to some guy behind a glass window, and get them back the next day with a printout saying you had a syntax error on card 52...

I almost used those too, but when I got in the university, they have just removed the punch-card readers (for cobol) and added CRT terminals to the old VAX they let the students use, also there were some new 286 PC's .

From memory lane, I worked at this company's site in the 80's - 90's , started basically as a tape jockey, remember those reel tape units?, now, get off of my lawn!

[PrinceSharma]

So, 30 years Unix, 10 years Linux have passed under my belt.

Darn! I must have born twice in that time

[Rubberman]

Darn! I must have born twice in that time

Yeah. I've definitely earned my Geezerdom. I'm also a founding member of the Geezerati!

[PrinceSharma]

Geezerati!

Ha Ha, Geezerati -> Senior citizens who either are, or think they are, still hip and cool....
That suits you

[atreyu]

Oh, let's see...I first downloaded Red Hat Linux 4.something to a dozen or so floppies back in the late 90s on a blazing fast 28.8k connection. Slightly more painful than Win98 at the time, so I didn't exactly dive right in, but I had a spare crappy PC always running some version of RH so I could tinker and learn.

By RH6.2 I was hooked, though, and had Linux routers/servers running at home and was finding ways to introduce it into my Windows/NetWare world at work. Since then I've been a dedicated RHEL/CentOS/Fedora user, though I dabble in Debian-based distros (esp. for embedded stuff) when I don't think anybody is looking...

[Farmer Mike]

This month will make 5 years. My hard drive with Windows 98 died and MS had quit supporting 98. I figured the restore disk wouldn't work and was too cheap to buy Windows NT, so I tried Red Hat 7.2 that I had experimented with. It worked, so I went to a more recent distro, and have used Linux since.

[Lakshmipathi]

Its 8 years now,all began in 2003 , Fedora core 2. On my first desktop computer still carries Linux along with Windows. Always Linux.

[sgosnell]

Gosh...That's why you're good. You've been using computers way before I used my first calculator.

I still remember the first electronic calculator I ever saw. The chemistry department at college bought it. It was about the size of a large tower case, cost about $5,000 in 1965 dollars, and was amazingly fast at adding and subtracting, when compared to the mechanical adding machines we had been using. 10 or so years ago I bought a two-pack of credit-card sized calculators that did the same job as that one, for $5. Back then, the college had a computer. One. It had its own building.