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Hello everyone, my name is Gordon. I caught the linux bug around 1993 or 1994, not long after Slackware was released on ftp.cdrom.com (Walnut Creek). I remember it took me ...
  1. 02-11-2006 #1
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    Greetings everyone.

    Hello everyone, my name is Gordon.

    I caught the linux bug around 1993 or 1994, not long after Slackware was released on ftp.cdrom.com (Walnut Creek). I remember it took me several weeks to download just the basic packages on my blazing fast 14,400 baud modem, and it took well over 50 floppy disks (let's just say I lost count after 50). The first kernel I remember is 1.2.1, so I guess I've been at this a long time, but I'm still learning a lot.

    I've tried other distributions of linux (RedHat, Mandrake, Caldera among them), but I've been most happy with Slackware, because it's very basic and doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but yet has the abillity for the user to add bells and whistles at their discretion. I've enjoyed watching it evolve over the years.

    I taught myself to program C and C++ in Linux by debugging someone else's "talker" code. I remember it was over 60,000 lines of code and the person that coded it had turned off all compiler warnings. Needless to say, it was far from stable. So I started by turning the compiler flags on and it turned out that in a 60,000 line program, there were about 50,000 compiler errors/warnings. This is how I learned C, by debugging a VERY buggy code.
    I'm currently teaching myself to code in C# so that I can make Windows applications and maybe some applications for the web later.

    I don't pretend to know everything, because I don't. I hope, however, that my knowledge of what I have learned can be helpful to others on this forum. I remember when I started out, there WAS NO HELP ANYWHERE, it was a painful process of trying to find out for myself. Hopefully, I can spare someone else some of that same kind of pain and frustration.

    Sincerely,

    Gordon E.
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  2. 02-11-2006 #2
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    Welcome to the forums, grellsworth... hope you have fun here and visit often!
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    Welcome to the forums grellsworth, enjoy yourself here.
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    welcome grellsworth, that's an impressive history with linux you've got there. i look forward to seeing you around the forums
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