[labe williams]

I was introduced to linux by my friend who work in space centre he gave so mach materials for free that i couldn't resist to be in love with it. just three months old with linux i fill all operating system should be in linux, men i love linux!!!!!

[kveldulf980]

Hmm, I got into it years ago, I think it had to be 1996. I was in high school and installed Slackware 3 on our 486. My parents were uber-pissed but I got it to the point where they could use it for what they needed back then, which was pretty much nothing (incidentally, I'm not really sure why we even had a computer back then to begin with since neither of my parents ever bothered using it). Anywho, it was much fun, there was something about the problem solving experience of getting drivers to work, editing configs properly, etc. that just appealed to me. I am in grad school now (math), and I use Fedora 9 Beta (just updated from alpha) on my laptop. As a side note, I still have that 486 in my mom's garage and it still has Slack on it. I might just go dig it up now...


P.S. SAGE is the best math package of all time.

[labe williams]

Is being a wonderful thing to have people out there who actualy love each other because we share a common interest "LINUX" .But i do have a big problem loading Linux on my Lenovo laptop 3000 N200.In an attempt to make it work at all cost the Linux refuse to see my BIOS is there no way out this cart.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by labe williams

Is being a wonderful thing to have people out there who actualy love each other because we share a common interest "LINUX" .But i do have a big problem loading Linux on my Lenovo laptop 3000 N200.In an attempt to make it work at all cost the Linux refuse to see my BIOS is there no way out this cart.

Please post a thread on this in the appropriate section of the forum. I would suggest "Linux on Laptops". If you are unsure how to post your own threads, take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ages-here.html
and for more general knowledge (including how to ask good questions) see this:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ead-first.html

We look forward to hearing from you.

[dalinux_n00bie]

I came home from a camp-out and my father told me a friend stopped by and told me to try this thing called "SUSE Linux". It was version 9.1. I Had heard a lot about linux, particularly SUSE because my father was doing business with Novell at the time. I installed it on an older computer that my father brought from work and tested it out. I didn't do much because i didn't have an internet connection. so after a while of playing around with it, i installed it on my main machine, only to find out that wireless support, especially at the time, was horrendous. I lost intrest in Linux for a while, but then i got really really mad at windows XP for something, and did some searching. I found that you could download ISO's for free on the web, and i downloaded my first real distro, SUSE 10.1 which had much better wireless support, but it was then that i relized, after much searching, that broadcom was a pain to get to work. I finnally got my broadcom wireless to work, and was linux only on my box for about 3ish years.
I Dual boot XP, for games, and Kubuntu right now, because I found the Debian packaging to be faster and more efficient, and KDE is my favorite DE. So Kubuntu for efficency, and XP for gaming.

[Kaste]

Tried Linux 6 years ago with some arcane Gentoo version. I installed it in VMware because i just wanted to try it. I don't think i ever really succeeded in installing it. It was a little tough on beginners back then. It quickly vanished because it didn't look useful.

3 years ago Xp fried my hard drive almost taking all my data into nirvana and i got so mad i installed suse. I kept fiddling with it, started dualbooting and experimented.

2 months later Suse seemed boring and slow and i wanted to know what else there is so I got back into Gentoo and i have used it since, fiddling and tweaking it till it became a masterpiece. Even though it still dual booted, booting into windows became so rare it was hardly worth mentioning.

roughly 4 months ago two things happened. My laptops graphics card blew up and i became the administrator of about 10 debian servers and i actually like them i realised .

As soon as I get another computer I will try out something new, maybe Fedora or slackware.

[MikeTbob]

Originally Posted by Kaste

Tried Linux 6 years ago with some arcane Gentoo version. I installed it in VMware because i just wanted to try it. I don't think i ever really succeeded in installing it. It was a little tough on beginners back then. It quickly vanished because it didn't look useful.

My goodness! I don't think you could have picked a more difficult Distro to start with, I'm surprised that you were able to get past this and continue using Linux. Good Luck to you.

[pcxman]

I went into a software store and I wanted to try something new and thats when I found 6.0 mandrake it didn't work as well I liked.

And now suse 10.3 rocks for me!!!!!

[raghaven.kumar]

Ya How i got into linux??
hmm......
Well, when i was doing my post graduation i was having a linux labs.
though it was having a Graphical environment which i wasnt able to make thorugh.
I liked the terminal command execution unlike windows.
Forgot the name of distro used then!
but after then i was having UNIX labs, in which shell programming, the advanced permission and much stuff all got me well into it.
Then about a couple of months later, i got a Mandrake 9.2 packaged with a PC magazine. I installed it on my PC.
Then after Linux was a thing too cool for me.(though there wasnt many apps for linux at that time)
After that i moved all through the Fedoras, RHEL and finally now to Ubuntu.

It got me much that i had even completed an RHCE recently to get a certification in Linux.

[jayd512]

Up until about 3 years ago, I had never even heard the word 'Linux'. I happened to overhear a co-worker at the time talking about it and decided to Google it. After a couple of weeks of occasional reading, I decided to download DSL and Knoppix. A friend gave me a LiveCD of Ubuntu 6.06 to play around with. Ever since then, I've really started to enjoy messing with it. It was only about 6 months ago, however, that I really got into trying to seriously tweak anything to make it 'mine'.

I got a lot of learning to do, and I'm looking forward to every bit of it!