This ship set sail in 1992. I’ve been referencing this very checklist for at least 20 years when debating being dismissively yelled at by conservatives. Everybody thought I was nuts.
This ship set sail in 1992. I’ve been referencing this very checklist for at least 20 years when debating being dismissively yelled at by conservatives. Everybody thought I was nuts.
Well, I was an Amiga user. That was already unix-like, preemptive multitasking, etc. It was fading fast in the early nineties, and while i was already working in I.T., I was not interrsted in using Windows 3.11 and 95, so I began playing with Slackware Linux. I figured it was a good way to get comfortable with “real” I.T…
I learned Bash and had to compile most of the software i wanted to try. Since, like all programmers, I’m lazy, I wrote some simple scripts to build the code and make them into packages (tgz) for Slackware. This took tedium out of the work, and i could use the packkage manager to install and remove them.
Those were rough days for desktop users, though. I really had to use windows when i needed to pass output to “normies”. I tried several window manager and desktops, and eventually landed on Ubuntu.