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What made you think of using *Nix?

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Doctor V:
Started using it bacuse I wanted to try somthing different.  And later because I found out how much better it is than M$ win and also because my hatred of M$ has exploded with the release of the worlds most useless OS upgrade, XP.

V

hm_murdock:
the fact that a guy at school told me I should use it and he gave me then brand-fucking-new Slackware 3 or something. then a few years later, a different guy in High school told me to use it and he gave me then brand-fucking-new Red Hat 5 and I liked it.

voidmain:
I was a mainframe programmer (MVS/TSO/VM). In our office we also had this old ATT 3B2 running ATT UNIX. It ran an old copy of Wordperfect for UNIX among other business related stuff (This would have been before Wordperfect had a DOS and Windows version). It sort of became my baby as far as administration goes. It was all ASCII terminal based (no graphics, just ASCII menus etc on around 20 ASCII terminals spread throughout the building).

About this time Windows 3.0 came out and we moved most of the office type stuff (Wordperfect etc) to Windows 3.0 with a Novell server. The 3B2 pretty much became a door stop at this point.

We were a development shop and all of our products were done on the mainframe. That is until we got our first cluster of IBM RS/6000 machines running AIX v3.2.x. I was converted from being an application programmer to being a systems programmer/administrator and was in charge of the new UNIX machines. Within a month I was in love and UNIX has always been by far my preference over any version of Windows even though we still used Windows for Office type of stuff. This was about 10-12 years ago.

Not too long after getting the RS/6000s, Linus started working on the Linux kernel. I got wind of it early on and started playing with Linux from the start. Within a year it was complete enough to use Linux/PCs in place of IBM Xterminals. This gave us graphical access to the RS/6000 cluster at a small price. In fact everyone had a PC that I set up to dual boot with Windows 3.0. The majority of the daily work by the department was done on RS/6000s through the Linux X terminals. If someone needed to use Wordperfect (and later Word) they would boot into Windows. It worked very well.

I did AIX/Linux for about 5 years, then Solaris/Linux/NT for about 6 years. Linux has grown into the coolest OS, but still not the best for heavy duty (and expensive/proprietary) engineering/scientific/data modeling apps requiring big hardware. Although that's not so much the case any more as Beowulf clusters are becoming so popular.

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Bazoukas:
VoidMan, my resume beats your resume anyday of the year.

 i got all that you  said pluss ummmmmmm....LOOK UP THERE ITS AN ELEPHANT FLYING!!!

Pantso:
Wow! Void main's resume is really impressive. Well, I first used Linux in 1998 when I read some articles on the Internet about alternative OSes.

At the time, I was using Winblows '95 and God this was an awful experience. Constant crashes, lockups and the rest I'm sure you all know about.

That's when I decided to buy myself a copy of SuSE Linux 6.3. I had a really hard time installing the SOB and at a point I was really desperate but day after day I started getting used to it and gradually started leaving the Windows-user mentality behind me.    

PS: Bazoukas! Pou eisai re file?! Steile mou kana e-mail na ta poume or PM me!  

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