http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2009/04/26/linux-nostalgia/ Keith's attempts to fix the cable of life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2009/04/26/linux-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-42347 Ralph W Siegler Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:04:10 +0000 http://www.kgarner.com/blog/?p=690#comment-42347 In 1998, Keith and some other consultants at a midwestern healthcare insurance software company would be overheard talking about this "Linux" thing. At the time I, old hand at SunOS and HPUX and IRIX, was increasingly frustrated by shortcomings of "Windows". After several years of forced-by-corporate-mandate use at two jobs it found to be not an operating system at all, but merely a kludgey program-loader and some half-useful utilities. Somewhere along the way I gleaned from conversations of Keith and his consultant cohorts that this "Linux" thing actually transformed a PC into a Unix workstation, and the light bulb went on in my head that "I really need some of that." So one day I blew away the company's required windows and laid down the Redhat 5.1 I''ve been using GNU/Linux ever since. In 1998, Keith and some other consultants at a midwestern healthcare insurance software company would be overheard talking about this “Linux” thing. At the time I, old hand at SunOS and HPUX and IRIX, was increasingly frustrated by shortcomings of “Windows”. After several years of forced-by-corporate-mandate use at two jobs it found to be not an operating system at all, but merely a kludgey program-loader and some half-useful utilities. Somewhere along the way I gleaned from conversations of Keith and his consultant cohorts that this “Linux” thing actually transformed a PC into a Unix workstation, and the light bulb went on in my head that “I really need some of that.” So one day I blew away the company’s required windows and laid down the Redhat 5.1 I”ve been using GNU/Linux ever since.

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