Reply #8: Linux SA.

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I'm a contractor for a Very Big Company in their research department. Mostly, I maintain a compute cluster and some very overburdened NFS fileservers. Pretty much everything I touch is Linux, although I deal with a little AIX as well.

My first 'computer' was a dumb terminial which printed output onto a roll of thermal paper. It had audio couplings in the back; you would phone up the host system then stick the phone handset into the back of the terminal. My Dad got me an account on the Amdahl mainframe at the local University; it ran Michigan Terminal System. I was four. I was given an Apple II+ the next year.

I've been using Linux since 1994. It was, I believe, a Slackware distribution which shipped with the brand-new kernel 2.0.0.