Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
Okay, I'll weigh in.
I'm finishing up my master's degree in electrical engineering. My lab
is solely Linux and Solaris machines, but used Linux exclusively for a
couple of years during my undergrad, too. Everybody used to wonder why
my reports looked so much better than everybody else and I was sharing
PDF files rather than .DOCs. We all know, of course, that LaTeX and
pdfLaTeX are the answers to those questions.
I was a latecomer to the "computer owner" scene, even though they always
used to make me drool when I was growing up. I got my first machine in
'97, but I was a regular computer user since '94.
My friend introduced me to Linux during my undergrad and I eventually
converted. My first install was RH 5.2. Man, that was an ugly
distribution! Not a single pretty tool in the whole mess. No wonder I
made such fast friends with the command line. I eventually converted
to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain (they had that rudimentary
up2date-like system a couple of years before RH). I then met another
friend who basically called me a little girl for running Mandrake, and
he introduced me to the beauty of 'apt'. Nedless to say, it didn't take
long before I was installing potato on my own system.
So I use Linux (but not Debian) at work, and then I obviously can't get
enough because I come home and continue hacking on my Debian box (much
to the consternation of my wife).
I remember being a helplessly clueless newbie. But if you're diligent
about reading docs and using google, you'll soon find yourself to be a
capable sysadmin.
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Stephen W. Juranich sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
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