Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
I've been mucking about with computers for over 20 years, starting
with the Commodore Pet. I refuse to categorise it as a hobby or a
career. I have been paid for doing it, though not very often at the
moment. I do it because I enjoy it - same reason for most things I do,
like electronics design and fault finding, mechanics, landscape
photography, keeping pigeons as pets, hand-rearing and looking after
abandoned/sick pigeons, reading (technical literature, science, novels,
SF, history, Bible). Some of these occasionally bring me money, but
all of them give non-financial rewards.
Most of it is self-taught. I did one year of a CS degree, but found it
largely irrelevant to real-world programming, and most of what was
relevant I knew already. Feedback from others who did the whole three
years indicated that my one year was representative.
I chose Linux because it is open-source, bullshit-free,
console-driven, has lots of development tools, allows good freedom
of access to the computer's resources, and helps pick the mortar from
between the bricks of Babylon. I chose Debian because in the spectrum
from breadhead distros to hacker's distros, it is right up at the
hacker's end. From what I have seen of the sort of problems people
have with other Linuxes, I think it was the right choice, and have not
been tempted to try any other.
Pigeon
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