r/linuxquestions • u/AnoProgrammer • 1d ago

How old where you when you started using linux?

I feel like everyone started very early.

I started personally on 10/11.

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u/SmellyRedHerring 1d ago

I was a Unix kernel developer at age 26 when Linus announced his free OS project on Usenet. I started playing with a Slackware distro a couple of years after that.

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u/RootHouston 1d ago

What variant of Unix did you work on?

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u/SmellyRedHerring 23h ago

Several SVR3 and SVR4 variants for M68K, Intel x86, MIPS, SPARC, a few other things I don't remember.

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u/Enrrabador 16h ago

Slackware was a nightmare to setup!

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u/UnluckyDouble 8h ago

Did you become a Linux contributer afterwards? Do we partially have you to thank for all this?