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Slashdot: Road To Linux — Made It!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 1999

“Long ago and far away, I started writing a series called “Road
To Linux,” in which I set out to learn Linux in a few weeks. Talk
about clueless. Nearly one year, two wasted computers, a ticked-off
spouse, (and a Yellow Lab who ate a motherboard) 30-plus books and
manuals and much assorted debris later, I’ve more or less made it.
I have no illusions about the technical accomplishments I’ve
achieved here, but these are the first proud words I’ve ever
written online without any assistance from Bill Gates or Steve Jobs
or any big fat corporation. Small stuff to most of you, Computer
Everest to me.”

“My PPP daemon keeps cutting out, and I’m puzzling over swap
partitions, random seeds and generators bin/appfinders, so I’ll
keep this brief. In the next few weeks, I’ll write more about my
personal, somewhat hellish road to Linux. It was a hummer,
accompanied every step away by the jeers and cheers of geeks and
nerds on and off of Slashdot.”

The big lesson was that I approached Linux in the wrong
way, from every conceivable perspective. It needn’t be that
hard.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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