Originally Posted by
ptempel
Linux Admin geekazoids unite! Have been doing the same for almost 20 years. Got root?
FYA, way back on post
#110 (1/10/15), I wrote, in reply to these posts:
Originally Posted by
noglider
Linux System Administrator at a private college in the Bronx, which happens to be called Manhattan College.
Originally Posted by
Eds0123
Not to be high jacking this thread, but using and running Linux is so much in line with spirit of bicycle commuting, self reliance, community cooperation, in earlier days you relied on your own capabilities to set up your own and run your own software the way you wanted etc, how did you get started being linux sysadmin Tom?
Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Running Linux used to be like building your own bike out of a mixed bin full of unlabeled old French and Italian parts without Sheldon Brown's site to use as a reference...
Originally Posted by
noglider
Yes I like your analogy.
I went to college for computer science and worked as a programmer initially. Then I fell into Unix system administration.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I’m not in the High Tech field, but I will bring this runaway sideband discussion gently back on track with the OP:
I searched for Linux on Wikipedia, and as I suspected,
“Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system…” Now it so happens that I went to college with
Rich Stevens, who as I understand, is the virtual Unix equivalent of Sheldon Brown…
Guru of the Unix gurus” on Salon.com.
He even has an entry on Wikipedia. He is likely the most famous person I knew in college, though I did lose track of him over the years. (If he is indeed so famous and well-known, and if interested. I have an amusing (IMO) anecdote about him, FYA).
Anyways, Rich knew me well enough to give me the nickname “Doc,” because I was in pre-med. I did go to Medical School and became a pathologist…