Another new LQ member!
After long use of LQ as a guest, I'm finally a registered user on LQ.
I've been working with various distros of Linux since 1983, my first version was Slackware Linux downloaded (at 300 baud dialup) from the UNC repository (http://sunsite.unc.edu) onto 40-45 floppy disks. Yes, I am a seasoned professional (my son says I'm OLD). Today, I'm a Kali Linux aficionado and geek, putting it to use in a multiple VM environment for testing, demonstration, and self-education in vulnerability testing and assessments. Thanks for keeping this excellent site up and running, and thanks for all of you who volunteer your knowledge and expertise to the rest of us! Sam |
Welcome to the LQ forum Sam. :hattip: Hope your Kali Linux journey is going well.
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1983? But GNU/Linux has only been around since 1991. |
Welcome to LQ!
Unix or Unix-like? |
Linux distros before 1991
linustalman,
I was working with commercial and private distributions of Unix/Linux back to 1983, the earliest being USC-Berkeley distribution (BSD) and very early Unix-like systems running on Sperry/Unisys hardware. I purchased my own copy of BSD (with a 10,000 seat license!) in the mid-80s, which was folded into some of the first Free BSD distributions in the late 80s or early 90s. After leaving the commercial Unix world, I moved into Linux using slackware from sunsite.unc.edu and have stayed with Linux since. Today, I'm semi-retired and using mostly Debian Linux, especially heavily modified Kali Linux. Still enjoy the $ and # prompts and that good ol' Unix command line! Hope this helps! Sam |
Thanks, greencedar!
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Re: Unix or Unix-like?
Gad,
Both, actually. And a few that aren't either! Although over the last decade or two, it's been Linux rather than the original Unix software (in my case, mostly BSD variants). But I can get around in either type, so long as there is a command line available. Sam |
Makes sense
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SammyC, Linux isn't Unix, it's Unix-like as it resembles Unix to a large degree, but isn't directly based on it. |
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So yes, my experience with Unix (BSD) goes back to 1983, while my Linux relationship began somewhere shortly after Linus Torvalds released his newly developed OS to GNU in the 1991-1994 timeframe. Although Linus didn't hand me a set of disks, my team and I were early adopters with my first downloaded distribution coming from UNC, downloaded via dialup at a blazing speed of 300 baud. That better? |
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