What is on Your Mind?

In 1999 I bought a SuSE LiNUX 6.2 package, which included 6 CD-ROMs and a nice handbook (520 page). It was my first contact with a UNIX-like OS. In 2000 I had my first contact with a "real" UNIX, namely AIX, although my only task on that machine was to check if a certain process was running. I was mainly responsible for AS/400 and DEC machines back then

Ah, if that's a qualifier, then my first contact with a "real" UNIX was an old SunOS system at the local university. Students would shell into it and compile programs on it. It got forkbombed pretty regularly.

University, behind a dumb terminal.

My first contact with unix in my college back in 2001 . After that my real love for unix started with Solaris 9 in 2005 . Then started working with solaris 10 and Redhat OS . Still reading the manuals till date.

I got tired of the same old, same old windows operating system. I decided to try Unix out of boredom and it turned into one of my hobbies. I enjoy reading books on Unix. Some of my favorite systems are Openbsd(ALSR<333333) & sabayon. I'm starting a project using a few Openbsd boxes. I'm am off to the library for more books to check out.

I'm a mac user. Opened the utilities folder and saw "Terminal" but was too scared of it to use it. Years later I get a summer job in a university lab where I need to run simulations via SSH (which meant nothing to me at the time). That's where I learned basic commands like cp, mv, ls etc. Being the obsessive person I can be at times I read about UNIX on the web and even bough a book to learn how to use the bash shell and write scripts.

I started on a SunOS 4.something system in 1990 at Ohio State University. The department had Sun workstations for the grad students to use. The first day I figured out how to send an email and told my friend Jason I was now working on a Sun computer which I hadn't ever used before. He wrote back that I should type "rm -rf *" to speed the system up a bunch. I typed it in but before hitting enter asked one of the other guys what it would do. His yelp of fear and leap toward the delete key told me all I needed to know . . . .