Over the course of the
last five months, I have run headlong into a wall.
The Wall. The
Linux Wall. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, in fact it has been a great learning experience for me. It was on
December 23, 2000 when I was handed my first copy of Linux. Not just any version however, it was
Debian,
the mother of all. I took home that
coveted OS, and pondered for what seemed like hours as to which
box I was going to run it on.
I determined that I would take my
E-Machine, and grace it's
hard drives with the
OS. Little did I know that my pre-emptive thinking that I was going to
run Linux was a big mistake. It was at approximately
2:30 in the morning that I was translated from the
Windows based technical world that I was so good at and thrust into the world of
Penguins,
Hours of IRC Support, and
Red Hats. It was at that very moment that I had renewed my purpose in life, and knew that I was destined to become a
Linux Geek!
Since that time, I have successfully run Linux on a
Gateway Profile 2 (which has no Linux Drivers. Period.), a
486 POS with
32 Meg of
RAM and a 2
Gig Hard Drive, a
Micron Client Pro, an
HP Netfinity Server, an
I-Mac (
Purple), a
Nintendo 64 Game Console (with some serious hardware "
tweaking" to get the
peripherals attached...thanks to the previous work of some folks in...
Germany???), and I even attempted to
port it to the new
PS2 Console (one piece of advice:
Don't).
I now know
Perl pretty well, I can run
MySQL with my eyes closed, and have even been known to spend an entire workday discussing the benefits of Linux over
Satan's OS...but why?
As
semprini stated I believe, "
The instant you get hold of a new computer system, they want to install Linux on it. The more
obscure it is, the greater the
urge." This in my mind derives from the need to prove that Linux is the
Best OS out there in the market, to make known that it
can run on your system! We can make it do that. At least that is how it is in my mind. If someone says
it can't be done, it
beguiles my
techie spirit with
mirth until I can prove it can be done!
To make this simple, I run Linux on 'THAT' because I must prove it can be done, but it is even better if I am the first to do it! Call me
egotistical, because I am! It's the techie
nature...