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The author's Linux/UNIX Experience

  • 1993-1998 SunOS and later Solaris on Sun servers
    • Used at University
  • 1995-1996 Attempted to configure an x86 PC to be a Linux server
    • Slackware install using 40+ floppy disks
    • Miserable experience that resulted in total failure
  • 1998-2002 PowerPC Apple iMac
    • Started with MacOS 8 but disliked it
    • Switched to Yellow Dog Linux, but didn’t understand RPM packages
    • Switched to MacOS X beta and liked it
  • 2002-2020 Cygwin running on top of Windows
    • Gave me a Bash shell for scripting my Xilinx builds
    • Later used scripting for synchronizing all my computers
    • Eventually switched from Cygwin to WSL
  • 2002-2020 Occasional use of Linux on a x86 PC
    • Debian attempted a few times but met with failure
    • Ubuntu was the only distro that installed successfully
    • Mostly using Windows
    • Ocasionally testing OpenBSD
  • 2010-2020 Occasional use of Linux on older laptops
    • Ubuntu is the only distro I used consistently
    • Other distros I tried are Mint and Fedora
    • Successfully used Yocto Project to build Linux for Freescale iMX6
  • 2015-2024 MacBook Pro and MacOS X
    • Extremely good computer
    • Homebrew package manager
    • MacOS X is excellent, it is basically BSD with a nice GUI
  • 2020 Heavy use of Linux
    • Purchased a laptop to use with Linux only
    • Linux quickly becomes my primary OS on personal and work computers
    • Started with Ubuntu 18.04, upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, but ended up distro-hopping after 21.04 due to Gnome
    • Distro hopping a lot, mostly with VMs, but sometimes to real hardware
    • Purchased an Intel NUC specifically to test Linux distros and my install scripts
    • Switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Mint before settling on Siduction (Debian)