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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’ve been running Fedora for many years now. Prior to that, I tried used Ubuntu for a bit. When Unity’s search started throwing in Amazon results, I said nope, I’m out.

    Fedora is fitting. My very first distro was RedHat 6. I picked up a book from the public library with install discs. (A friend told me all the hackers use Linux, so I figured I needed to get it. After all, I could compile basic C++ programs in Microsoft Visual Studio!) I tried Mandrake too. A coworker of mine helped maintain a compile-from-source distro called Lunar, so I ran with that for a couple years. Then Debian, then Ubuntu, and finally Fedora.

    My early distro hopping was a combination of curiosity and a heavy handed solution to not knowing how to get something to work. Some library version isn’t easily available in RedHat? Wipe the system and try Mandrake!