How did you come to use Linux?

[dasnipa at gmail.com]

    My college computer science dept. was a linux only shop (awesome). when I was an underclassman they had an old version of redhat and then before I enter the upper classes they had upgraded to debian (pre-sarge). That was my first exposure. 
    On my personal side. Prior to becoming a computer science major I had taken an old computer (200 mhz) and went through installs for around 10 different distros. That was definitely one of the best learning exeriences. Especially when I went through the stage 1 oldschool bootstrap gentoo install. I highly recommend it for it you want to learn what every config file does. Ever.
    When I reached upperclass status is when I started messing around with linux to replace my desktop. As the coursework was becoming more time consuming, I found that it was much easier being able to ssh into my act at my convenience rather than work around lab schedules. (They allowed vnc which was nice but awkward at times). I started with debian since that's what the lab used, but after having problems with hardware compatibility I switched to ubuntu. My first version was breezy (circa 2005).
    Now that I'm out in the workforce, I'm pleased that my job is within a unix environment. I've also done dev work for pidgin and freeciv and some testing for ubuntu releases on the side.
    P.S. My license plate is 'KUBUNTU' so if you see me out on the road. Honk!

Greg
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