He told me unix is better than windows or mac, like when a program crashes (and they did all the time) unix would release that block of memory and keep chugging along, dont forget 4 meg of ram was huge then.
Now they ran freebsd on there servers for mail and news groups and web, when I saw there admin pounding away at the keyboard and all kind of stuff scrolling across the screen, I had to know more. It was like 24 -25 years ago when my ISP was about a mile away and I was able to check it out to see how it worked, Was not a big operations kinda a local ISP, they had 2 T1 lines coming in, and 56k modems just came out. I still use Linux, I have half a dozen different VMs running on my main Windows PC, a Rasberry Pi 3 running Pi-Hole and some Docker containers on my NAS.Īt my previous employer, we were 98% Linux - it was an IT security company and only a couple of sales people had Windows PCs. I switched to Linux in 2002, because Windows XP was such a pig’s ear! I’ve used it ever since, but with Vista, Windows had played catch-up with Linux and I switched back for my main workstation, mainly because I had to share a lot of Office documents and OpenOffice / LibreOffice leave a lot to be desired, when it comes to sharing documents with MS Office users - formatting goes to hell, for example and line in diagrams aren’t where they are supposed to be or pagination in documents is wrong.Īnnoying, when the customer says “look on page 5” and it is page 6 or 7 in your document… Worse was a presentation at one company, the boss tried to save money by using OpenOffice and a client came in with a PowerPoint presentation, the workflows they were showing were totally screwed up on the presentation room PC, as the lines were going to the wrong destinations. I had a few more encounters with UNIX in the 90s and saw a Linux install in the mid 90s, but it seemed very primitive at the time. I first used UNIX back in 1982, along with VAX VMS (probably the best OS I ever used).
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