My Linux Story column

The year was 1996. December 1996 to be more precise. I had just finished my first semester of college and was spending Christmas at my uncle's apartment in Port Jefferson, New…

My Linux story begins like that of so many others—with an old computer and a desire to tinker. It was the late 1990s when I read an article about a UNIX-like operating system…

My earliest computer experiences were in computer science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1974-75. At that time, UBC was one of a small group of institutions…

It's 2015, and there are no computers in my house that run anything but Linux. Yep, I'm one of those people. My name is Jim Salter, and I'm a professional Linux sysadmin and…

Early on my dad was very familiar with Linux as a operating system, which is a story in itself. However, this story is more about why he left the Microsoft environment. Brent…

Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011…