My Linux Story column

" Dad, I killed Windows, but I just realized I still need it. Can you help me?" " No, you broke it, you fix it." This was sometime around 2008. I wasn't even 20 years old. I…

In the beginning of Linux they laughed at it and didn't think it could do anything. Now Linux is everywhere! I was a junior at college studying Computer Engineering in Brazil…

Once upon a time, there was no Linux. No, really! It did not exist. It was not like today, with Linux everywhere. There were multiple flavors of Unix, there was Apple, and…

In 2008, I started studying physics and got in contact with Linux, since a bunch of people used it for data analysis and simulations. Comprehension came fast and easy with…

I first saw Linux in action around 2001 at my first job. I was as an account manager for an Austrian automotive industry supplier and shared an office with our IT guy. He was…

My first brush with open source came while I was working for my university as a part-time system administrator in 2001. I was part of a small group that created business case…