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what caused you to get into Linux? (programming.dev)

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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] christopher@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

My neighbor at the trailer park was a janitor at the university. I built my computer from parts he salvaged from the recycle bin, and put Redhat 5 on it.