User:Veritas

My Linux Story
I've seen a few people put personal info on their user pages, so i will do the same, because I'm unoriginal.

My name is Wes. I'm a senior in high school. Linux was sort of a self discovery for me. I was at half priced books on a certain weekend in 9th grade, browsing the software section, when my eyes met a curious, green looking box by the name of SuSe (version 7 something, i honestly can't remember). So i was curious, picked it up, flipped it over and looked at the back cover. I really liked what I saw, with the cool screen shots featuring GIMP (in KDE) and various other applications. It was only 10 bucks so I bought it. But when i got home fear presided at installation time so I ended up selling it to a guy in my English class for about 15 bucks. So that was the end of that, never have used SuSe to this day.

A few months later, I was browsing Half Priced Books again, and I ran across Red Hat 6.1 professional. Two main reasons I bought it: 1. It was heavy, so i knew that there would be a bunch of software to mess around with. 2. There was a huge book on it. So I bought both the book and the distro, racked up enough nerve to install it on an old k6-II, and BAM. My first working linux distribution was installed. Had a lot of fun messing around with it, mounting my 98 partition, playing music, and what not.

Then, a year or 2 later, I was browsing the internet and found Slackware 8.1. I heard the old cliches about how hard it is to install. But I had gone through many Red Hat installations, so I thought I was prepared. Did a test install on the ol' k6, worked great. A few months later I decided to secretly install it onto my parents computer (the good one). Did a non lilo install, boot disk only. Shortly after I figured out you can put lilo on a floppy. Now it loads so much faster. And thats where I am today :) Slackware 9.1/10 learning whatever I can.

Hobbies: administrating my Origin 200 I received from my school, messing around on slackware.

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