I’ve been using Linux and several of it’s other Unix-Like cousins on and off for the past 24 + plus years (since 2,001). Which means I’ve been using Linux and it’s other Unix-Like cousins in particular the BSDS(Free,Net and Open) as matter of fact I can even remember when you used to be required to use utilities like b43-cutter in order to get network cards of the day in particular WiFi adapters based on Broad Com chips. This was true accessed all of the Linux distributions of the day and how big a deal it was when per-conical Ubuntu came around and simplified configuring WiFi and Video Cards(boards). My adventures with the Unix-Work a likes continued with the Net,Open and Free BSD. I started out using FreeBSD which is the reverse of how certain folks in the Unix-Like operating system space would intone that you had to start with the BSDs and then work your way back to Linux distributions such as “back in the Day” Debian and Ubuntu.
My first experiences with interacting with a non-local Unix-Like operating system occurred the first time I logged onto a fresh user account on the Super Dimensional Fortress(SDF) back in 2001-02 while I was in middle/high school. That wasn’t the only Unix shell account that I’ve had weather at SDF where over the years I must’ve had close to a hundred or more different usernames(handles). I’ve also had a couple of different usernames on shell communities which include BShells. My current configurations are Slack Ware Linux on my Hp Z 420 workstation and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 10 which is the latest release of RHEL Workstation which has for several years now been owned by IBM(big blue). What amazes me about IBM is despite the fact that several Mainframe brands have either gone out of business or been bought and sold so many times over that we’ve most likely all lost track of the number of transactions. The remains of Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC), OpenVMS which was the assumed operating system for VAX,Alpha and Itanium quite a few other reduced instruction set computing(RISC) based processors. The Itanium platform fail to take off because of poor execution by Intel. As well as the sheer number of Intel and AMD x86 and X86_64 CISC processors based client side and server side computer systems.
Despite the very long instruction word(VLIW) processor architecture failing spectacularly because it never actually gained traction in the market place do to the prevalence of both more economical 32 and 64 bit processors offered at the time by Intel and AMD. In addition to Complex Instruction Set Computing(CISC) processors as well as Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) CPU architectures such as PowerPC from IBM and Sun Micro Systems Sparc chips. Aplle computer would stick with Motorola RISC based processors until the migrated there products over the x86_64 based CPUs from Intel up until ,recently when they released their own in house RISC based M CPU after years of using x86_64 architecture CPU s from Intel. Dispute the fact that the desktop market has for the most part migrated back to x86_64 based CPU s from AMD and Intel IBM has still maintained their line of Power cpus in their Z/Seriers mainframes.