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> Most linux sysadmins don't call their job a "hobby".
It's not my job. I'm all but retired.
> My guess is that Scott has 10 years of age on me. (I was born in 1976,
> if that helps us narrow it down.) I don't really believe his Paul
> Bunyon tale that he was a "paid linux sysadmin" in 1992.
You have no idea what I did in 1992, even though I posted a directory
listing of the reports from my project, when I was working for Computing
Services at the local campus.
Oh that's right -- you said you didn't care. You're welcome to remain
stupid. However, others might be interested:
> The HP-UX, I can believe, however. More likely, he put Slackware on an
> old 386 in his dorm room so he could run mutt or pine to check his
> emails.
No, I used MCC Interim Linux on a spare server, which was earmarked to
replace any Netware server that were to fail on campus. I did it
as a "special studies in computer science" project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCC_Interim_Linux
This was our students first access to Internet services, as a Linux
("Unix") shell host. There were no other facilities for student email
at the time. It had 8 modems attached using an 8-port serial card that
had been on a Xenix system.
The campus HP3000 was named "Garfield", and the library HP9000 was
named "Odie". So this system was named "Nermal".
Some lab machines had the IPX stack using IPX/ODI so that a Crynwr packet
driver shim could be used for a telnet program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Nelson
It started out with 2MB of memory. We later added more RAM,
for a total of 16 MB. This was enough to support the load.
The first CWIS for community colleges in California was hosted
on it, using gopher.
So Linux on the campus started as an exercise in "guerilla networking".
My biz partner and I decided we could do the same thing for non-students,
and started our business in 1994.
> Flash forward to 2025 and he claims with no proof that he was a "linux
> sysadmin" in 1992.
Wrong. I gave enough proof -- but you blew it off. The only reason I'm
answering you now is to set the record straight, and let people know
the real story -- not the BS that your pumping out your piehole.
> If that's the case, then I was a "Linux sysadmin" in
> 1997 while in college, as well. And I guess add VAX/VMS sysadmin to
> that as well, because I was also busy hacking away at two vaxStation
> 2000's that were gifted to me in summer of 1996.
So with that knowledge, why didn't you start a business offering Internet
shell services to the community?
> I have been a paid professional linux sysadmin since 2000 when I was 24
> years old. It's not a "hobby".
That's nice. But some of us enjoy looking for bugs in Linux, and report
them when found -- or if the bug is already know, contribute to testing
the resulting patches. You might consider what it means to discourage
people who volunteer their time to support Linux development.
And if it's not a "hobby", what is it?
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