I have been using Gnu/Linux since June 1995. That is just a year after Linux 1.0 was released and less than four years after Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds. Coming from the Unix-centric world of Chalmers University of Technology, it was natural for me to choose Slackware, with its aim for being as Unix like as possible, as my first Linux distribution. This was the hard core days of Linux. I compiled the kernel myself, fiddled with the X11 configurations for hours and so on. So maybe I can call myself a veteran user. (Please notice the emphasis on user. I am not a Linux expert.)
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