I was using Windows. I didn’t know about Linux and it wasn’t quite known in my university. But things changed 2 years after that. The university started making sure that most of the colleges and departments had free and open source software running. That was an interesting beginning because, of course, the changes meant that it was enforced in practically all the labs at the university. Back then students only had microfloppy disks and not USB flashdrives. Not a lot of us had laptops in the state university. That change was painful as the floppy drives were not easily mounted and unmounted by what we were using then. Some labs had Linux, some had BSD. Some had GNOME, some had KDE. It was, in some ways, chaotic. People didn’t really know how to adjust. The junior sys admins [...]

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