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what caused you to get into Linux? (programming.dev)
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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] mrkite@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

There was a ton of software sourcecode posted to the comp.sources.unix usenet group that I wanted to check out. The problem is all that software was in shar format, and there was no way to extract those files on msdos. I found Yggdrasil Linux on CD at a local software store and decided to check it out. Been using Linux in one form or another ever since.