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I started on a help desk, then in ~97 spent a year at RH, then jumped to IBM doing software testing. Ironically, I was the only applicant with ANY experience with SCO Unix, which was supported, that got me the job. A few years later, they made me a software engineer when they decided to support Linux.
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 @MrsMouse @flexion Nice! I actually interviewed for Redhat around 2000, at their San Francisco office. I got the offer, but they weren't sure if they wanted to place me in SF (they were closing the office) or NC. I ended up taking a job from the people who likely printed that CD... Turbolinux aka Pacific HiTech. It didn't last though, they laid us all off within a few months. I didn't actually end up working for RH until a few years ago, but I was in the wrong department and left soon. @MrsMouse @flexion I was really disappointed in our release. There were things that just simply didn't work and were clearly untested _in the installer_. Like.. IIRC you couldn't do a FTP install even though it was offered, it would error. I filed so many bugs but like I said, we were laid off soon after. There was a Japanese company also doing Turbolinux for Japan and that distro was 1000x better than ours. @MrsMouse @flexion I think the TurobLinux US distribution had nobodies attention since it was a _bad_ fork of Redhat ~4 (I know a lot of us put love into it, but it was bad). At the office we had some folks from the Japan Turbolinux visit and show us their distro and we were all in total awe of how amazing it was compared to what we were working on. |
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I had actually started with Linux first, and got my hands on SCO Unix and was thinking, "Wow, I love Linux, and that's the amateur thing; just wait till I see what the Pros use!
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Anyway. that was educational.