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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 23:05:38 JST nixCraft 🐧

   17 September 1991: Linus publicly released the first #Linux Kernel version 0.01, and the rest is history. Did Linux play a significant role in your IT carrier? 🎂🐧🥮🍥🍰

   • LiamAEdwards (liamaedwards@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 23:35:47 JST LiamAEdwards

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     @nixCraft Linux is currently my career so if it didn't exist I haven't a clue what I'd do.

     Maybe be a windows admin *shudders*

   • Grant_H (grant_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 01:41:12 JST Grant_H

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     @nixCraft in 1994 I set up a community computer centre on the edge of a South African informal settlement (Ivory Park, Midrand) using Linux and some old corporate PCs and a printer. Ran for like 9 months between reboots. I think a few careers got started there, writing up CVs and applying for jobs via email.

   • absolutejank (absolutejank@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 02:47:10 JST absolutejank

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     @nixCraft it hasn’t played a role in my professional career but it’s only strengthened my interest in computing. and I am quite comfortable with CLI thanks to linux. so yes and no?

   • throatgoat (throatgoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 02:57:44 JST throatgoat

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     @nixCraft it didn't play a significant role in my career, it changed my life.

   • sboger (sboger@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 13:47:26 JST sboger

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     @nixCraft All of it. I've been a Linux professional for 25 years and an RHCE for 22 years.