GrahamPlatt wrote:MDW1954 wrote:Thank you for posting all this: a welcome reminder to keep Windows and Linux machines quite separate! I use both, and have done for years -- I started with Linux with Ubuntu 8.04, back in 2008. But dual-boot, no thanks. Glad you got it sorted.
MDW1954
I pre-date you somewhat. I go back to pre Ubuntu days, early 1990s when I used to play with Slackware & Redhat. I do have a “separate” which is a Mintbox. I dd an OU module on Linux at one point (probably have a certificate somewhere) but I am ever so rusty now.
I'm sure lots of people here pre-date me; while obviously interested in Linux in the early days (I was something of an IT journalist back then) it was actually an urgent need to find a reliable DOS virtual machine that moved me from spectator to participant.
Scroll down a little, and you'll find me mentioned here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.htmlI've looked at Linux certification courses on edX and the OU etc, but struggle to justify the input. If you've learned computing in the 1970s mainframe era (which I did), then a lot of Linux seems obvious.
MDW1954