I'm in the middle of a job search myself and trying to keep it as local as possible,western suburbs. It all depends on what "You" want to do it's out there. How I got in to Linux? I worked for a company as a programmer many years ago, COBOL on UNIX & NCR computers. While working that job I bought an OS called Coherent a UNIX look a like, ran that for a long time with DOS V3.3 on a 286/16 I could dance in vi back then. The Coherent code didn't want to run properly on my shiny new Gateway 2000 486/33e. I sold the 286 with DOS on it and kept the Coherent package, I still have it. The Mark Williams Company went out of business (they made Coherent). Guess what, Linux would run on a 486! I didn't run in to it until Red Hat 4.x so it had been around a while. I didn't even run X windows, just Linux connected to a network as a Samba server. Then there were 2 Linux boxes, I now have 9 computers 4 with Linux the rest with M$ OS the rest of the world needs to dump so I don't have to support it any more. I'm going to install Ubuntu on a Compaq 500e laptop this afternoon just to see if my Linksys wireless will work. Sam. fci wrote: >This is probably the wrong place to ask.. but does anyone know of any >jobs in the area (it doesn't have to be computer related, I'm just >looking for a wage-type job or something that will hold my interest)? >(email me if you know of any decent places, I am currently a web >developer but it bores me out of my mind, I currently live in >Shoreview)... > >and.. so my post isn't a total loss, I will make the topic now more >linux related(hopefully this sort of question hasn't been asked >before)... > >how is it you got involved in Linux? > >for me, I was doing various server stuff over SSH.. it helped me gain >some rather basic skills so then I eventually installed a distro for >permanent desktop usage. > >c > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >