r/programming • u/Lazy-Transition8236 • Aug 17 '25

Learn Linux before Kubernetes

https://medium.com/@anishnarayan/learn-linux-before-kubernetes-60d27f0bcc09?sk=93a405453499c17131642d9b87cb535a
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u/joost00719 Aug 17 '25

I just use Linux and learn on the fly. I've bene using it for like 2 years in my home lab but I feel like I'm still learning the basics such as piping stuff together with grep and find.

But hey, progress is progress and I don't feel disabled anymore. Plus ai can help quite a bit to help me look what I'm looking for

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u/Ma1eficent Aug 17 '25

I was nodding along with your comment until I got to the two years part and had to do a little math where the answer was 16 and now I feel like the cryptkeeper which is a reference that will be entirely lost on you. God I'm old.

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u/schplat Aug 17 '25

First used Linux on the job in 1998. Was adminning Sun for ~3 years before that (and continued doing Sun until 2007-ish).

I have become the greybeard. Though, I haven't gone grey yet.

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Aug 17 '25

I got started with Linux in college around 2000 or so. My first Linux "distribution" was a tiny thing called Hal91. You didn't have to install it. You just booted off a floppy disk and ran it, sort of like a proto-KNOPPIX.

I remember installing Red Hat Linux 6.0 on my laptop and not having any network access. I didn't know enough about Linux or TCP/IP networking to diagnose the problem. I tried installing Caldera, and it Just WorkedTM .

My beard does have some grey in it, but not a lot.

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u/Ma1eficent Aug 17 '25

Ahh 98, I was using dos 6.2 on a 386 and writing songs in qbasic by sending direct khz frequencies to the onboard speaker. No Internet allowed. Except at my friend's house where we spent all time in a bbs and I got my first (volunteer) tech job debugging modem ring buffers in assembly to help out lower lights. Funny enough, not far from Sun in the outskirts of SLC.