- First used a computer in college
 
    - Frustrated with black boxes
 
    - Python and Linux coincidentally started around when I started college
      
        - Both borrow heavily from previous technologies
 
        - If only I'd known!
 
       
     
    - Learned lots with Linux in 1994, but didn't appreciate the importance
 
    - Successful professionally and technically with windows for a few years, but became more frustrated
 
    - Not all sweetness and light for the last 6 years but MUCH better
 
    - Note the concepts discussed here also apply to OS X, Solaris, BSD, QNX, ...
 
   
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