who we are

This issue… we reveal a foolproof method of leaving Windows and getting started with Linux Mint. So what key event introduced you to the world of Linux?

Jonni Bidwell

I had some bad habits when I was a student, one of which was computational group theory. They locked the lab at night, which is when I do my best ( ahem,overdue–Ed) work, so I learned about SSH and forwarding X traffic and, eventually, installed Gentoo. The rest, as they say, is a rewarding role on a leading magazine for Linux enthusiasts!

John Lane

I’d been honing my unix-fu on an early Slackware for my day-job coding X/Motif front ends when I first saw Windows 95 and its increasingly familiar blue screen of death. I knew the world had changed enough for me to go out and buy a Linux CD set. I still have it somewhere…

Nick Peers

It was the perfect storm: more usable virtualisation software meant I didn’t have to tie up my PC or take risks with dual-boot setups at first, while the emergence of more user-friendly distros lowered the barrier to entry enough to tempt me in, despite my innate laziness.

Les Pounder

It was the late 1990s, a time when Internet access was slow. I tried a coverdisc that contained Mandrake Linux. This lead me to Corel Linux (Debian-ish) and then on to Suse, Ubuntu, Crunchbang, Linux Mint…

Mayank Sharma

It was dad puffing away at the desktop at 2am (not an uncommon sight when you have a journalist for a father). But that night he was labouring to get Slackware to dial out on the modem. This was in November 1999 and the Halloween documents had him convinced that Linux was something he needed to get his kids into.