Hi
Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester
Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc
was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was in touch
with Linus a lot of the time...
http://people.man.ac.uk/~zlsiial/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCC_Interim_Linux
I helped Owen and some other people to start ManLUG which is still
running today.
www.manlug.org. The rest is history. Over the years
I've spent many happy hours flying around the world promoting GNU/Linux
by writing for magazines.
It's been fun :)
--
Richard
www.sheflug.org.uk
https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1