I was born 17.09.1990, exactly a year off. I grew up with Linux and am eternally grateful to the "scene" surrounding the magazine CDs with - I don't know - like 17 distros packed in together and endless tutorials on each of them.

It's also amusing how many people - my age or so - use Ubuntu as a daily driver these days that never went through the pain of configuring LILO or Broadcom drivers from source in Slackware ;)

I started using Linux in around 94/95. I heard some people say how cool Linux was. So after numerous attempts I got it installed and was booted to a command prompt and asked "What the fuck is so cool about this?"

I would turn out to be love at first sight. I've been using Linux since and I've been working at SUSE for 10 years this Fall.

I remember going to a Linux meetup in downtown Seattle in about the spring of 1993. I was surprised at the large number who attended, probably a couple hundred.

That's pretty awesome.

> the pain of configuring LILO

LI

I once made a patched LILO that would print LOL instead of LIL when the second stage bootloader barfed.

Yeah - I recall that the number of characters printed would tell you where it failed.

Thank you, this just made my day. :)

Don't forget xf86config and other X11 fun to make it work with monitors, before peoples shared settings for popular models.

Yeah - And I bet you also remember those warnings about configuring your monitor wrong could physically destroy it. Fun times! :-)

How did you realize that?

I wanted to verify it too, if you Google '1791991 prime', the search page answers 'Yes'.

Yeah, I indeed Googled it [0]. Wolfram Alpha is also a quick way to verify, just query the number:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1791991

[0] I thought to check because I instantly knew the number was not divisible by 3 (since 1+7+1+1 % 3 = 1), and at that point it's just quicker to look it up than run through the other primes up to sqrt(1791991).

Just use the "factor" program from the command line:

$ factor 1791991

1791991: 1791991

factor prints the prime factors of each specified integer.

Indeed! At least, for systems with GNU Coreutils.

So is 9171991.