How To Become A Hacker Why This Document? As editor of the Jargon File, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizard hacker?". Oddly enough there don't seem to be any FAQs or Web documents that address this vital question, so here's mine. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/…showed first 75 words of 4337 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4337 total…how much "free" software gets written, there always seems to be more demand for new and customized applications. I've written more about this at the Open Source pages. Q: How can I get started? Where can I get a free Unix? Elsewhere on this page I include pointers to where to get the most commonly used free Unix. To be a hacker you need motivation and initiative and the ability to educate yourself. Start now...