Greetings from a new list member

[daniel sobey]

While mentioning books take a look at the ubuntu pocket guide. avalable in downloadable pdf and dead tree formats. http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html

--- On Tue, 12/5/09, opm595 <opm595 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> From: opm595 <opm595 at yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Greetings from a new list member
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Received: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009, 8:12 AM
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> Hi Guys,
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> Rob here, out in Sydney's sunny South West. I thought,
> as a new list member I'd drop you a line to say
> 'howdy doody' etc.
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> I jumped ship about two years ago from that other OS that
> Bill and his mates created, and I've been absolutely
> wrapped with Ubuntu ever since. Truthfully, I had very
> little idea of what Linux actually was, prior to someone
> introducing me to the Debian/Ubuntu family. I wouldn't
> say the transition as a basic MS user was easy, but it
> certainly hasn't been overly hard, or impossible either.
> Plus I think my learning curb towards computing itself, in
> past couple of years, has definitely improved exponentially
> in a positive way, and my persistence to learn more and more
> about GNU/Linux is slowly paying off. 
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> Having clocked the "Big Four O" , the other week,
> someone gave me a really great book titled 'Ubuntu Linux
> Toolbox by Chris Negus & Francious Caen  - 1000+
> Commands for Ubuntu and Debian Power Users', which
> I'm currently in the process of reading.
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> Admittedly I have toyed around, more so out of curiosity
> then anything else, with a few of the other Linux
> distro's, but Ubuntu is now my main operating system, to
> which I now too gladly introduce to others. My wife seems to
> think I'm driving her mad with it, but who knows, maybe
> one day I'll even get her off that dreadful Vista OS she
> has on her laptop. Only time will tell, I guess.
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> It's fantastic to now know of other Aussie users out
> there that are planting the seeds of this wonderful
> operating system here in Australia.
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> Have a great day!
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> Rob
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