[ubuntu-nz] Intro

[t94xr]

  Good to hear it too!

I got into Ubuntu to help revive a Sharp laptop of a friend of mine, it 
was 6.04 and boy was that basic compared to 10.04

I was that annoying pro-Windows anti-Linux kid who never delt with 
anything but Windows his entire life, thankfully I grew up, realised 
Linux could be used to patch up a few of the holes in technology Windows 
couldn't do.

Since then, I've focused on having Linux as a secondary OS in my life, 
it's become quite useful.

I started out on computers, when I was 9, being 26 now - I started out 
on DOS 6.22 Windows 3.1 and 286s 386s and 486s.
I've focused on learning Linux commands, haven't focused on GNOME or KDE 
as such, I did have a linux server setup, simple 
Debian/Lighttpd/PHP5/SAMBA server, I need to rebuild that.

I dualboot Windows 7 (main os) and Ubuntu 10.04 (secondary)
Laptop has Ubuntu 10.04 (main os)
Dads PC has Windows 7 (main) and Ubuntu (secondary)

CameronW

On 5/08/2010 8:33 p.m., Gordon wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thought I had better introduce myself having just joined.
> Been in NZ 5 years, an ex Pom also ex RN now serving in the RNZN.  When
> not sailing the navies yachts am usually found under one of the 5 Land
> Rovers in the family.
> Also have a home network to look after with 3 teenage children at home,
> with one married and wife staying with us and also eldest daughters
> fiance.
> Been working with computers since the early 80s, started on a MicroVax
> cluster, early PCs as in 8086 at 8MHz!, wrote my MSC disertation in
> WP5.1 and Harvard Graphics for DOS!  Went through all the flavours of
> windows including NT 3 network admin growing into mixed with win 95,
> then 2000.  By XP after service packs took something that ran on a 486
> with 64MB of ram to something that barely ran on a IGHz pc with 1GB of
> RAm, started looking at options.  Ubuntu was at 7.04 and after first try
> been hooked since.  Writing this on 10.04, have both daughters and
> dauhter-in-law on it as well.  Wife was forced to try but rebelled as
> could not cope with evolution cos it was not exactly like Outlook, she
> now got Win 7 thats dieing as media player doesnt any longer.
> Hapily use Ubuntu for almost everything, only thing I have not yet found
> for it is a maritime navigation package for when out on the yachts, keep
> an old laptop that dual boots with XP for that.  Tend to learn by trying
> using Google and the forums etc to guide me.
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon
>
>