How did you come to use Linux?
Glenn Tobey
gletob at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 19:28:13 BST 2009
I first got started with Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn. I was on digg and I
see this article about WUBI. This would allow me to install ubuntu
without messing with partioning (which at the time was scary to me). Of
course I tried it but I didn't actually use it that much until 7.10 due
to the fact that my wireless dongle (RT2571 based) caused the system to
completly freeze up. Now I rarely ever boot in windows and use Ubuntu.
david goolie wrote:
> Started using in college and now I use Ubuntu as my primary pc in my
> day job. I remote in to my microsuck hahahaha then return to my
> stability.
>
> I don't know the back end of the OS. I really wish I could grasp it.
> All I know I use it all the time and I use it to do data recovery for
> XP all the time.
>
> I would like to know how to use ubuntu live cd to change admin
> password in microsoft.
> XP\vista
>
> --- On *Mon, 7/6/09, Joshua S. Irving /<hetirv at comcast.net>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Joshua S. Irving <hetirv at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
> To: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 10:59 AM
>
> While in High School, was a big computer geek, and I had heard of
> Linux,
> but I didn't pick it up because I didn't think there were many
> programs
> for it. Then, during my senior year the Sys Admin for our School
> system
> talked to my computer class about Linux and he gave us each a
> computer
> and a Feisty Fawn disk... After about a week, I was sold. After
> about
> 6 months of dual booting, I took the plunge and I now run just
> Linux. I
> have tried other distros, but nothing seems to have that same ease of
> use as Ubuntu.
>
> -Het Irv
>
> Travis Newman wrote:
> > We tried sharing our conversion stories in a meeting once, but
> perhaps
> > fast moving IRC chat was not the best place to share, so lets
> try now.
> >
> > I came to Linux on Slackware 3.5. Bad choice to start with. It was
> > Winter 1998, and I had just gotten my first computer about 2 months
> > before. I had barely used computers at all before then, and it
> was my
> > first experience with the internet. But even after a short time
> using
> > PC's I had already discovered that I was being held back by
> Windows. I
> > had always had major curiosity with my PC-- always trying things to
> > see what I could and couldn't do. I used the restore CD quite a
> bit.
> > When I learned that I could use something besides Windows, I
> jumped on it.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Slackware, especially at verion 3.5, was not very
> good
> > for new users. I could never get XFree86 to start, so it was all
> > command line. Configuring an X server from the command line is
> pretty
> > rough. So it was just about 2 days before I went back to Windows.
> >
> > As the years went by I tried various versions of RedHat and
> Mandrake,
> > and finally started using Linux more than just to tinker with
> Fedora
> > Core 1, but I was still primarily on Windows. When I first tried
> > Gentoo in 2004, I started using it more than Windows, and with
> Ubuntu
> > I finally went all Linux. I still use Windows here and there, but
> > Ubuntu is home for me. I still try a few distros here and there,
> but
> > none match what I want to do with my PC like Ubuntu.
> >
> > Your turn!!
>
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