Ubuntu-us-va Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5
rschafer
rhosigma at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 23:24:07 BST 2009
I first started playing with Ubuntu during 6.10. I consider myself a geek
and wanted to try something new, I was getting sick of windows. I started
with SuSe, then went to Mandrake, then Ubuntu and stopped there. I found it
the easiest to use. With more options that I was looking for. I dual booted
for a while until about 8.03 where I found out that I have absolutely no use
for windows anymore. Between 8.03 and 9.03 i managed to convert both my
wife's laptop and the kids PC strictly to Ubuntu. Now none of the 4
computers in my home are running windows, we are all UBUNTU.......
--
-Ryan Schafer
Ubuntu Virginia LoCo Team
Tidewater/Hampton Roads Representative
rhosigma at gmail.com
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> 1. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (Glenn Tobey)
> 2. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (Kevin McKinley)
> 3. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (Joshua S. Irving)
> 4. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (dasnipa at gmail.com)
> 5. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (Travis Newman)
> 6. Re: How did you come to use Linux? (dasnipa at gmail.com)
> 7. Ubuntu Virginia Team meeting reminder (1m.0n.f1r3 at gmail.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:28:13 -0400
> From: Glenn Tobey <gletob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
> To: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
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> 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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> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:33:06 -0400
> From: Kevin McKinley <kevin at siriusmaritime.us>
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
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> Cool!
>
> Where was your school system?
>
> Kevin
>
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:59:42 -0400
> "Joshua S. Irving" <hetirv at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:38:43 -0400
> 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
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> Park View High School, Mecklenburg Co.
>
> Kevin McKinley wrote:
> > Cool!
> >
> > Where was your school system?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:59:42 -0400
> > "Joshua S. Irving" <hetirv at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:08:34 +0000
> From: dasnipa at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
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> My college computer science dept. was a linux only shop (awesome). when
> I was an underclassman they had an old version of redhat and then before I
> enter the upper classes they had upgraded to debian (pre-sarge). That was my
> first exposure.
> On my personal side. Prior to becoming a computer science major I had
> taken an old computer (200 mhz) and went through installs for around 10
> different distros. That was definitely one of the best learning exeriences.
> Especially when I went through the stage 1 oldschool bootstrap gentoo
> install. I highly recommend it for it you want to learn what every config
> file does. Ever.
> When I reached upperclass status is when I started messing around with
> linux to replace my desktop. As the coursework was becoming more time
> consuming, I found that it was much easier being able to ssh into my act at
> my convenience rather than work around lab schedules. (They allowed vnc
> which was nice but awkward at times). I started with debian since that's
> what the lab used, but after having problems with hardware compatibility I
> switched to ubuntu. My first version was breezy (circa 2005).
> Now that I'm out in the workforce, I'm pleased that my job is within a
> unix environment. I've also done dev work for pidgin and freeciv and some
> testing for ubuntu releases on the side.
> P.S. My license plate is 'KUBUNTU' so if you see me out on the road.
> Honk!
>
> Greg
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:41:21 -0400
> From: Travis Newman <panickedthumb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
> To: dasnipa at gmail.com
> Cc: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
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> >
> > Especially when I went through the stage 1 oldschool bootstrap gentoo
> > install. I highly recommend it for it you want to learn what every config
> > file does. Ever.
>
>
> This was one of the best learning experiences I've ever done. I've
> completed
> it a few times (used to use Gentoo exclusively), and I learned more about
> that than a year of experience before. I insisted that my wife try it a few
> years ago since she was getting into Linux more.
>
>
> > P.S. My license plate is 'KUBUNTU' so if you see me out on the road.
> > Honk!
> >
>
> Wait, what part of Virginia are you from? I saw either UBUNTU or KUBUNTU a
> few years ago, though I can't remember where we were traveling.
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:57:07 +0000
> From: dasnipa at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
> To: "Travis Newman"
> <panickedthumb at gmail.com>,travis.c.newman at gmail.com
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> I'm from Culpeper. From time to time I'll drive in NoVA usually around
> the centreville/stanardsville/fairfax area. A couple times I've driven down
> to the villa appalachia winery south of blacksberg. Until a couple weeks ago
> it was attached to an old red toyota. Now its on my black mazda6.
> Greg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Newman <panickedthumb at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:41:21
> To: <dasnipa at gmail.com>
> Cc: <ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
>
>
> >
> > Especially when I went through the stage 1 oldschool bootstrap gentoo
> > install. I highly recommend it for it you want to learn what every config
> > file does. Ever.
>
>
> This was one of the best learning experiences I've ever done. I've
> completed
> it a few times (used to use Gentoo exclusively), and I learned more about
> that than a year of experience before. I insisted that my wife try it a few
> years ago since she was getting into Linux more.
>
>
> > P.S. My license plate is 'KUBUNTU' so if you see me out on the road.
> > Honk!
> >
>
> Wait, what part of Virginia are you from? I saw either UBUNTU or KUBUNTU a
> few years ago, though I can't remember where we were traveling.
>
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> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: 1m.0n.f1r3 at gmail.com
> Subject: Ubuntu Virginia Team meeting reminder
> To: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
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> There will be an Ubuntu Virginia team meeting at 8pm on Tuesday. It will be
> in #ubuntu-us-va on irc.freenode.net.
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