How did you come to use Linux?

[David Glasscock]

Glen

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/  

I downloaded this and burnt to cd

Worked well for changing the admin Password for a friend that forgot his PW.

David 

 

From: ubuntu-us-va-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-us-va-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Tobey
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 2:28 PM
To: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?

 

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  <mailto:hetirv at comcast.net>
<hetirv at comcast.net> wrote:


From: Joshua S. Irving  <mailto:hetirv at comcast.net> <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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