Thought it was time I introduced myself

John Botscharow info at jbotscharow.com
Tue May 20 01:49:22 UTC 2008


Greetings from north-central Arkansas in the USA. I switched to Ubuntu 
a couple of months ago after too many years of various incarnations of 
windows. This is actually my second time using a Linux-based machine. I 
tried to set up a different distribution a couple of years ago, but had 
a lot of problems configuring it to work with my machine - an old Sony 
VAIO.

No real issues with setting up Ubuntu on my HP Pavillion slimline 
though, which is a good thing because no one will ever mistake me for a 
programmer of any sort. LOL My forte is writing and blogging - http://
jbotscharow.com if anyone is interested.

I love Ubuntu. I use Xubuntu with all the xfce4 extras because I like 
the light desktop since my computer has limited resources - only 512K 
RAM and a small processor - less than 2.0 Mhz; also because of vision 
problems I need a dark theme with white fonts - including the 
hyperlinks and xfce3-dusk is just what my opthamologist ordered. LOL I 
use gdm with some GNOME apps like Balsa and epiphany browser. Also use 
my old standby from my windows days - Firefox and OpenOffice. Both work 
muxh better with Linux than they do with windows!

Anyway, I've been lurking here for a month or so and ave no issues, but 
just wanted to say hello.

Peace!

John Botscharow






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