I’ve been a computer user for over 20 years. I was 7 years of age when I first sit in front of “Radio Shack model 1 ” and then Later "Color Computer from Radio Shack" after that CPU, Ms Dos, OS/9,win 3.1, win 95, win 98, etc.. Until now, I had give Linux a go! (it was many years ago) but I couldn't get install on my hardware at the time. My good friend Curt work his butt off help me install it.... Then I used Ubuntu 6.0.4 and WOW!.. Now I am in love with the OS. Everything is perfect, I can customize most of the things visually or technically.. Ubuntu can never be compared in visualization with Compiz (in comparison with windows). This OS is really quick and provides you everything free.. You can watch your favorite movies and series (any codecs), internet surfing is very fast, this OS detected all of my hardware and I didn't have to install anything to get them worked, they are already installed. Installing software is very easy with Synaptic packet manager (or even so easy with “sudo apt-get install” commands).. To give it sum up, this new release of Linux really rocks, and its so hard to leave it and turn back to MS... I would not go back to Microsoft any way.... I am having joy learning Linux commands and deeper details of the OS. Its so hard to believe everything comes free with this OS. You can download any software written by anybody to meet your requirements. For example, I didnt have to install any software to open my microsoft office files such as doc, xls..in Linux. You have to pay quite good money to install MS Office.. Openoffice software came free with Linux. There are so much things to talk about the beauties of this operating system but its way too better to install and start using & learning it. The Microsoft users should know that, it takes some time to customize the things on your desktop, icons colors fonts, sizes etc.. But make it sure that after customizing the things on your desktop, you will see how cool alternatives and themes you can get.. Wow Ubuntu.. Ubuntu.. Ubuntu..
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is Here!
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Ken
Categories:
Remembering the past
1 comments:
Ken, that was 1997 and I nearly cooked your laptop's screen!
Those were the heady days of hand-edited modlines in Xwindow xfree86.conf files.
Being a Debian user, I appreciate Ubuntu making things, or trying to make them anyway, easier.
By 2000 when I gave up Win95 for lost, installation was so very much easier.
I, too, started on a TRS-80 Mod 1.
By: Curt Howland on June 6, 2010 at 2:27 PM
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