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must have been 16 or 17. Red hat was the one but could never get the modem to work. so its space was filled by win 98. 15 years later.... Ubuntu. let's see if it lasts. so far so good. though lately i am thinking about switching to Debian (stable) on the linux maschine. never left windows though....
Read the easy to understand, lots of pics Ubuntu manual.
Do i need antivirus/firewall in linux?
Full disk backup (newer kernel -> suitable for newer PC): Clonezilla
User friendly full disk backup: Rescuezilla
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Nice to see someone close to my age. I installed my first Linux distro, 7.04 Feisty Fawn at age 47.Originally Posted by Paddy Landau
5 Cups of Ubuntu
I've been using Linux on and off since I was 12 - alternating with Mac OS.
Mandrake (Mandriva) was my first experience. Followed by RedHat, then Ubuntu.
Now back to Mac OS again.
First Cup of Ubuntu
I Was about.. 6? Yeah, My Dad made me switch, Now I love it! Ive probably tried every kind of Linux there is, But i'm sticking with Xubuntu for awhile!
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I was a sassy young lad of 58. Yes, fifty-eight.
"Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.
What big eyes you have!
I was in my 50's when I first used Linux. In 2004 and 2005, I tried Red Hat, Debian, SLAX, SuSE, KNOPPIX, Mandrake, and other distros. It think the first Ubuntu I tried was 6.06. 6.06 was the first LTS. I didn't know what LTS was so I upgraded the computer running Ubuntu every 6 months until 8.04 was released. I had more than one computer at the time and I could boot from more than one disk drive.
I used UNIX in the 1970's when working at NASA. Adopting Linux was fairly easy for me.
Last edited by Old_Grey_Wolf; January 3rd, 2013 at 02:10 AM.
Use whatever OS or desktop works for you. Dual boot or use VMs if you want. Backup your computer regularly, and definitely before upgrading, partitioning, or installing an OS.
No support requests by PM please.
Gee! These Aren't Roasted!
Since I was 30 and I'm nearly 39.
May the Ubuntu Be With You!
I don't remember. AH' but i was so much older then I'm younger than that now.
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First Cup of Ubuntu
12 or younger like back in 1989 with amiga OS kinda like a linux as the CLI or amiga shell , then right into slackware very early on
with a altos 586 or ( 8086 x 4 CPU's )
I'v been a hardware guy , still not much of a software guy , I'v ran linux on every ting from 8086 8088 (186 Back pl-board) 286 386 486 MC68000 MC68030 VOrtex Atonce 286 Card Long Live the Linux
5 Cups of Ubuntu
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