Wolfey
December 29th, 2005, 12:01 AM
(Giving a clear and descriptive title for a topic used for introducing oneself is a little tricky to do sometimes :p)
Hello. This is not the first time I have used a distribution of Linux (which was a few years ago at a tech school, in a Linux class where we were working with Red Hat), but it is the first time I have had one properly working on a computer that I own - in this case, a recently-purchased laptop that had Ubuntu (5.04) preinstalled along with Windows XP (Professional, Service Pack 2).
I've been wanting to try out Linux since I first tried it out at school back then (that experience was also responsible for me choosing to switch to Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer), as I feel it would help to be experienced in the use of more than one operating system, as well as seeing what I can do in each.
I first tried to get various distributions of Linux to work on my older computer, but my attempts there were unsuccessful, although this may have been the fault of that computer's hardware: Most of the distributions on CD that I tried were just skipped over (at the time I thought it was from a problem in those distributions, but later found out that it was due to the CD-ROM drive, which went from intermittently picking up the disks to not picking up any CD at all, eventually requiring that drive to be replaced), and the ones that did manage to load had some issues with the hardware (probably due to hardware issues that were already present before trying out these distributions, like with the CD-ROM drive).
With the laptop, though, Ubuntu's working just fine, and it's been interesting seeing what I can do with it so far :)
Hello. This is not the first time I have used a distribution of Linux (which was a few years ago at a tech school, in a Linux class where we were working with Red Hat), but it is the first time I have had one properly working on a computer that I own - in this case, a recently-purchased laptop that had Ubuntu (5.04) preinstalled along with Windows XP (Professional, Service Pack 2).
I've been wanting to try out Linux since I first tried it out at school back then (that experience was also responsible for me choosing to switch to Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer), as I feel it would help to be experienced in the use of more than one operating system, as well as seeing what I can do in each.
I first tried to get various distributions of Linux to work on my older computer, but my attempts there were unsuccessful, although this may have been the fault of that computer's hardware: Most of the distributions on CD that I tried were just skipped over (at the time I thought it was from a problem in those distributions, but later found out that it was due to the CD-ROM drive, which went from intermittently picking up the disks to not picking up any CD at all, eventually requiring that drive to be replaced), and the ones that did manage to load had some issues with the hardware (probably due to hardware issues that were already present before trying out these distributions, like with the CD-ROM drive).
With the laptop, though, Ubuntu's working just fine, and it's been interesting seeing what I can do with it so far :)