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A Linux Story
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| I was about five years old when my father
| showed me my first computer. It was an old
| 8086, and it had 5.25 floppy drive, a shiny
| new 3.5 floppy drive, and a 10MB hard
| drive. When he gave it to me, it ran
| nothing but MSDOS. As a starter machine, I
| didn't really care. I was just stoked to
| have a computer, and when my father showed
| me how to get to video games, and how to
| type a text document, I was thrilled. In
| 1993, my father got himself a Pentium
| machine, and I received his 486. The 486
| also had DOS on it, but when I tried to
| play my old games everything went by too
| quickly. I asked my dad what was wrong, and
| he said that the games I had been playing
| relied on the CPUs clockspeed. At this
| point, he gave me a thin orange book,
| Understanding Microprocessors, which was
| published by Motorola. He also showed me a
| book on his shelf that taught me a bit
| about electricity. A month after this
| encounter, I went back and asked him if
| there were any operating systems that would
| run in protected mode. He told me, yes.
|
| [...]
|
| In 2005, I graduated High School, got
| myself a 64bit machine, installed Slackware
| on it, and joined the Marine Corps. I was
| injured and discharged '07. I came home
| went to college, graduated, and built a new
| machine. Guess what. I still use Slackware.
| Everyone tells me that I'm stuck in the
| past, but at least I installed the 64bit
| version ;)
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-story.html
Refusing to Treat Self-Inflicted Wounds
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| I started at the beginning. I told her why
| Linux was put on the computer and how these
| problems were non-existent on that system.
| I spoke to her for 3 minutes without her
| saying anything. I kind of figured it out.
|
| "Is he standing right there."
|
| she answered simply.
|
| "Yes".
|
| They were frightened of him.
|
| This Thursday, I am going back there to fix
| this problem. I am going to set up the old
| Optiplex in the bedroom for him to use and
| I've told her that the computer we gave her
| is HER property. He is not to touch it.
| Linux will be installed on that computer.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2010/02/refusing-to-treat-self-inflicted-wounds.html
Recent:
- From OS X to Ubuntu: 2 Years Later
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| I have to say that over the last couple of years,
| Iâve really come to love Ubuntu. Until recently,
| I rarely felt the need to go back to Windows or
| OS X (Iâll tell you more about that in another
| blog post). Iâve been generally pleased with each
| new release of Ubuntu and enjoy seeing the
| incremental improvements. Ubuntu has come an
| unbelievable way since I first tried it almost 5
| years ago.
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http://www.starryhope.com/linux/ubuntu/2010/os-x-to-ubuntu-2-years-later/
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