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Diary Of A Linux Newbie: The First Year
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| Just a year ago -- April 21, 2009 to be
| exact -- I installed a Linux distribution.
| I installed it from a DVD of Ubuntu 8.10,
| Intrepid Ibex, that came with an issue of
| Linux Pro magazine I bought from a news
| stand, and I put it on a hand-me-down
| eMachine with 384MB RAM (the other 128MB
| being dedicated graphics). It was the first
| time I had ever installed an operating
| system. In fact, it was the first time I
| had ever installed anything at all,
| anytime, anywhere. I had always just called
| for (and paid for) professional help from a
| neighbor who extended me rates more
| favorable than his enterprise customers
| paid. Raised at IBM, he had become a born-
| again Microsoft True Believer and wanted to
| keep us all happy Windows users.
|
| [...]
|
| You see, Mr. Ulanoff was apparently intent
| on generating FUD in support of his
| publication's proprietary-system
| advertisers like Microsoft and Apple. He
| described his experience at installing
| Ubuntu 8.10 as if it were the most
| computer-threatening, nerve-wracking,
| brain-challenging experience of his life.
| Zapped computer. Several required
| reinstalls of Windows XP Pro (which he made
| sure to say he tossed off quickly with his
| indominatble expertise). Finally, with a
| lot of help from experts both in his office
| and online, he heroically managed to get it
| up and running. There was no account of
| what he actually DID with it.
|
| And here's a thing for all Linux fans to
| take into account: the working (read
| "paid") reviewers derive their income from
| corporations that advertise in the
| publications for which they write. How
| likely is it for them to heap praise on a
| system that offers a viable, inexpensive,
| and sometimes superior product to the ones
| which are the ultimate source of their pay?
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/7029/1/
Recent:
Linux: Can it get any easier?
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| Recently I did some articles on Samba and
| various ways to share folders in Linux. Now,
| normally Samba can be pretty tricky to set up
| right. Oh sure, there are tools to help you
| out with this (and some of those tools
| actually work quite well), but the end user
| doesnât want to have to monkey with Samba. In
| fact, the end user doesnât want (or even
| need) to know what Samba is. End users just
| wants to be able to tell their computers to
| share out a folder to other users. Period.
|
| Of course, most of you are thinking - yeah
| rightâon Linux? Even with Windows you
| typically have to join either a workgroup or
| a domain to make file sharing easy. So how in
| the world could Linux make this easier than
| it is on Windows? Believe it or not, it now
| is.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1310
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