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asterisktom
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Just a note to say "Hello, Linux World" in a forum that I have come to really appreciate, but have only lurked. Thanks to all of you here who give great advice and information.
My first computer was a Mac Performa in the early 90s, and I was pretty much a Mac person for about 10 years. I see now that what I liked best in that OS; freedom of choice, customizability, individuality, are actually best embodied in GNU-Linux. I have moved over from Windows (which my job at the time required) to Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I dual-booted for a couple years, but now I only run Linux. My main distro I use now is Linux Mint 15 on my Inspiron with Knoppix 7.2 as a faithful sidekick. I also have a stack of isos that I make of various distros that I give out here.
Here in China I am trying to put in a good word whenever possible about switching over to Linux. This is (at least in the school environment where I work) the land of Windows - especially Windows XP. I suspect that many of them are the Chinese version of "open source" - really cheap, unlicensed copies. The computer the university gave me here is a 32-bit pre-Y2K dinosaur with Windows XP and some kind of Chinese nanny program (360). But now I run a Knoppix flashdrive on that. Surprised how good it looks.
Anyhow, just wanted to say, Hi.
Tom Riggle (asterisktom)
Dalian University of Finance and Economics
My first computer was a Mac Performa in the early 90s, and I was pretty much a Mac person for about 10 years. I see now that what I liked best in that OS; freedom of choice, customizability, individuality, are actually best embodied in GNU-Linux. I have moved over from Windows (which my job at the time required) to Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I dual-booted for a couple years, but now I only run Linux. My main distro I use now is Linux Mint 15 on my Inspiron with Knoppix 7.2 as a faithful sidekick. I also have a stack of isos that I make of various distros that I give out here.
Here in China I am trying to put in a good word whenever possible about switching over to Linux. This is (at least in the school environment where I work) the land of Windows - especially Windows XP. I suspect that many of them are the Chinese version of "open source" - really cheap, unlicensed copies. The computer the university gave me here is a 32-bit pre-Y2K dinosaur with Windows XP and some kind of Chinese nanny program (360). But now I run a Knoppix flashdrive on that. Surprised how good it looks.
Anyhow, just wanted to say, Hi.
Tom Riggle (asterisktom)
Dalian University of Finance and Economics