12.27.04
Forcing myself to love that penguin
I decided recently to force myself into the world of Linux. There were several Linux based projects out there that I wanted to play around with, but without having much of a clue of how these operating systems even worked, I knew I had to wear some training wheels before really attempting serious.
I decided on Linux distro(bution) of Fedora (Core 3). I didn't have a preference as to which distro to use, but Fedora is a continuing free offer from Redhat Linux, and Redhat was the most familiar name to me.
I must admit, for years I've bought into the rumor that Linux was an unuser friendly operating system. Esspecially coming from a Microsoft Windows (NT) background, I wasn't expecting the install process to be easy at all. I was gladly wrong.
I decided to sacrifice my Dell Inspirion 8200 laptop to get to know Fedora. Suprisingly, everything (with the exception of my Netgear wireless card) installed without a hitch. There was NOTHING that went wrong! While I'm sure there are things that could likely be tweaked and tuned, in shot I have a fully functional laptop. Even my display (Ultra-sharp LCD) is rendering correctly.
The only real problems I ran into was learning how to install applications. Not that it's hard, just different. I plan to commit myself to 6 months Linux use. I figure by then I would know enough about it to truly appreciate its power and appeal.
Being a child of the "computer revolution", from elementary school through HS graduation, I grew up using Mac's. I actually had to learn to use Windows at 18 years old....I still used Xerox's Tabworks in 94 ;-) I figure that if I could manage that, I can manage Linux too!
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