In our house we are running various versions of Ubuntu. My desktop is
Kubuntu 8.04, Wife's desktop and laptop are Ubuntu 8.04.1, My Acer
Aspire One is running "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" based on 8.04.1... I
haven't seen a good reason to move to 8.10....
I started looking into Linux in the late 90's when my BBS switched to an
ISP. Back then you had a choice of a PPP account or for less money a
shell account. I chose the shell account due to the fact they were
cheap! One thing you learned quickly you could do a whole lot more than
text based irc, e-mail, web browsing if you noticed on login it was
running on Linux and you found a mentor to teach you the ropes. I was
able to telnet all over the place, use a now practically instinct way of
surfing called Gopher, ftp for fast transfering of files around the
world. This got me interested to say the least... I tried installing I
believe it was Slackware.... gave up, installing Linux was WAAAAY harder
back then!
In 1998 I had Redhat installed for a while but the gui's were still
pretty flakey and I un-installed seeing it had to finish cooking before
I could use it as my everyday computer OS... In 2005 I WGA came into my
life and after calling MS a few times in 6mo's I got ticked off with
BigBrother Bill Gates and decided to see how far Linux had come. Thats
when I got my surprise! I was amazed at how far in 5 years KDE, Gnome,
and all had progressed as well as ease of installation. I tried Kubuntu
5.04 and loved it switching off Windows with in 2 months of testing.
Over time I've tried OpenSUSE 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.0 off and on as I
also did Fedora 9, Debian 3.1, PCLinuxOS 2007, and still I am in the
Ubuntu world.
I'm older and don't like screwing with things anymore....on the other
hand I don't want to pay Xandros (they have a EULA.... I hate EULA's ),
Linspire, haven't really looked into it... Ubuntu suits me for now.
PCLinuxOS is a really good alternative though. I really liked their 2007
edition but I was kind of wary of such a new distro with a group of
developers that are only known by nick names.....
Sorry so long but ya asked why LOL....
Devlin
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