On Friday 03 March 2006 21:55, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > I touched a Windows computer for the first time in the year 2000, > when I was in the 9th standard.. I could barely use the mouse. Before > that, in the 7th standard, I had used some weird thing called Logo or > something. Anyway. So, my first experience with Windows was in a > cyber cafe. I was there to get a 'feel' of the internet. > > In 2003. I was studying in VESP, Chembur. I had mastered Dreamweaver > and stuff. I had decent knowledge of Windows. I was a semi-geek. I > had heard the word Linux mentioned somewhere and I had seen lilo on > one of the lab computers showing off the words linux and windows. > > I got my first computer 2003. I installed RH9 on it along with > Windows 98 and XP. I didn't know what to do with Gnome, but I liked > KDE back then. But I couldn't get stuff like internal modem working. > RH9 didn't last too long on my computer, but back then, I loved > Windows XP. > > The following year, I quit college in my 3rd (and final) year. There > were quite a few personal problems. That's when I started using > Linux, in March 2004, out of curiosity. I think I tried SuSE 9.1 back > then, along with Mandrake. I liked SuSE, but I loved Linux in > general. It was something new, something different and something to > actually learn. > > By the end of 2004, I had Gentoo 2004.3 installed on my computer. > Gentoo taught me quite a bit actually. But then for some reason that > I don't remember, I stopped using Linux for a few months in 2005. > Then, with 2005.1, I was back to Gentoo and since then I've been on > Linux. > > In the meanwhile, I haven't gone back to college. People tell me that > I should complete my 3rd year because right now, my qualification is > just SSC. I don't think I don't want to complete college, because I'd > rather be doing Linux. > > So what do I plan to do? Well, I'd want to contribute in whatever way > that I can. I'd want to learn this thing and become the absolute > master. I don't want a job though. I want to teach. I want to spread > Linux. I'm good at teaching. That'll be my career. I don't care about > getting paid Rs. 50,000 a month. Rs. 10,000 would suffice me, because > my needs are minimalistic. I'd want to be able to pay off my bills, > buy myself decent clothes and food, pay for my internet connection > and upgrade my computer from time to time. I'll try to save some > money to buy music and books from time to time. I would love that to > be my life! > > Anyway, I don't know why I wrote all this. I hope you don't feel that > you've wasted your valuable time reading this. If people actually do > read the whole thing, I expect them to not tell me that I'm stupid or > idiotic, because firstly, I know what I'm doing and secondly, I > wouldn't care about what people would say. > > So anyway, THAT's why I'm here.
Bravo! Very well written. I too love teaching. I used to teach C / C++ but the students should be interested :( -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
