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08-09-2007, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,378
|  How did you come across Linux?
How did you come across Linux?
I come across Linux back in 2000 while attending a night school class on web design I was interested in the idea of free software and decided to get a copy of red hat, luckily my college had a T1 connection and a sympathetic tutor who kindly reserved a computer to download a copy for me ever since I have been a no again an off again Linux user.
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08-09-2007, 02:43 PM
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Indeed. Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,554
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A couple years ago I built my current computer, but I forgot to get a copy of XP. It was at night and I wanted to try out my new computer, so I downloaded and installed Ubuntu. I began messing around with it, and after a few days I realized I didn't need Windows at all. Since then I have used Linux and Linux only.
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08-09-2007, 03:45 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,127
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When I was 12, I used the Ubuntu LiveCD to bypass the parental controls placed on my PC. Not just for porn, mind 
I also wanted to torrent and play online games.
I owe so much to Canonical
They SHIP you CDS for FREE...don't even pay shipping...that is awesome.
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08-09-2007, 06:31 PM
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Not A Super Techie Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 495
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because it was free
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08-09-2007, 06:39 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 162
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Downloading a copy of **** Small Linux after reading about it on Lifehacker.com, then installing ubuntu on an extra computer i have.
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08-09-2007, 08:07 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
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it was about 2 years ago when my friend told me about it. he was saying stuff like "linux is so awesome", or "its amazing", or "it makes windows look like a pile of crap"
and i was just thinking "it can't be that great", but one day i decided to try it out. i tried pclinuxos .93a "BigDaddy", but i still dual booted with windows, but i slowly used windows less and less. then i tried ubuntu and then openSuSE.
i just started loving Linux more and more. Then vista came out and it looked really good, so i got it.
it made me hate windows even more. it even messed up my partition tables and stuff, so i completely erased everything, even reset the MBR and started ove again. so now i have only ubuntu and when my friend gives me my opensuse DVD back, i will be back to having ubuntu and opensuse, except this time without windows.
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08-09-2007, 08:35 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,127
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I think its amusing that **** Small Linux hits the word filter.
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08-09-2007, 11:47 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 489
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would it be filtered iF it was all one word?
i will try: damnsmall Linux
__________________ Torvalds was contemptuous of Microsoft's claims and has asked Redmond to name the patent infringements so that their veracity can be challenged and workarounds found.
"Naming them would either make it clear that Linux is not infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim,"
"So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?"
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08-12-2007, 12:31 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 180
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Oh it was easy to find. After I learned to love BSD, it didn't take long before I had Linux people fighting me on every greasy Internet accord about my semi-fetish.
Nah, honestly, it's fairly popular. You play video games (especially Starcraft), you'll hear 14 year olds talking about their awesome $5000 Linux server and their abilities to hack the FBI and any other government agency.
But of course, I like Linux in the same fashion as I do BSD. Linux, brought out of the dispute between BSD and AT&T. How can I not love it, honestly?
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08-12-2007, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,826
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when i first saw this joke 2 years ago:
Have you seen the new Ubuntu release?
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