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08-Dec-2007, 04:20 PM
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 Anyway, I was up until the early hours last night "tweaking"  Bye Bye Windows !
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14-Dec-2007, 09:31 PM
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 "A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." <Groucho Marx> 
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15-Jan-2008, 10:32 PM
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It's been a while since I posted so just popped in to say hello and let you know how my new Linux experience is going!
Well after a month of using Xubuntu 7.10, I have come to the conclusion that my trusty old pentium 3 desktop PC is far from the scrapheap. I invested in some more ram so I now have the maximum that my mobo takes which is 512Mb so it runs a bit smoother than what it would have. One thing that amazed me was the little to no "system hang" time after startup compared with waiting sometimes anything up to 20 mins on WinXP before i could do anything at all. Within 2 minutes of booting up linux i was able to open Firefox, load rhythmbox media player and log in to Messenger with aMSN! There seems to be a very steep learning curve invovled when you have no previous experience of a linuxOS, and one site i have found very helpfull is LinuxCommand.org, which has helped me learn the basics of the bash prompt. Installing new software from .tgz files is something i am still trying to get the hang of so at the moment, so I am sticking to only getting software that i really need and using Synaptic package manager to get it, which does all the untaring and installing for you. It is definately not the "all singing , all dancing" version of linux compared to its parent distro Ubuntu, but this was the reason I installed as it was released with people like me using low end PC's in mind. Short and sweet, but I thing someone elses literary skills do this topic more justice. Juice142 also has a thread on this topic, so i will leave it there for now. 
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