Almost coinciding with the history of the evolution of the KZKG ^ Gaara desktop, I bring you this post (which although it seems an autobiography, it is not), where I tell you a little and in general how my history and experience with GNU / Linux.
It was 2007, when almost at the end of December I started working in my old workplace as Laboratory technician. He had just finished passing the Mandatory Military Service (SMO) and the last computer he had touched had a brand new Windows XP that it represented for me, a whole panacea.
I remember just before entering "the green" As we say to the SMO here, I read the news on the internet that there was an Operating System that could be run from a CD, without having to have a Hard Drive and that to top it off, they sent you to your house for free via Postal Mail. You can imagine that it was UbuntuAnd by the time the records arrived at my house, I was with my rifle in hand, standing guard in the parking lot of a Military Unit.
In the short time I had to pass, I never had a chance to really test Ubuntu, but then I finished my Military Service and began to work as I told you at the beginning, as a Laboratory Technician in a Polytechnic of Informatics (coincidentally in the same one in which I had graduated years before).
At the outset I was surprised how when I turned on the PC they assigned me, a curious Welcome screen came out to which they called Grub, and that allowed me to choose if I wanted to use Windows XP o Debian GNU / Linux. If there is one thing that I am proud of as a computer scientist, it is that I never want to try anything, and I have never been like those who are satisfied with what they know and what they have, so all new software called me the Attention.
So without thinking twice (to find out what that was) i selected Debian that it was a second option and I confess, it was as if Morpheus He would have given me a choice between the Red and the Blue pill.
My beginnings
KDE 3.X it ran through the veins of the motherboard at incredible speed. I had never noticed how slow it could be Windows XP until then. But not only did he run fast, he looked so much prettier. The fonts had a beautiful smoothing, the colors, the themes, the icons, everything was different, but above all the applications.
Since then I decided not to play anymore Windows XP, especially when my boss came and said:
»If in 2 months you learn to work with Linux, I will raise you to the position of Network and Systems Administrator»
An opportunity that he could not miss, knowing that the knowledge he could acquire would be unmatched.
Then came the first problem. I was working normally with my KDE, chatting in conversation, browsing with Konqueror, when for some reason that I do not remember, I decided to restart the PC. Everything perfect until you entered the welcome screen (KDM), I put my username, my password and MISTAKE!!! I couldn't access ..
Not knowing what to do, I went in search of a former professor who was now a work colleague (who happened to program the new blog topic), who had more knowledge about GNU / Linux. I remember he sat down, changed the TTY With the combination of keys Ctrl + Alt + F1, he used a command to see the disk space and with MC, he was deleting the unnecessary files that he had in the partition of Linux.
Now I tell you all this very easily, but by then each step my colleague took was a slap of astonishment and ignorance in my face. When he finished, he entered the session, stood up and said:
«The next problem you have, you look for it on the Internet, or you read the help, or I don't know, make something up»
And even though many may think: What a son of p $ # @, they don't know how much I appreciate those words. Having to fend for myself forced me to learn the hard way. The slightest problem I had (even when everything was solved by deleting a file, or making a minor change), I took an Installation CD and reinstalled everything. Without lying to you, in less than a month, I formatted and installed the PC about 56 times.
Luckily for me at that time I had access to the Internet, which is why I joined Communities is Debian and others where I was learning that before asking, I had to consult the system or application logs, where they taught me that sharing is great, and that using Free Software was having total control (or almost complete) of my Operating System.
Network and Systems Administrator
I tried so hard that in less than two months they raised me to the position of Network Administrator, and even without fully mastering the system, I had to learn to configure the first DNS, Proxy, FTP, etc. services that were implemented on GNU / Linux in my work. I was facing 3 servers Dell Power Edgeand with Windows 2000 Server and only one of them had GNU / Linux where ran a Postfix it needed some tweaking in its settings.
Every day he learned new things. With bind9 I had a good fight all because of a semicolon (;). I started each service little by little, reading a manual here and another there. At the same time, I was getting to know new Desktop Environments, how each one worked, and I was entering the varied world of Distributions.
I confess that although I like Network Administration, I lean more towards what it is Web Design and Programming. That helped me to start working with CMS, to take my first steps like webmaster, to install Forums, Social Media, in short, those who always had to change something in their appearance, so I had to familiarize myself with Gimp, Inkscape and other applications that by then, are not at all similar to the current versions, at least in terms of power, features and options.
So in general, in all that time I acquired knowledge in:
- Cache Proxy Service (Squid).
- Mail Service (Exim + Postfix + Dovecot + LDAP).
- DNS service (Bind9, dnsmasq).
- Firewall Service (Firehol)
- FTP service (pureFTP)
- Jabber and MI service.
- Other Network services.
- Xhtml+CSS.
- Bash.
- Gimp.
- inkscape.
I also learned some things as a Webmaster, the use of CMS as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, FlatPress and others. In web programming and SEO techniques.
Due to my tastes and preferences, little by little I became a member and coordinator of the Group of Users of Free Technologies in Cuba (GUTL), so I have been part of the dissemination, promotion and implementation of Open Source Software in various places including state centers, and I have organized and been part of important events such as the FLISOL.
Together with my colleague and former teacher AlainTM, we were pioneers and managers of the Migration to Free Software of many educational centers belonging to the Ministry of Education in my country, helping my old job to be the first educational center in the country that used 100% Free Software, both on PCs and in the curriculum.
Nowadays
Despite the fact that I no longer perform tasks like those mentioned above, something that I regret in many ways, my work always revolves around Free Software. Since 2007, every computer that has come into my hands has never stopped having it installed Debian, Ubuntu and even ArchLinux and almost always, in 99% of the cases, having these distributions as Main System, without double boot.
When I felt the need to share what I was learning, my old WordPress blog was born: elavdeveloper, xfceando, debianlife, linuxmintlife, adminlinux, which in the end were merged into a single idea, which was born with my colleague KZKG ^ Gaara and today it bears by name DesdeLinux.
My main objective remains the same, to share, to help and to be helped too. I still have a lot to learn, and I can say without fear, that I have not exploited even 90% of all the options it offers me GNU / Linux.
I am proud to have entered this world without fear, to have learned incredible things that have made me a better person and a better computer scientist. And I am happy that, thanks to this same blog, I have met incredible people who share many of my preferences and that without knowing them personally, I can have the pleasure of calling them friends, brothers, colleagues.
Today for today, either with KDE, Xfce, a terminal or any other environment that is presented, the computer with which you work will always have in your heart beating a GNU / Linux as God intended, because it has been more than 5 years feeling the freedom as it flows under my fingers, every time the home screen invites me to use Free software.
And this dear friends, it has been my experience. I would be delighted to meet yours.
It is shared. And it is appreciated. I also started in 2007, but unlike you, I had no computer skills and no one to ask, so it was quite long-suffering. But since everything is learned, the important thing is not to die for trifles
Thanks for sharing your experience. You're right: the important thing is not to die over trifles. As they would say in my country, a phrase that I have a certain hatred of: You have to know how to grow in the face of difficulties 😀
Great elav, I've been in Linux for 3 years and I keep learning about these GNU / Linux systems and discovering new distros, each one has its magic touch and I honestly love Linux
Thanks Sergio ^^
Good post partner, really yes 😉
Thanks 😛
I've been using Linux at home since 2005, if I remember correctly 🙂
linux is life
Impressive, I did not know you had done all that, it shows that you have very varied knowledge 🙂
Well yes, and I have only put general things. Too bad that in everything I have learned, I have not been able to delve into some specific topics and there are things that are being forgotten ..
Excellent post !!!!
I work with both systems at the same time, using a double boot, personally I work with Linux so as not to be left behind and to be able to tell those who think they know the subject and who think that Linux is the "maximum" that THEY ARE WRONG, with This is not to say that it is bad in its entirety, for certain environments it is good to use it, even to have it at home (of course with an internet connection), because that if Linux without Internet IS NOBODY, if you give up a tantrum , right there you have to use the internet because the help of the system is a disaster and why speak of the absence of an official documentation. In short, Linux is very good, but why does it not exceed 1% of users worldwide? That nobody knows is a mystery that not even the Taliban Liners themselves can explain. Anyway, I will continue using Linux, but never without abandoning the old Guillermo Puertas, better known as Billy and father of Microsoft. Thank you for your attention and I apologize for those who have hurt feelings
First of all welcome Morgoth. I am not going to enter into the debate of which system is better or not, it would even be in vain because you seem to be like other Cubans that I know who use Linux because it is imposed on them at work. What makes you think that you need the Internet for everything? It is true, the repositories, the updates are acquired that way, but if you installed at home, with a local repository and left the system ready, I see no reason why you have to update again, yes, Windows you do not You update it every day, nor its applications, which by the way, you also need the Internet to obtain them.
Linux help a disaster? I think you mean the Gnome visual help, for example, because if you don't know MAN is excellent within the scope of the game and tell me, do you really think Windows help is the best? Because none of the problems that I have had I have been able to solve with that help.
Another thing and to finish, you continue using the same figure that the rest of the Linux haters use. I am sure that we are no longer that insignificant 1%, that we are many more. But I imagine you are talking at the user level, because at the server level, we all know who is close to 1%.
regards
Touch
Excellent story! It is incredible how GNU / Linux can mark our lives, I began to study programming without my own computer, then they donated me a machine with very few features that I rescued thanks to DSL, today I work as a programmer and I have a respectable machine with Arch 😀 -the others two home machines have Ubuntu-
Oh! Great .. What language do you program on?
Elav, thanks for sharing this with us. I have been using only Linux for four years.
About the constant formatting that you gave the pc when you started in Linux, I think it is one of the best ways to learn (especially in Debian), install and configure again and again until you completely master the process and everything is as you you want.
regards
Thanks for the comments @Jotaele and @elendilnarsil
So inspiring…. I've only been on GNU / Linux for 2 years and already more than a year without double boot
Thanks ^ _ ^
Great article elav .. I've been using Linux for 3 years, sometimes intermittently, but more or less 3 years .. Articles like this make me seriously think about getting rid of the current dual-boot. That I only maintain for the idea of playing, but since I hardly play anymore, and that very soon we will have beautiful games on GNU / Linux, I don't see why we have the window occupying part of the disk. In most of the things you mention, I feel the same.
Well, to date I have not needed Windows for anything except playing NFS 😀
First of all, your story is amazing, you came across Linux a bit by chance, when you saw a machine with Debian and some Ubuntu CDs 🙂.
I've been using linux since 2008, I still remember Ubuntu with Gnome2 ... And now with Fedora 17, Mate and a lot of modified config. I double-booted months ago and I don't miss the xp I had before (xp doesn't boot in 20 seconds here like linux does).
It can be said that yes, I came across it by chance and because I'm curious, that if I had settled in with XP, maybe this blog wouldn't exist xD xD
I started a tilin (2001) before and it brought tears to my eyes, almost everything is as you say, although I only had a RedHat 7.2 and as a teacher a FreeBSD manual, which had NOTHING to do, but it taught me what it was about the system paths, daemons, basic configurations (some were similar), and other aspects of the system that were almost similar ...
Salu2 and continue like this brother ...
Thanks for the encouragement 😀
5 years ago I tried my first linux distro which was Linux MInt 5 Elyssa, of course the following year I had to go back to windows because the University gave some Computer Science courses that should have been called only Windows Course and Microsoft Office which was the only thing we learned for The following 9 months although of course we learned to make very advanced documents especially in excel and access, but the truth is I like linux more, but I spent almost 3 years without trying a linux distro until last year when I started with LMDE and then I was disappointed and I went to Debian with XFCE, then I switched to LXDE and just yesterday I was finishing Configuring Fedora with LXDE since which is the first time I use fedora and I had some problems that I admit that if I had been a newbie I would have returned to Mint, now I have my computer don double boot, Debian and Fedora, maybe later I change fedora for suse that I am downloading it at the moment.
That is one of the great problems in Cuba today. We want to migrate and blah blah blah, but we still have lesson plans on Windows, or rather, dedicated exclusively to Windows tools .. ¬¬
Well, I could not imagine the path you had made hand in hand with TUX hahaha, I use linux at the domestic level since 2009 more or less in which I always have it with double boot, to play Windows and for everything else there is linux hahaha
Well, I have traveled an excellent path. I would do it a thousand times more 😀
Honestly, I am not going to make a debate out of this, firstly because I am also a Linux user, I handle it both in a desktop environment and in servers, so far it has not been imposed on me, I simply do it because I recognize its advantages, but I also know the monster its bowels (paraphrasing our Apostle), I know of Linux its thousand and one versions, as silly as some are absurd. I had been working with Ubuntu 10.04 because I prefer LTS, I am characterized by being stable and waiting like a child for the new version of Ubuntu 12.04, when installing it and taking a few days with it, I had no choice but to accept defeat, it was at least for My a total disappointment I had to migrate to Mint. The help of Microsoft Windows XP is a whole book on Networks for those who want to start in this world, by simply pressing F1 you have at your disposal an excellent manual, with everything that comes to mind including examples of how to do it, which I have checked with famous Linux MAN. Linux servers in the world as you say I would like to know where they are. I recently had a meeting with IT from many national companies as well as friends in the international area and they all answered me, I have windows server. The reasons are endless for having Windows. Linux 0, here I send you a link where you can check what I say http://www.desarrolloweb.com/de_interes/ranking-sistemas-operativos-julio-2012-7324.htmlThey are not neighborhood stories, the Linux community has to accept reality and understand that Windows will exist for a long time and while it is, Linux will remain in the shadows, as it has always been
I'll tell you something in my third world country, all companies use windows server until a few months ago that the most important company in Guatemala (Cementos Progreso) is starting to change their servers to Open Suse, but before they only used windows, why switch to linux now? Well, I don't know the truth, but let me tell you that Linux is the future and those who use windows server sooner or later will go to Linux, that's the way it is and always will be like that, the old technology is left and a new one is adopted that is better and more stable.
A year ago you said linux and they asked you if that was eaten, now you go to a company and ask what operating system their servers use, and they will tell you windows server, but we are training personnel to switch to Linux.
What does that tell you?
Let's see, I don't care if Windows lasts a thousand more years. If you want to use it, use it, I'll stick with my Linux, but that's not the point.
What help are we talking about? Because if we are going to mention an excellent, graphic and simple help as you like, then there is no better example than KHelpCenter. Have you used it?
I'll tell you more, I'm not saying that Windows is bad, but it's not a panacea either.
Morgoth, I think the problem is not that you like Windows more than Linux, but your way of coming here with that attitude of: "You thought Linux was the best, you are wrong." Who are you to come and tell me or whoever is wrong. All we are doing is sharing our Linux experience and expressing the love we have for this operating system, do you have a problem with that?
The quality of an OS is not measured by the number of users. Most people use Windows because it is what they find in stores and it is easier to use, since unfortunately many people do not use their computer knowledge to give two or three clicks here and there, for those people it is precisely Windows. Certainly Linux is for the few who want to go beyond that and find out how to install and configure an OS, how your system works, and how you can customize it. That's why few of us use Linux compared to people who use Windows. But to think that Windows is the best because your friends and most of the people use it is, flat, not to think.
He never said that we are wrong ...
I think that Morgoth has had and has his disappointments with Linux, I think that the way of expressing it, without getting to offend has not been the most correct, however the kernel of his message I understand, understand and support it in part. Linux was imposed on me although I confess that I have gotten used to it, but it is important to emphasize the inability of the Libre Office spreadsheet to recognize Windows Macros, and why speak of databases made in MS Access. With these problems, an enterprise-level migration is partially impossible. I am against those who see all Windows as the Dark Lord, that is exaggerated, there is no denying how important Windows has been for the technological development of the last two decades. And it will continue to develop. Linux faces a very large tree with very deep roots to remove, but it is not impossible. But removing it will not be accomplished by ignoring it and viewing everything from Microsoft as harmful. Both systems have good points. As well as an inexhaustible and unexplored universe of new tools, I believe that both can coexist.
Greetings Zulu:
I understand your point, but that's the main problem:
Why do you have to use Windows Macros ...?
In a business environment where you have been working with MS Windows for 10 years or more, you cannot ignore the work done, to migrate without causing trauma to users you must ensure that everything that worked in Windows continues to work the same or better in Linux, do you understand me? We have spreadsheets that have been in use for a long time and are immense in size, how do we expect everything to be done from 0? You understand me?
Zulu is right so much so that because of the university I am still obliged to use Microsoft Office from my debian, fedora and linuxmint 13 and more now that I am going to have the "informatics" seminar and it is in quotes because the content and evaluation of said seminar are: Windows 7 and Office 2010.
Because of these seminars, people believe that because you are a computer scientist you have a doctorate in Word or Excel when in reality you know the same thing or ask a little more than the person who asks you xD
Hahaha it's true, people say: This is computer science, it sure slips into the Office hahaha, and at least I, just the basics 😛
HAHAHA at home my mother bothers me all the time with that ... she tells me «I don't know what computer scientist you say you are if you don't know anything about excel»... God, there I take calm ... because if I answer him, HAHAHA. The detail is that once I had to go to her work to fix a disaster that her "supercomputer" couldn't fix, that ... the one she defends because she knows how to use Excel, HAHAHAHAHA.
Of course I understand you, but doing it is not impossible, it is simply more comfortable to wait for LibreOffice for example, do or have compatibility with what you want instead of changing the work philosophy, right?
Look, I'm telling you that I had the migration of a whole IPI on my back. When it comes to change issues, you cannot let users settle down, because they always protest, make a thousand excuses and in the end they continue to do so. What did we do? Well, we implemented, and when everyone started to get around the issue, many even did not want to know more about Windows. The most critical thing to migrate is always the Accounting System, the rest are trifles.
and it should be noted that what microsoft does is alter the standards, they do not use office automation standards ...
I'll tell you my story quickly, working as a mason assistant I was able to afford my first notebook, nothing special a hp-dv2 😛 It came with Windows Vista from the factory, and in some other taringa post I met Ubuntu, I downloaded it I tried it with wubi and I said ... not bad, I did a dualboot later. Then I said, what if I upgrade my view to windows 7? formatting everything ... the thing is that I could not and to this day either, I can not continue with the installation of windows hahaha from that day ubuntu was my main OS without any other, because it was simply easier to install 🙂 and that's it almost two years old. GREETINGS, very good blog!
Hehe interesting story, they themselves forced you to stay with Ubuntu 😀
In fact ... that MS Windows is easier to use than certain Gnu / Linux distributions ... is highly debatable (there are very well executed articles on www that discuss this point).
The difficulty is perhaps in learning a new way of doing things, let's say, for example, open a "software center" and look for what I want there, and install it by selecting it, instead of searching the internet for programs and cracks / serials. Even that perception with respect to the example, may change very soon, given the massification of OS like Android, people will understand that the common mechanism is to look for an "appstore" for such a task. Even MS Windows 8 profiles on that side.
But, far from discussions about technical benefits, what makes the Gnu / linux world more interesting is the ethical / moral bishop that puts its users in true communication.
Greetings.
Good story, elav (with the exception of the SMO, from which I had the good fortune to get away). I wish there were more people this curious, open-minded to the different and tenacious.
I also came to GNU / Linux by chance, more than six years ago.
One day, at a friend's house, I wanted to use his computer to send an email. He told me to use it without problem, that it was on. I looked out and noticed that the menu and applications were different from what I knew in W. xp. I asked him why he looked different. He told me that it was not Windows, but Ubuntu, a free system based on Linux, and that a computer friend of his had installed it to revive his machine that with xp no longer gave any more. I found it just great. From the beginning I was 100% determined, whatever it cost and for more incompatibility problems or things like that.
I think the next day I wrote to his friend (whom I knew too) to help me install Ubuntu. In less than a week I already had Ubuntu. Since then, not a shred of Windows have I had on my computers.
In the beginning it was quite annoying to the guy who installed Ubuntu for me, but I quickly began to manage on my own, by reading forums, manuals and, mainly, by trial and error. Over time I wanted to try "the mother of the lamb", for the very fact of being the basis of the distro I was using and, above all, because its philosophy, expressed in its social contract, was in line with my position regarding software . Since then, I use Debian ... and happy.
That's the attitude. At least me, nothing more to see and compare kmail with Outlook Express, Konqueror with iExplorer To give a couple of example, and see the quality of Linux applications, which in addition to being free, free, open, were better or the same, prompted me to continue with Debian and until the sun today 😀
Another thing that I loved is what I tell you in this post. By then, that and not catching a virus left and right, hooked me a lot .. 😀
What a good post elav!
I first experimented with Linux since around 2000, but the distributions at the time were a bit green when it came to desktop applications, which is the only thing I used to use, so I didn't go too deep. The most I did was experiment with a Winlinux that could be installed from Windows, and then I tried some knoppix or puppy, now I don't remember which one.
Fortunately, at the end of 2008 I was given the opportunity to start working as a computer scientist in a company because the previous one had left, and it happened that the server was a Red Hat 7.2 and the trainee who had remained in the department. I had no bloody idea how it worked, besides the computer scientist had left almost no text explaining the configuration, and the configuration files had almost no comments, so I was very excited (I like challenges), and I I started exploring / etc file by file and studying the manuals for the different commands. After 15 days I already understood the configuration quite well and little by little I began to optimize the services. What impressed me the most about Linux was the amount of services that could be run with so little hardware, and how secure and stable it was.
The flexibility that linux commands allowed me in combination with bash, I was captivated and encouraged to try a bunch of other distros (all I could get), tinker with compiz, etc., until eventually I stuck with Debian because it was the one that most allowed me to achieve a solution with minimal consumption, without giving up a vast repository.
I've been short on time recently, so I'm using LMDE, but I still love building a Debian package by package.
The funny thing is, I liked Linux so much that I put it on my work PC and also at home, and I started to forget how to do things in Windows, so now I almost force myself to use Windows at home to stay prepared (and the other reason is the games, that although I hardly have time for them, I still like to run around a bit on NFS or something like that from time to time)
So ironically, I am doing this post from Windows 7 right now. (Which by the way, looks like a mess to me compared to XP, but I couldn't play NFS The Run on XP), hehehe.
P.S. I have yet to mount my Linux From Scratch, but with the connections in my country, this is unlikely to happen in the short term.
Greetings Hugo:
I think LFS is a pending task for many hahaha. But as you say, I don't think it's possible in the short term 😀
the story is good, and well yes, sometimes coincidences happen
I met Linux by chance about 5 years ago, I was studying electricity and one of my classmates had taken a course in computer repair and maintenance, he told me that Linux was good for security reasons and he recommended using Mandrake Linux if I wanted to try it, which I never did, about 2 months later I decided to investigate and I came across Ubuntu 08.04, I remember that my first server mounted it with that version, a year later I was already playing to install Arch, then I continued playing probe mandriva, fedora, opensuse, debian, linuxmint, the thousand flavors of ubuntu, slitaz, slax, freeBSD, DSL, minix, archhurd, and my favorites so far and the ones I use recently, Sabayon and Gentoo, the latter installed on a machine that does not boot windows, a Samsung Chromebook Series 5 from which I write, perfect for programming, which is what I do, my story may not have as many rides as yours, but we have more or less the same time
Greetings Colleague
But it's your story, just as interesting .. 😉 We read.
I do not believe that elav is only 5 years old in front of the penguins hehe
Actually, my meeting with Tux was in my 2nd year of university (and I have already graduated for 2 years) at that time they opened a project on network administration and as I have always been one of those who like to know how things work ... I got in fresh, because they put a PC and a Red CD that said "Debian" in front of me and they told me "at the latest the day after tomorrow you have to have that installed on this pc." Luckily the GNU / Linux community is quite united and based on Googling and following some guides I managed to configure my Debian, then I experimented with several distros but hey ... each crazy with his theme ...
We were diagnosed with the same symptom of madness xD xD
I started 1 and a half years ago with ubuntu and unity. It had Windows 7 and an HP printer. In windows I had to download the drivers and install them, more help, extras and advertising from Hp. Plug in the printer and it sets up on its own in 10 seconds. I didn't know it was because of cups and hplip. I got the bug and tried kubuntu, kde, it's incredible. I kept trying mint, debian, opensuse and fedora. They are all very good, but I love Debian + Mate for me.
Another detail that I loved about Linux, not having to be looking for Drivers to have audio, video ... etc. 😀
We are already 2 here we have an HP scanjet 3670 scanner (a real headache in terms of drivers) however ... how rich it is scanned with the Xsane or the SimpleScan xD
Thanks for sharing your story, I never thought you were a windows xp user. I always believed that people like you were born with pre-installed Linux knowledge, I see that I still have a lot to learn. Cheers
Hahaha, not at all. In fact, my first contact with a computer was a Russian television connected to a smart keyboard, and you saved your files in audiotape 😀
I always believed that people like you were born with Linux knowledge pre-installed
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good story, it almost brought me a tear. haha a hug from Argentina.
Thanks Fernando 😀
Elav: I've been around for 3 years, starting with GNOME 2.X then I was experimenting with other environments and window managers such as XFCE, Enlightenment and Fluxbox, then I tried KDE I liked it at first, but I liked it more, again, GNOME in its version 3.X with GNOME-Shell and is the one that I use now GNOME 3.4 with GNOME-Shell.
Greetings.
Hence the phrase that for Tastes: Colors .. 😀
and the one that says "each madman with his theme" 😀
What suited me the most was:
"If in 2 months you learn to work with Linux, I will raise you to the position of Network and Systems Administrator"
I imagine elav with dark circles, stumbling between manuals, tutorials, shells, installing and reinstalling and cursing more than once 🙂
Hahaha, no, it looked more like a laboratory mouse, because since I didn't have (nor do I have) a computer at home, I had to take advantage of as much time as possible at work 😀
I remember in my sabbatical year due to study problems, I only had Ubuntu installed on all my computers, then I switched to Debian and I loved it because it made it much easier for me to know what packages I had installed, I had some problems and I also wanted to share it to the world by middle of a blog, so I also had vivelinux, vivedebian but although it was hard for me to find the name of the blog because SOMEONE already had DEBIANLIFE registered in wordpress ... my blogs no longer exist because although it seems easy to manage a blog it is a very complicated task.
Oops, how bad that one who took you debianlife, So bad…. Let's give him a couple of hosts xD xD
And you too for having copied the "debianlife" from my "kde4life" HAHAHA.
I remind you that the first to have that of life, was UbuntuLife, then I with LinuxMintLife, then DebianLife and you arrived as an imitator with your kde4life .. muajajajajajaa
I've only been on Linux for two years and at home.
A few years ago I started with Mandrake and spent a whole weekend, book in hand, to get connected to the internet with a modem.
It was an odyssey and suffering to do anything and in the end I left it due to lack of time and to have a more relaxed life; with the promise of returning to free software the day that was most affordable for a home user.
And nothing, I kept my promise.
In fact Mandrake was the first distribution I saw with my eyes, but at that time I don't remember why, I didn't stop to see how it worked or what it was.
very good story elav !! I like it when you say that you are grateful to your teacher who told you to fix yourself next time, one at a time like this thinks how bad this person is (something like this happened to all of us in various aspects of life) and what really wants that person is for one to learn to solve by himself the different problems that we have in life.
I started 6 months ago on Linux and I have already learned more in these months than in all the years that I use Windows. in my case I don't have any family member or friend who uses linux, so one learns alone, searching the internet, asking questions in forums and blogs, and sometimes even spoiling a complete system haha.
a hug!!
Exactly, that is what I feel. I have learned with Linux what I am not going to learn with Windows, even using it all my life.
Great story elav !! The truth inspires me to continue to know more about my GNU environment. I have been a GNU / Linux user for 3 years (I think, maybe a little longer), and my goal is to explore BSD, Indiana and one day see GNU / Hurd finished. I live in Mexico and I follow this blog because of its interesting content. My first approach was by a teacher who gave me a live Ubuntu Karmic CD for exempting his subject, and it was a phenomenal gift. I will only say one thing about Windows, when I changed to Linux there was a record of more than a million viruses for Windows against 500 and something for Os de Mac, a little less for Linux, and less than 500 for Solaris and BSD, according to what I read back then. And I was very tired of dealing with viruses, I tried freezers and more, but hey, the truth is that "THERE IS NO 100% SECURE COMPUTER SYSTEM", and that the vast majority of security breaches are caused by the user himself. From there, well, I really liked Karmic Koala (not so its colors), then I read and wanted to try Debian «Great fail», I couldn't get it ready at that time and go back to Ubuntu, I tried Linux Mint, which I liked a lot , OpenSUSE that I see is great, but for some reason I was slow with my Laptop, JoliCloud, which I also liked a lot, Fedora (to which ... I could make a thousand excuses, the question is that I still can't find the trick), Arch , which seems great to me, but I could not make it as fine as I wanted and Debian again ... and now, since we have the problem of GNOME 3, Unity, Cinnamon, Mate, and others, I have tried some more environments and others right-handed and just now I stay with Mageia with Gnome 3, which comes lightly to my computer.
I read the discussion with "Morgoth" and well, I will just say that according to what I have read, BSD servers are more secure, but one of the points that these have, along with GNU / Linux, Indiana and others, is precisely their little diffusion and that they are not a profitable source for attacks, because a file for Windows is practically the same for win98, WinMe, Xp, Vista, Win7 and others, while for the others, due to their different right-handed structure, different environments and configurations, they are a harder target; but it must be seen that in recent days according to some sources, attacks on Android terminals (which occupies the Linux kernel) have tripled, of course coupled with the fact that users install apps without knowing their source and vulnerabilities in the Google Store. "I believe" that the war on security for BSD, Linux, Indiana and others is yet to come and see how terminals such as Android will face (which I understand is not 100% free), but that it spreads the existence of alternative systems to Windows, which exponentially increase their quota face security problems.
I do not argue or say that Linux or Windows is better, since in the field of usability for the end user Windows is ahead, perhaps because of the time they have and because of custom; and even more so when we see that the people of Gnome insist on creating an environment that is not what it used to be, little configurability and imposing what they want and that without being bad, it simply does not finish convincing users. But I think that the job of GNU / Linux is to be easier to use every day and that the day comes it can be said that one could use Linux completely without opening a terminal, because here I advocate what they ask themselves «Why do I have to know what is a kernel and a terminal? If the only thing I want is to chat, check my Face, my e-mail, listen to music, write documents from time to time and play (Strong point that is working a lot) ». Well, from "Winbugs" not to mention, because we know that such vaunted usability is overshadowed, compromised and even shattered in the face of the enormous problem of this is its security and its lack of tools to contain security threats, Which, an entire industry (antivirus) has been created and that sometimes the solutions cause more problems than the "viruses" themselves.
I will continue this note and I hope to know more about all the opinions of this community that shares so much. Greetings to everyone here
Well, your story is great too ^^. It is true that BSD is more secure than GNU / Linux, but it is also true that it depends on the user behind the system 😀
Greetings .. excellent biography that you have put ... the truth linux is learned very easily that way as you have counted it .. in my case I have been using linux for 14 years .. already by that year of 1998, I was looking for other alternatives to windows that I was bored hehe .. my start started trying a distro that had released corel .. the "core-linux" disappearance based on devian, then I provided several others until I met the old mandrake, then mandriva .. until today that I use MAGEIA that works for me super well .. although I am always trying one or another distro that catches my attention, I also learned to use and repair linux .. reading information on forums, linux web pages and in a large collection of magazines about linux that I own 🙂 ..
14 years? Wow, awesome, you must be a GURÚ 🙂
hehe not so much a «guru» 🙂 but if a user is somewhat advanced in gnu / linux, it is very easy for me to point it out.
hi LovellTux, hey! a bit off-topic, just starting in Mageia, I come from Debian derivatives. Do you recommend some forums about Mageia? how to set it up? how much is fedora compatible? and secure and additional repos to the official and the Dragblock? I see that you know the subject and even Mandrake. Thanks and sorry for the query
Greetings khourt, on mageia forums the most interesting and with good help material are these «http://blogdrake.net/foros». the point of the repos, the mageia officials are other insurance desir .. and also those that you get in "http://ftp.blogdrake.net/RPMS/GetRepoDrake/", you can also count on these »http: / /mirror.yandex.ru/mageia/distrib/2/ »which are good and safe, I use them all, and they have never given me problems,
Thanks Lovelltux !!
Right now I check the repos of «http://mirror.yandex.ru», as those of BlogDrak told you and the forum already had it, but I was looking for something a little more than just Mageia, because it happens to me often that the info in Drake is very good, but no longer applies to Mageia.
Well, I'll keep checking ... Thank you !!
Uff… the last five lines of the post are pure poetry… the truth is excellent.
My first encounter with GNU / Linux was at the end of 2008 in a store where I was about to buy a camera, I looked at a technology magazine which had a Gentoo Linux installation CD… I took the magazine and forgot about what I had gone to do at the store… I read the information contained in the magazine and with my eyes closed I performed the installation…. From that moment on there were several distributions that went through my machine from Suse, Madrake, Debian, OpenSuse to my beloved Arch Linux.
I confess that I stay in dual boot (of which I am not ashamed), but instead of Windows I share my Arch with OSX ... which for many will be a scandal but for me it was a challenge to overcome ... (install a Hackintosh) .
Thanks for sharing your experience… Excellent Post.
Thanks to you for stopping by and commenting ... by the way, I love your avatar jojojo ..
Good story \ o / I have been 10 months and 4 of which as a single OS, I like how portable GNU / Linux is, I have several router with tomato and DD-WRT, 2 NSLU2 with debian, Nokia N9 mobile with meego. I also love electronics and I spend time with friends creating things, now I am studying on my own how I can mix home automation, automation and Gnu / Linux, hoping for a soon change in the direction of the country ^ __ ^ Venezuela and create with friends a An entrepreneurial automation company, which with the current regime we have not been able to do so, due to the large number of alcabalas, obstacles and also many foreigners who, thanks to the current government, took over the country.
I know what it feels like, I'm from Zulia, and I also like how portable it is, electronics also attract my attention but I see it from my world (computer science), and domotics also caught my attention, a few years ago years I made a server that turned off and on certain lights in my house remotely, then I ran out of internet and dismantled the system because I had no use (when something does not work I simply disarm it), only that with the passage of time I orient myself more through the programming, right now I'm with a friend who registered a software development and server maintenance company with GNU / Linux, greetings, follow that path that Linux, as it goes, is the future of computing (the future is open).
regards
My first contact with Linux dates back to 2004, when I was studying Information Systems Administration here in Spain. Back then the first distros I played were Guadalinex 2004 (the distribution of the Junta de Andalucía) and Red Hat 7.1. I still remember those times when Red Hat was free and used an antediluvian KDE as a desktop environment xD
At that time my Linux experience was limited to my studies, because at home I was still a prisoner of Windows XP, I knew absolutely nothing of the principles of free software and was particularly skeptical about how Linux could work on a home machine. The following year, as a result of a conference at the Free Software Conference of the University of Cádiz, I began to enlighten myself about the principles of free software, which helped them coincide in a certain way with my socialist ideology. From then on, although still on Windows XP, the use of free software began to prevail, such as Firefox as a browser or Audacity as an audio editor.
During that second year in Systems Administration, I had my first contact with Ubuntu (then 5.10) and Guadalinex v3. But I still did not consider it as a possible domestic system.
It was from March 2007, with the launch of Windows Vista, with its great defects hidden behind beautiful marketing campaigns together with its very high price, that made me decide to look for a substitute for guarantees for the old XP. And that's how I set out to find and capture the ideal Linux distribution for me. I spent several months downloading and testing distributions, when I realized that the environment I liked the most was KDE (which at that time was on version 3.5.x), so the final test was reduced to OpenSUSE 10.3, Mandriva 2008 and Kubuntu 7.10. Kubuntu was soon removed but things were quite close between OpenSUSE and Mandriva. In the end, in an act more reflex than decisive, I opted for OpenSUSE. It was October 2007. OpenSUSE lasted me a month, during which time I admit that I hardly used it, mainly due to some problem in the installation or in the partitioning that made the machine start directly into Windows.
The following month, I bought an issue of Todo Linux magazine that happened to bring the original Mandriva 2008 DVD as a gift. At that time I decided to try an installation again, but this time, using that Mandriva 2008 DVD. And so it was. how Mandriva became my first real home use distribution. From here I gradually abandoned Windows, reducing its use to games or work with very specific programs (such as AutoCAD), and I fell more and more in love with Mandriva. So much so that it was my only and indisputable distribution until April 2010, at which point I decided, coinciding with the release of Ubuntu 10.04, to install it on my laptop, where with the latest version of Mandriva I had had problems getting the one to work. Wifi. Ubuntu solved the ballot and I was surprised by how much it had changed (for the better) since that version 5.10. It didn't take any trouble for me to adapt to GNOME, so I comfortably used Ubuntu until November, when I decided to switch again to try Linux Mint 10.
The problem with my laptop's Wi-Fi was something that I blamed on the KDE network manager, since Mandriva and some other KDE-based that I had tried were not able to connect to my Wi-Fi network, which I did without difficulties with GNOME , and that was the reason that during 2010 and part of 2011 I only considered pro-GNOME distributions for my laptop. Until ... in a personal challenge, doing my first Arch Linux installation on a real machine, which I decided to put KDE on, I managed to connect to my wifi network from KDE. It was then that I knew that KDE was not the problem, but my clumsiness by incorrectly entering the type of network wifi security.
So, in March 2011, I installed OpenSUSE 11.4, which since then, and due to the internal problems that Mandriva was going through, began to become my new favorite.
I happily used OpenSUSE until July, when I ended up breaking it xD and took the opportunity to do a new installation, this time with Sabayon 6.0, which left a great taste in my mouth and lasted until in September I gave a chance to the new Mandriva 2011.
Meanwhile, on my desktop I stuck with Mandriva 2010.2 until mid-2011 I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition first, then PCLinuxOS, and then Chakra.
I was using Mandriva 2011 until December. And while I was glad to be back, there was internal turbulence in the distro and I found glitches where there were none before, so before the end of the year I went back to OpenSUSE, which has been ruling my laptop until just a few weeks ago. Now I am giving a little taste of the new Kubuntu 12.04, which I had read very good references, before returning to OpenSUSE next month with the new version.
On my desktop, I currently use OpenSUSE 12.1, which after the experience with Chakra became its owner and lord.
Ah, I forgot. Despite all this trotting through so many distributions, I always kept my computers with dual-boot, before with Windows Vista, now with Windows 7, although the use I give it is exclusively for games in a very sporadic way, which is why its place on hard drives has been decreasing more and more over time in favor of Linux.
Uff, long story for yours huh? Great!!
I can't tell a story in 3 paragraphs, sorry xD
and I wonder ... is there a command or something to know the date of installation of the system?
https://blog.desdelinux.net/como-saber-cuando-instalamos-nuestro-linux/
interesting, thanks
nonamed: you have the answer in this blog https://blog.desdelinux.net/como-saber-cuando-instalamos-nuestro-linux/ 😉
Very good post, for those of us who are in love with GNU / Linux and free software, our first approach to the system is like a second childhood, so when we remember it, we feel a tear. In my case, I started with ubuntu about 6 or 7 years ago until that machine died and I had to search for them with a K6-2 in which I tested puppy, DSL, and some more, from that moment I do not touch the windows or give me a beat . Greetings to you and Cuba.
interesting, thanks
: )
Let's see if it doesn't duplicate, because I saw my comment posted and it was suddenly deleted.
After so long without internet I finally have it again.
I saw some comments about excel macros that are not compatible in calc, because for that there is a forum called free universe where you can download a book about macros in openoffice, for that matter it works in libreoffice.
http://www.universolibre.org/node/1
If from Cuba you do not have access to the page and you are interested in the book, send me an email and I will send it to you.
regards
Speaking of office, does anyone else know about this?
http://www.google.com.mx/#hl=es-419&gs_nf=1&cp=43&gs_id=4u&xhr=t&q=microsoft+office+2013+soportara+formato+odf&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=microsoft+office+2013+soportara+formato+odf&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=7e93861046ad2e67&biw=1366&bih=662
Well, it doesn't seem strange to me that Office 2013 supports ODF when Office 2010 already had some support for this format. The funny thing is that MS had assured that it would not support ODF because OOXML already existed (of course, Microsoft's own format), but since few showed interest in this format and instead many regions and governments began to migrate to OpenOffice / LibreOffice and left to buy MS Office because it did not support ODF, it seems that in the end they had to reconsider.
But will they be gross? If what they have to do is, that their products are compatible with the rest of the standards so that people continue to use them. If I were the CEO of Microsoft, today they would be above Apple. U_U
xD
Ready up, let's do a little campaign so that elav I became CEO of Microsoft JAJAJAJA
A great story undoubtedly elav, it is curious as in the vast majority of stories despite its great variety there is always a common note, that need not to let ourselves be defeated, to get things done, to find solutions and improve on our own . I guess at the end of the day that's the kind of GNU / Linux user.
Undoubtedly a great reflection partner I am new to this blog but I came to stay