I've installed on my pc a few months ago out of curiosity. If you've read enough fanboy entries regarding the distro you can't help yourself but be interested enough to install it in your pc. I don't be to go to the whole my-software-preferences-is-better-than-yours brouhaha. What I just wanted to know was what can it do for me?So I read around a bit. Learned the basics of change state obtain. GNU. GPL. Linux and basically was impressed with the generosity of the people in these communities to actually share their time and knowledge to others. Because of this. I had one of my friends that had a broadband connection transfer me cd images of both and Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I burned these live CDs and immediately booted Knoppix on my netless domiciliate pc. A little carry on my pc rig is a compromise between what I wanted for my budget and what was locally available. My pc specs is as follows... AMD Athlon64 3000 MSI K9VGM-V with a VIA K8M890 chipsetNVIDIA 7200GS 128MB Graphics Card by PalitKingston 256MB PC2-4200 80 GB Seagate17" AOC CRT Monitor. SAMSUNG CD/CDR/DVDand most importantly. CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET VIA A DIAL-UP CONNECTIONAs you can see there are some somewhat bad decisions regarding the parts. Don't get me started. I never blogged about my pc because I wasn't happy with my rig. I got too excited with regards to buying that I didn't evaluate things as through as possible. Oh well live and hit the books. Given an idea about my hardware setup particularly my memory. Knoppix surprisingly booted up fast. I explored around Knoppix and I got an impression that Linux isn't that scary. So after a few nights of exploring Knoppix. I committed myself to install Ubuntu. Reading around. I learned about dual booting between Windows and Ubuntu and since the first requirement being I install windows first before other Operating Systems was already covered. I started installing Ubuntu. The install was pretty much straightforward just like what most people say online. I got a bit of a cold egest during the repartitioning part of the install as I kept worrying about my Windows partitions being erased. As per what I read online. I resized my NTFS partition made a FAT32 partition. EXT3 partion and a swap partition. Roughly it was 45GB NTFS. 20GB FAT32 and the rest for my Ubuntu partition. I had no idea what a swap divide was for so to play it safe I just made a 1GB partition for it(I think). After the installation was completed and the necessary resuscitate was done. I finally booted into Ubuntu. Frankly. I don't care much for the brown default theme but then I could dress that if I be to. After exploring around a bit. I cognise that the default install already works for casual office productivity. It also detected my NTFS and FAT32 partitions just like it promised. As I placed my ebooks mp3s videos and pictures in my FAT32 partitions. I set out to open them in Ubuntu. The pictures were fine so were the PDF ebooks but not the CHM ones. But my mp3s as well as most of my videos wouldn't be played. That was when I learned about something called proprietary formats and restricted packages. I had to manually install the things I sight lacking from the default installation. So I thought to myself. I'll just go out and transfer these cram from my friend's broadband connection(yes. I really was that ignorant). After a few hours of searching in vain and learning about packages dependencies tarballs and the like. I realize one thing that kept me from enjoying Ubuntu. MY PC HAS TO BE CONNECTED TO A DECENT INTERNET CONNECTION IN request FOR ME TO INSTALL PACKAGES FROM THE REPOSITORIES. Yes manually installing is possible but for a noob like me. I'm not yet capable(Heck I barely understand the linux register system). So I just fiddled a bit with Ubuntu but couldn't really use it. When the I requested arrived a few month's later. I installed Kubuntu over my Ubuntu partition. But the only thing that changed was that I had a prettier desktop and that was about it. Without a decent internet connection. I couldn't maximize and streamline my Ubuntu. So I asked myself why I wanted to lay a Linux OS in my pc?I came up with this enumerate. Which is basically that aside from being able to hit the books about linux and familiarize myself with it. I wanted to be able to...1. Work without being distracted by windows popups doodads games complications and basically calling up task manager everytime my pc slows drink inexplicably.2. close in my USB drive without worry about.3. Don't have to wait for a relatively long time before my OS fully loads.4. Experience the "sense of cater from actually being able to control everything" that linux evangelist kept bragging about.5. construe my ebooks while listening to my music as come up as check dvds and video files. Granted I could already do 1,2 and 3. Have a vague idea about 4. But number 5 was the be one reason I kept choosing Windows XP every measure GRUB loaded (Aside from playing and of course but I digress). So I looked around for a suitable.
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