[LBo] A (shortish) introduction

[Isolde Ryan]

Greetings!

I, too, am one of the new (late?) influx of subscribers to this course having spied the DesktopLinux.com article (albeit indirectly via LinuxToday.com).

I've been using Linux at home since 1999, when knowing little more than how to insert a CD into my first wholely-owned computer, I installed Red Hat 6.1 (over one very long weekend). I've been with Red Hat ever since until four weeks ago when I installed Kubuntu 6.1 onto a new hard drive. I'm still getting used to the new system but am loving the <apt-get install> command. No more dependency nightmares!

Even though I've been using Linux for so long, I consider myself pretty clueless, which is why I have signed up for the class. I have some very big gaps in my knowledge. I'm what the purists argue don't exist -- a simple Linux desktop user -- without any system administration background in sight (unless word processing on an Apple 2E counts).

I loved Red Hat, but they have lost the desktop focus for commercial reasons (and good luck to them), hence why I've switched from Fedora to Kubuntu. LinuxToday is my all time favourite Web site -- I'm a sucker for Linux-IT gossip. I live in Australia and I look forward to getting stuck into the classes over the summer break -- in between watching us beat the Poms at cricket of course (this last comment will probably be lost on most of you, except to any Brits!)

Cheers
Isolde

Ps I'd be interested in hearing how K/Ubuntu limits your command-line capabilities .. there seems to be workarounds for most things (eg such as reactivating the root account!) :-)

Pps I'm one of the 1.4 percent accessing the LinuxBasics site by an Apple Mac (work machine). I have been doing the exercises in the MacOSX terminal shell... an interesting experiment!

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