[LBo] Re: Introduction

[Jan]

Jan wrote:

> Greetings from The Netherlands!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Jan and today I signed in for the new course starting 11/19. I
> am 55 years old and I am an Economist. I started with computers in 1969 at
> the University of Rotterdam (Erasmus University). I have been working with
> computers since then and it also became a hobby in the early eighties. I
> have seen and used them all, starting with Commodore and MSX all the way
> up to my present 3.4 GHz P4. At the moment I run a homenetwork of 3 PC's
> and all of them are used for work and hobby on a daily basis. The network
> is connected to the internet via an internet security router. The
> connection is a 20 Mbit down/2 Mbit up cable connection. Since 2004 I
> build the PC's myself, because I think that's the only way to get a PC
> just the way you want it to be.
> 
> As most people I have mainly been using Microsoft products. At the moment
> my PC's are all multiboot and I am still using Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win 98,
> mostly for compatibility reasons, although the oldest Operating Systems
> like Win 95 and 3.1 are of course not connected to the internet for safety
> reasons. On my main system I use a dual boot with Win XP Prof. and Suse
> 10.1 (OSS). Several years ago I started with Linux, but there were too
> much problems back then like unsupported hardware and I quit using it
> after a few months. About 4 months ago I decided to give it another try
> and I downloaded Suse. At first I experimented for a couple of weeks with
> an install on an external USB harddrive. All went well and I decided to
> repartition a second internal HD to install Suse. I must say that I was
> impressed and now I am using Suse (mostly with KDE DE) almost every day.
> The last few months I learned a lot about Linux, but of course I am still
> a newbee as far as Linux is concerned. Being a Windows expert and
> commandline user from the good old Dos era, I managed to configure Suse
> 10.1 to a complete system with 3D support and all the multimedia stuff
> like DVD and Mp3 by just searching the internet for all the relevant
> information. Where would we be without the internet?
> 
> I read about the course in a newsletter and I hope to learn a lot and to
> be able to help others.
> 
> Best regards, Jan
> 
Sorry, but 11/19 must be of course 10/19.