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Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve written. So i’ll just do a random write….

I have been using Linux since the end of 6th grade. That would make me a 6 year Linux veteran. I may seem old by the way I talk about it, but it’s only been 5 1/2 years at most. The desktop linux community has seen many changes in those 5 1/2 years. From a time when the desktop gui was kinda buggy, some how I managed to stay on track using various distributions and learning about linux.

I admit that I am a GNOME fan, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been following the achievements of the KDE desktop. Both of which, when I started, were primitive and had little usabliltiy as an everyday platform. However, that has changed, and it is easier than ever to use a Linux machine without having to really know it’s linux. The environment is very competative with that of a PC or even a Mac.

Now, I have an operational server running Linux, a hardware firewall that I built running Linux, and my laptop (my main machine) running Linux. I am so comfortable with it, that I actually have to relearn Windows when i sit at a school computer or a client’s computer. I’ve almost become one with the system as I drop to the command-line when I can’t figure something out, or if I just need to do that one thing that will give me total control (or at least the feeling of it).

I’ve become a more patient computer user, as I am still waiting for better wireless drivers to roll out… by then I’ll probably be writing them… oh well.. but that’s the beauty of it. I know that something will be done about a problem and that the Linux community is responding to the needs of its users. Truly amazing!

That’s enough ramblin for me,
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Peace. KW