Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . . -- Regards, Mark Mwangi http://mwangy.wordpress.com
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
Mark, suggest you must learn linux as it has many surprises too, especially if one is used to plug n play world. There are many articles on the net about learning linux.... You may also consider FreeBSD, it has a complete book and full instruction. Check out their site. I learnt much from Freebsd and still sometimes use it as a useful tool, along with windows too. Not all OS's have all the features that one maybe looking for. HTH's . :-)
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
Hi Mark, Ubuntu will do you just fine if you need a smooth transition from Windows to *nix without having to engage in black magic and voodoo incantations. If you dont mind, you could try sabayon 4, knoppix 6, or Vector Linux for more adventure. With these, you could pick up this book http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz and learn spell-binding commands and invocations! btw the book, rute, applies to any *nix system and you will find it extremely helpful now and even much later when you are become the geekest of us all. try it. another one to try would be linuxfromscratch.org, you build your system from .. well .. nothing, scratch. as daunting as the task may sound, you are not literally plunging into the unknown; there's a very detailed accompanying guide book that will help you in the setup. here, you concoct your own magic spells and devise rituals. you are now your own druid! Good luck, and welcome .. :) -- Ndungi Kyalo
Thanks guys . . Wil try all that you have asked . . Here goes everything! . On 8/24/09, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
Hi Mark,
Ubuntu will do you just fine if you need a smooth transition from Windows to *nix without having to engage in black magic and voodoo incantations. If you dont mind, you could try sabayon 4, knoppix 6, or Vector Linux for more adventure. With these, you could pick up this book http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz and learn spell-binding commands and invocations! btw the book, rute, applies to any *nix system and you will find it extremely helpful now and even much later when you are become the geekest of us all. try it.
another one to try would be linuxfromscratch.org, you build your system from .. well .. nothing, scratch. as daunting as the task may sound, you are not literally plunging into the unknown; there's a very detailed accompanying guide book that will help you in the setup. here, you concoct your own magic spells and devise rituals. you are now your own druid!
Good luck, and welcome .. :)
-- Ndungi Kyalo
-- Regards, Mark Mwangi http://mwangy.wordpress.com
mwangi, migration depends on many factors; consider this, mimi ni maasai. why would i migrate from Narok to Nairobi? 1. make a list of tools or applications you use on windows that you would like to keep using. 2. find out if Linux (or any other OS can replicate the functions) 3. install *nix on a separate partition on your disk; or if you have enough RAM install http://vmware.com and run linux as a virtual machine. 4. migrate completely when you are completely sure you can continue to be productive on the new platform. On 8/23/09, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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Mwangi, My jump to linux was more dramatic and I never regretted it. My Windoze machine crashed one day in First Year campus. I lost all my data, applications etc. I just loaded RedHat 5 and have never looked back. Sometimes just take the plunge stop worrying about what may or may not work. You're intelligent enough to solve any problem that comes your way. Only Tip is to use Google, Linux How-to-s & Skunkworks. Whatever you're experiencing someone else has.. -----Original Message----- From: ukuta ken <ukutaken@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Taking The Linux Plunge Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:36:07 +0300 mwangi, migration depends on many factors; consider this, mimi ni maasai. why would i migrate from Narok to Nairobi? 1. make a list of tools or applications you use on windows that you would like to keep using. 2. find out if Linux (or any other OS can replicate the functions) 3. install *nix on a separate partition on your disk; or if you have enough RAM install http://vmware.com and run linux as a virtual machine. 4. migrate completely when you are completely sure you can continue to be productive on the new platform. On 8/23/09, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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Hi, Have a look at this: http://www.howtoforge.org/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.04 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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-- Regards, Brian Ngure
It only costs money to maintain and retain if you pirate! BTW did you have a legal copy? On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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-- "Change is slow and gradual. It requires hardwork, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience." Roy.
Wow. The unflattering assumptions inherent in your post. <sarcasm> Good job Roy. </sarcasm> It would suck to be your customer. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Paul Roy <roykoikai@gmail.com> wrote:
It only costs money to maintain and retain if you pirate! BTW did you have a legal copy?
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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-- "Change is slow and gradual. It requires hardwork, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience."
Roy.
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Had legit Windows Vista Ultimate sp1 . . Still do. . . . Its expensive coz u need to buy an antivirus and windows updates are heavy downloads thus internet bill is high . . On 8/24/09, Paul Roy <roykoikai@gmail.com> wrote:
It only costs money to maintain and retain if you pirate! BTW did you have a legal copy?
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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-- "Change is slow and gradual. It requires hardwork, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience."
Roy.
-- Regards, Mark Mwangi http://mwangy.wordpress.com
and you need to go online or call to activate. cant they trust that you bought it. irony is that pirated copies have no hassle activating. On 24/08/2009, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Had legit Windows Vista Ultimate sp1 . . Still do. . . . Its expensive coz u need to buy an antivirus and windows updates are heavy downloads thus internet bill is high . .
On 8/24/09, Paul Roy <roykoikai@gmail.com> wrote:
It only costs money to maintain and retain if you pirate! BTW did you have a legal copy?
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
Ave finally decided to take the plunge once and for all and dump windows for Linux. . . Ubuntu to be precise. . . .Windows costs money to obtain,maintain and retain. . . . .its become abit too much. . . . . .any advice out there to help me sail these new waters?. .. am sort of a total newbie. . .
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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-- "Change is slow and gradual. It requires hardwork, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience."
Roy.
-- Regards,
Mark Mwangi
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