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Hi, my name is Mike Hingley, and I thought I'd record a quick show for Hacker
Public Radio. I was at our camp 11 over the weekend, just gone, 13 for 14 for
August, and I was introduced to the joys of Hacker Public Radio from the
displaced and there. So I thought I'd crack at my microphone, my rubbish
you little pros and USB microphone, and record a little something for Hacker
Public Radio, and I'm just going to record a little piece of how I got
into Linux. It might be interesting for people, it might not, I don't know. It
may serve as a lesson for us all, but I first tried to get into Linux years
ago with a red hat disc. We're talking before fedora core here, we're talking
years ago, and it was a PC format disc or something like this, and it had a
fedora or red hat disc on the front. I remember vividly loading this disc,
I think it has to be brilliant. I've heard all about this Linux stuff, it's
going to be ice. I've got a PC that I'd set aside, especially for it, I managed
to clean up and build a Franken PC, you know, a couple of bits together, I
have other PCs and I thought this would do, and I installed it and I got a black
screen with a cursor, and I spent the next three hours trying to figure out how
to add a user so I could log in to it and how to actually use the system I'd
set up, and at the end I became this in franchise with it, I turned it off
went back to Windows and stayed on Windows for a few years, and it wasn't until
about 2007, something like that, that I was introduced to Linux by other than
colleague Tim Brown, he was a big Ubuntu user, and said you need to try to
Ubuntu desktop, it's really cool, you've tried Linux before, but this is
ice, and he was not wrong, I've been using Ubuntu ever since, so I've been
using Ubuntu since 606, so I've been using it for a while now, and it's
just great, I'm recording this on a little ice-respire one netbook running, well
it's Ubuntu 11.04, my main desktop, Ubuntu Office is running Ubuntu 10.04,
and my laptop, I say my laptop, the wife and mine's laptop, we share a
cost of the other laptop, it's 50% Windows, but when I boot it, it boots
Linux, and boot to 11.04, so that's how I got into Linux anyway, so hopefully
I'm going to be submitting a few more shows, I've got an idea for a show that
I'm going to pitch through to the hacker and geek community, and see if I
can sort of harness the power of the geek crowd, but yeah, it's so cool, thanks
for watching, thank you for listening to hacker public radio, for more information on
the show, and how to contribute to your own shows, visit hackerpublicradio.org.
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