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Re: Why do you use Ubuntu?/Introduction

 

Hi and welcome to the LoCo fellow Cincinnatian. I'm Svetlana, the most active leader out the three we have. I'm just a lab tech that has FOSS/Linux/Open * as hobbies.  I mostly advocate it through writing about it and volunteering at Grailville for Open Science.

On Fri, May 25, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Elias Ward wrote:
> New member here of the LoCo.
> 
> I thought I might introduce myself by answering this latest question
> in the mailing list.
> 
> I got started with Linux back in the 90's using a clone of Red Hat
> that I found in a Wal-Mart for $5. Booted up to a console. Played
> around and got startx going and started into twm. Neat. A GUI full of
> term windows. Fell in love. Rewrote a driver I found online to get my
> Winmodem to work and I was hooked on FOSS and Linux.
> 
> Learned about Ubuntu in 2005 and played around with it and liked it.
> Used it as my primary OS for about 3 or 4 years (was using Debian and
> Fedora Core before that). I remember there being some issues and so
> started jumping between Fedora and Ubuntu before the great distro hop
> years.
> 
> Now, while I dabble around in other distros, I pretty much use
> Kubuntu. I like KDE and it was either Kubuntu or openSUSE and while I
> like openSUSE, I don't have as much time to "force" things to work so
> I use what most people write for which I admit pains me a little
> because I have a special place in my heart for small distros.
> 
> Part of that is because I served on the Fuduntu Linux team for a while
> before the upstream changes were too much for us to handle while still
> giving users what they wanted and so it took its toll and came to an
> end.
> 
> I worked with the openSUSE team for a short time before taking a few
> year hiatus from any contributing. in 2007, helped to form up the
> Nevada LoCo and worked with sum LUG's. Now, I'm trying to jump back
> into the middle of the Linux and FOSS world.
> 
> Something that has disappointed me is the decline of LoCo's and LUG's
> and I want to find a way to bring that back as well as advocate for
> smaller distros.
> 
> By day, I am a Systems/Network Administrator. Pains me to say it, but
> it's a 99% Windows network though I plan on changing that some. My
> laptop at work runs Linux because most of my day is RDP'd into servers
> (or via PowerShell) or in various browser-based clients so why not?
> 
> I live down by Cincy and have a wife and two small children. FOSS and
> Linux advocate (but practical...sometimes FOSS and Linux don't have
> the best solution). I saw a post from a couple years ago about
> reviving this LoCo. Is that still something of interest to others?
> 
> Nice to virtually meet you all and hope that maybe this thread that
> was started will spark some renewed interest. Linux and FOSS were
> built on community. It's time to bring that back.
> 
> Elias
> 
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Svetlana Belkin
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