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- | This year (2020), it’s 20 years ago that I first discovered Linux, picking up RedHat 5.1 (a number of CDs and a manual) for a small sum at a computer meeting. Installing it on the hard disk was very difficult, as the 540 MB HD was so encoded as to enable me to run my copy of Windows, which was not able to recognize a disk larger than 504 MB, if I remember this well. But after a few tries (it was as if the install program learned from the failures, and every next step the install went better, until: bingo:), I had Linux installed on my computer. | + | **This year (2020), it’s 20 years ago that I first discovered Linux, picking up RedHat 5.1 (a number of CDs and a manual) for a small sum at a computer meeting. Installing it on the hard disk was very difficult, as the 540 MB HD was so encoded as to enable me to run my copy of Windows, which was not able to recognize a disk larger than 504 MB, if I remember this well. But after a few tries (it was as if the install program learned from the failures, and every next step the install went better, until: bingo:), I had Linux installed on my computer. |
- | When I learned more, I discovered, and was very much surprised AND impressed, that the large HD was no problem at all for Linux. It was only a problem for my Windows (3.11, the computer was a Pentium 4 of 1992) at the time (so I still had to use the encoding program, that jiggled the disk parameters such that Windows was made to believe the disk was a much smaller one). | + | When I learned more, I discovered, and was very much surprised AND impressed, that the large HD was no problem at all for Linux. It was only a problem for my Windows (3.11, the computer was a Pentium 4 of 1992) at the time (so I still had to use the encoding program, that jiggled the disk parameters such that Windows was made to believe the disk was a much smaller one).** |
- | What made me really enthusiastic was the load of free software that came with RedHat, | + | J’ai découvert Linux il y a 20 ans quand j’ai récupéré |
- | So I played, and made many mistakes, and learned and learned. Problems with the printer, the videocard, sound and what not. But also: the computer itself just worked, and in Windows | + | Quand j’en ai appris davantage, surpris ET favorablement impressionné, j’ai découvert que le grand disque dur ne posait aucun problème pour Linux. Ce n’était un problème que pour Windows 3.11 (l’ordinateur était un Pentium 4 de 1992) à l’époque et je devais encore utiliser le programme d’encodage qui bricolait les paramètres du disque d’une façon telle que Windows |
- | (I had to use first DOS, and later Windows, for my work (teaching). Never did I use these by choice. Before | + | **What made me really enthusiastic was the load of free software |
- | My Windows was always broken “because of my tinkering”. If Linux was broken, | + | So I played, and made many mistakes, and learned and learned. Problems with the printer, the videocard, sound and what not. But also: the computer itself just worked, and in Windows I have never experienced that bliss.** |
- | RedHat offered free updates for a year (from the top of my head, may be confused with later trials of, for instance, Fedora, Suse and Mandrake), but all experiences ran down to the same thing: installing updates was very slow if they numbered more than just a few. So after some time, I tried other distros, among them, and the best and most beautiful of them all, was Mandrake: easy to install, easy to update, very nice to look at. But all of them had this very serious problem, which caused me to download only one, or at most two, CDs (out of the six or sometimes even more than that): after a number of updates it got very difficult to install applications from the CDs, as the change got larger and larger that the necessary installed dependencies were updated to a new version, and so could not be used by the software on the CDs, which needed the original versions: this is the real dependency hell. | + | Ce qui m’a vraiment enthousiasmé était la tonne de logiciels gratuits livrés avec RedHat ; tu le demandais et c’était là, quelque part sur les CD ; tu pouvais donc l’installer et jouer avec. Je n’avais aucune idée de l’objectif de la plupart des logiciels, mais le manuel en contenait un bref descriptif que je comprenais parfois. |
- | Ubuntu | + | Je me suis donc amusé en faisant beaucoup d’erreurs et j’en ai appris de plus en plus. Il y avait des problèmes avec l’imprimante, |
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+ | **(I had to use first DOS, and later Windows, for my work (teaching). Never did I use these by choice. Before that I “tinkered” with my Acorn Atom, and BBC B microcomputers. To even “reprogram” the hardware itself with a soldering iron, which was fun, as a member of a computer club, for the Atom. I even had to abandon the Atom, as it had changed out of recognition, | ||
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+ | My Windows was always broken “because of my tinkering”. If Linux was broken, I just reinstalled it, and played some more with it. Or tried to find out what broke the system, but was not always successful. And had to go the easier way.** | ||
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+ | J’étais obligé, d’abord, d’utiliser DOS et, plus tard, Windows pour mon boulot (l’enseignement). Je ne les ai jamais utilisés par choix. Avant cela je « bricolais » avec mes micro-ordinateurs Acorn Atom et BBC B. En tant que membre d’un club informatique, | ||
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+ | Mon Windows était toujours en panne « à cause de mes bricolages ». Si Linux était cassé, il suffisait de le réinstaller pour pouvoir continuer à jouer avec. Ou j’essayais de découvrir ce qui avait cassé le système, mais puisque je ne réussissait pas toujours, il fallait opter pour le chemin le plus facile. | ||
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+ | **RedHat offered free updates for a year (from the top of my head, may be confused with later trials of, for instance, Fedora, Suse and Mandrake), but all experiences ran down to the same thing: installing updates was very slow if they numbered more than just a few. So after some time, I tried other distros, among them, and the best and most beautiful of them all, was Mandrake: easy to install, easy to update, very nice to look at. But all of them had this very serious problem, which caused me to download only one, or at most two, CDs (out of the six or sometimes even more than that): after a number of updates it got very difficult to install applications from the CDs, as the change got larger and larger that the necessary installed dependencies were updated to a new version, and so could not be used by the software on the CDs, which needed the original versions: this is the real dependency hell.** | ||
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+ | RedHat offrait des mises à jour gratuites pendant un an (je dis cela de mémoire, mais je l’ai peut-être confondu avec des essais ultérieurs de, par exemple, Fedora, Suse et Mandrake), mais toutes les expériences arrivaient aux mêmes résultats : | ||
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+ | **Ubuntu | ||
In 2004, I was fortunate enough to discover Ubuntu, the very first version, 4.10 (“Warty Warthog”). This was the real thing, right from the start, and nothing but the real thing. I first tried it as it just was the only Linux distro I found to offer Kst, a program for showing graphs and diagrams from large sets of data, that I was translating into Dutch, for the KDE desktop, but I soon discovered more... | In 2004, I was fortunate enough to discover Ubuntu, the very first version, 4.10 (“Warty Warthog”). This was the real thing, right from the start, and nothing but the real thing. I first tried it as it just was the only Linux distro I found to offer Kst, a program for showing graphs and diagrams from large sets of data, that I was translating into Dutch, for the KDE desktop, but I soon discovered more... | ||
- | Ubuntu came on just one (Live) CD, and more free software was to be downloaded from repositories, | + | Ubuntu came on just one (Live) CD, and more free software was to be downloaded from repositories, |
- | All problems that I had had so far with the other Linux distributions were solved! The globally mirrored repositories in one clean sweep outmoded every other OS: Windows and the other Linux distros. No wonder | + | Ubuntu |
- | Very soon I used Windows only for updating some gear such as my Tomtom, for a number of years, before totally wiping my Windows | + | En 2004, j’ai eu la chance de découvrir Ubuntu, sa toute première version, la 4.10 (« Warty Warthog »). Dès le départ, je savais qu’elle était vraiment ce qu’il me fallait, rien que cela ! Je l’avais essayé parce que c’était la seule distrib. Linux que j’avais trouvée qui offrait Kst, un programme pour les graphiques et diagrammes de très grands ensembles de données, que je traduisais en néerlandais pour KDE, mais j’en ai rapidement découvert davantage... |
- | One other thing at which Ubuntu | + | Ubuntu |
- | I have tried Linux Mint. It’s a fork of Ubuntu, and one would think it therefore is probably even better. Something Ubuntu should have been if Ubuntu were perfect. But I have had a lot more trouble with my video cards in Mint than I ever had in Ubuntu. I think LM, while it is more beautiful (it really is), is nothing special. So there is no reason at all to replace Ubuntu with LM, while the opposite is possibly more true. | + | **All problems that I had had so far with the other Linux distributions were solved! The globally mirrored repositories in one clean sweep outmoded every other OS: Windows and the other Linux distros. No wonder |
- | In the earlier days, I used Kubuntu: Ubuntu using the KDE desktop. It was then when I started translating | + | Very soon I used Windows only for updating |
- | And after a while, Gnome 2 also got obsolete, and was, prematurely again, replaced by Gnome 3, which again was not the forward move. So when Ubuntu | + | Tous les problèmes que j’avais eus jusqu’alors avec les autres distributions Linux étaient résolus ! Faisant table rase du passé, les dépôts à l’échelle globale ont rendu tout autre OS, Windows et les autres distrib. Linux, obsolètes. Pas étonnant qu'Ubuntu |
- | There are also the other, lighter, versions of Ubuntu: Xubunu, Lubuntu and more. Most of them I tried, on a netbook and older notebooks and desktops. They all work very well, but I always noted, after a while, these, oh so tiny, things that did not work as expected. Small things indeed, until you notice them: in Ubuntu | + | Très vite, je n’utilisais Windows que pour la mise à jour de quelques dispositifs comme mon Tomtom, pour quelques années, avant d’enlever mon Windows |
- | That’s my story. Many users of Ubuntu nowadays have no idea how Ubuntu revolutionized Linux computing, and why Ubuntu became so popular in practically no time at all. Sometimes the original version, 4.10 or “Warty Warthog”, is sneered at, even by the Canonical people themselves, but even this “unpolished” version was a smash hit, right from the start. And got me hooked :). So, for them, these reminiscences, | + | **One other thing at which Ubuntu shines is the recognition of hardware. Once in a while, a piece of new hardware is not recognized, but after some time it magically is: a driver for it has become available (developers: |
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+ | I have tried Linux Mint. It’s a fork of Ubuntu, and one would think it therefore is probably even better. Something Ubuntu should have been if Ubuntu were perfect. But I have had a lot more trouble with my video cards in Mint than I ever had in Ubuntu. I think LM, while it is more beautiful (it really is), is nothing special. So there is no reason at all to replace Ubuntu with LM, while the opposite is possibly more true.** | ||
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+ | Un autre domaine dans lequel Ubuntu brille, c'est la reconnaissance du matériel. De temps en temps, un élément d’un nouveau matériel n’est pas reconnu, mais après quelque temps il l’est, comme par magie : un pilote ad hoc est devenu disponible (aux développeurs, | ||
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+ | J’ai essayé Linux Mint (LM). C’est un fork d’Ubuntu et on pourrait penser donc qu’il est sans doute mieux, quelque chose qu' | ||
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+ | **In the earlier days, I used Kubuntu: Ubuntu using the KDE desktop. It was then when I started translating for KDE (or did I when using Mandrake?). The desktop at the time was KDE 3: really lovely, the desktop around at the time. But some unfortunate moment it was, very prematurely, | ||
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+ | Jadis, j’utilisais Kubuntu, c’est-à-dire Ubuntu avec le bureau KDE. C' | ||
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+ | **And after a while, Gnome 2 also got obsolete, and was, prematurely again, replaced by Gnome 3, which again was not the forward move. So when Ubuntu ditched Gnome 3 and launched Ubuntu with a new desktop, Unity, I was prepared to give that desktop a chance. After some time using it, I realized that I began to love Unity, even if I did not use all the features that it has. For that last reason I am quite prepared to give Ubuntu, with an evolved Gnome 3, from 18.04, a real chance again. | ||
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+ | There are also the other, lighter, versions of Ubuntu: Xubunu, Lubuntu and more. Most of them I tried, on a netbook and older notebooks and desktops. They all work very well, but I always noted, after a while, these, oh so tiny, things that did not work as expected. Small things indeed, until you notice them: in Ubuntu (with Unity) giving no problem at all, but when noticed they get a bit irritating. But these versions keep these small and old machines going. And, to be honest: maybe Unity gives the same experience to a user who is accustomed to the lighter versions!** | ||
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+ | Et, au fil du temps, Gnome 2 est aussi devenu obsolète et, à nouveau prématurément, | ||
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+ | Il existe aussi d' | ||
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+ | **That’s my story. Many users of Ubuntu nowadays have no idea how Ubuntu revolutionized Linux computing, and why Ubuntu became so popular in practically no time at all. Sometimes the original version, 4.10 or “Warty Warthog”, is sneered at, even by the Canonical people themselves, but even this “unpolished” version was a smash hit, right from the start. And got me hooked :). So, for them, these reminiscences, | ||
I have no idea how things are now for the other, once great distros such as RedHat, Fedora, Suse. They must have evolved in the meantime too, and some remarks I made concerning them certainly are not true anymore. But they once were, until Ubuntu came along and showed the way. | I have no idea how things are now for the other, once great distros such as RedHat, Fedora, Suse. They must have evolved in the meantime too, and some remarks I made concerning them certainly are not true anymore. But they once were, until Ubuntu came along and showed the way. | ||
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- | * RedHat 5.1 image is from September 1998 issue of PC Magazine UK | + | * RedHat 5.1 image is from September 1998 issue of PC Magazine UK** |
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+ | Voilà mon histoire. De nos jours, beaucoup d' | ||
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+ | Je n'ai aucune idée du succès actuel des autres distrib.puissantes, | ||
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+ | Il faut remercier le concepteur, Mark Shuttleworth, | ||
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