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- | I stumbled upon the free software world entirely by accident. It was around 1999. I was living with roommates and one of them started a software development course at his college. I had Windows 98 installed on my PC, and an analogue TV Capture card that refused to work at full-screen, | + | ===== 1 ===== |
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+ | **I stumbled upon the free software world entirely by accident. It was around 1999. I was living with roommates and one of them started a software development course at his college. I had Windows 98 installed on my PC, and an analogue TV Capture card that refused to work at full-screen, | ||
One day, I saw my roommate playing around with a brand new system on his computer: Red Hat Linux. He used the command line a lot, typing in a black-and-green window – but still, I was mesmerized. It seemed very easy to use it, and he claimed it all worked out of the box: no drivers necessary. I asked if I could try it on my own PC. He then revealed to me it is free and no license key is needed – that last bit made the sale – no more tinkering endlessly just to get my PC to work without crashing every 5-10 minutes.... | One day, I saw my roommate playing around with a brand new system on his computer: Red Hat Linux. He used the command line a lot, typing in a black-and-green window – but still, I was mesmerized. It seemed very easy to use it, and he claimed it all worked out of the box: no drivers necessary. I asked if I could try it on my own PC. He then revealed to me it is free and no license key is needed – that last bit made the sale – no more tinkering endlessly just to get my PC to work without crashing every 5-10 minutes.... | ||
- | He burned me a copy of the CD. Those were the 14.4 Kbps dial-up modem days, so downloading another copy would have delayed me another day or two. I installed it alongside my Windows 98, and tried to see if everything worked. And it did. Well, except my modem, which was a Winmodem. But that was easily fixed after searching the Internet, using AltaVista Search in the pre-Google days. | + | He burned me a copy of the CD. Those were the 14.4 Kbps dial-up modem days, so downloading another copy would have delayed me another day or two. I installed it alongside my Windows 98, and tried to see if everything worked. And it did. Well, except my modem, which was a Winmodem. But that was easily fixed after searching the Internet, using AltaVista Search in the pre-Google days.** |
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+ | J'ai découvert le monde des Logiciels libres tout à fait par hasard. C'est aux environs de 1999. Je vivais avec des co-locataires et l'un d'eux a démarré un cours de développement de logiciels à son université. Windows 98 était installé sur mon PC ainsi qu'une carte de capture TV analogique qui refusait de fonctionner en plein écran, même avec tous les pilotes mis à jour et réinstallés ! | ||
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+ | Un jour, j'ai vu mon co-locataire jouer avec un tout nouveau système sur son ordinateur : Red Hat Linux. Il utilisait beaucoup la ligne de commande, saisissant des trucs dans une fenêtre noire et verte - n' | ||
+ | Il m'a gravé une copie du CD. C' | ||
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+ | **I started my journey with computers at the age of 13, back in the mid 80s, with a Commodore 64. I used it mostly for gaming, of course, but I even tried to program a bit of BASIC with it. I then moved to the PC world using DOS 1.0 and all through Window 3.1, Windows 95 (I even touched Windows Millennium Edition for a bit!), so I was no stranger to the command line. I always liked to see how things worked under the hood, so I felt right at home with my new Linux-based machine. After two weeks – during which I made sure all I needed works, even my TV Capture card worked better in Linux – I backed up my files, formatted my entire hard drive, and made the move to the Free Software world – and never looked back! | ||
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+ | The first Ubuntu I installed was version 5.04, back in 2005. I read up a lot about it in the Linux news sites, and I grew tired of KDE at the time and wanted to try something new. I stuck with Ubuntu since then. I tried LiveCD versions of Fedora now and then, but none of them were as usable and stable as Ubuntu. I also liked the fact that all new applications come out with Ubuntu clients first (eg, Steam by Valve), and the way it's set up out of the box: the most popular applications in each category, and the fact the primary user has to use the “sudo” command and is not allowed to log in as the root user by default. I think this strategy saves a lot of grief from inexperienced users. Another thing I love about Ubuntu, although controversial, | ||
- | I started my journey with computers at the age of 13, back in the mid 80s, with a Commodore 64. I used it mostly for gaming, of course, but I even tried to program a bit of BASIC with it. I then moved to the PC world using DOS 1.0 and all through Window | + | Mon voyage dans le monde des ordinateurs a débuté quand j' |
- | The first Ubuntu | + | Le premier |
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