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The first time I ever heard about Linux was five years ago, I think. It was in our town library, where they were installing Ubuntu on a PC. That way, everybody willing to learn this new OS could have a go. I even remember multiple CDs lying on the counter waiting for somebody to take them home. And I did. I think it was Feisty Fawn or Gutsy Gibbon. The first time I gave it a try, I was amazed and confused at the same time. Remember, I'm coming from a Windows-only environment. Didn't know the first thing about open source and what it meant or stood for. The only thing I knew was that it was free and not some pirated copy. I'll never forget my first reaction after having taken my first looks at the screen: “what the ……?” This was something I didn't expect. That feeling didn't leave me for a long time. I always thought about Ubuntu in those days as “that other OS.” But it was knowledge that I was missing. Knowledge of what Ubuntu stood for. (And still does.) After playing around with it for some time, I forgot about Ubuntu for a while.
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It was when I attended night-school, for a bachelor’s in IT, that I was again put in contact with Ubuntu. But this time, with much more background to it. This was around the time that Jaunty Jackalope hit the streets. It was there, at school, that I learned much more about the OS itself, about its rich features, the way it works, and so on. From that time on, I've been an enthusiastic user of Ubuntu. Whether it's the desktop version or the server, I'm liking it and using it. At work, there's a mix of Windows and Apple workstations, but I'm glad to see the introduction of Linux. It’s on the server side, but it's a start. When I look back at our town library now, I'm more than happy to see that all of the workstations, public and private, have switched to a Linux OS. Kubuntu, to be precise. So that's my little story about how I came into contact with Ubuntu. It's been some years now, and most of the hardware at home is running Ubuntu and doing just fine. Most people I know these days, consider Linux as their weapon of choice, when it comes to installing a fresh OS on the hardware. I especially like the fact that it doesn't matter whether it's old or new hardware. Just install the OS and run it. (This is a great argument to get people using Ubuntu.)