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My Experience with GNU/Linux

The Beginning My Dell Inspiron N4010 came preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Basic. After one year or so, I decided to try out GNU/Linux. Why you say? Well, my interest grew when I came to who about the concept of Open Source Software. I started exploring Wikipedia to know more about Open Source Software. Read lots of articles there, and came across the licensing term GPL numerous number of times. While investigating what GPL was, I came to know about the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation and the GNU/Linux OS. Then, I thought about giving GNU/Linux I try. Now, everybody has a vision about GNU/Linux.. It is THE operating system which a techie would use. And it is free. So let's download and install it!! But........ What to download? The Installation The first thing I realized, there were lots of different downloadable distribution of GNU/Linux. Now the question was, which one to choose? So as I figured, with some help from Google of course, Ubuntu was (and still is) th...

The First Post

Hello, Blogger! This is my first post as a blogger. Don't really know what to write... This blog is gonna be a window to my daily life, reflecting my tastes, opinions and anything in between. Stay tuned for more :)