New Year Resolutions - 2007 |
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By: Ringo Pebam * |
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You love music.
To kiss away the beer bottles goodbye, To jog and loose 15 Kg of over weight, To pay off the credit card bills, To get organised more, To play the guitar, To discover a new comet, To laugh more, To climb Koubru, To ban the bandhs in Manipur, To fight against child kidnapping and atrocities, To sell off your CBZ and buy a computer, To write a novel, To patent your invention, To write a device driver for your TV Tuner Card, To go for Roger Waters’s concert in Mumbai in Feb ’07, To Watch "Blue Diamond" and "Rocky Balboa"... The list goes on… Hey, hold on! I am hearing something… Oh, Holy Smoke!! To try out Linux!! Is that one of your New Year resolutions? Do I hear a ‘YES’ ??
If you are tired of the blue screen called Windows, which you installed paying royalty fees to
Now, how to start with - You have a computer and you have Windows running - fine, no hassles, it’s simple, easy and adventurous. Worry not, you are not going to have your Windows gone for the sake of trying your hand in Linux; you can have a dual-boot system, where you will have both operating systems - you can boot to any OS of your choice. Just get going:
You are _fortunate_ to have people ready to help and support you. You have a machine - you run MS Word, Win amp, Media Player, Adobe Photoshop, NFS, Age of Empire, Internet Explorer etc etc…. The world of computer doesn’t go beyond that? Agent Smiths, stay away! The Saints are here… WAKE UP NEO, THE MATRIX HAS YOU, TRY OUT LINUX – for freedom, for ethics, for sharing, for excellence… The Free and Open Source Software communities the world over in general and we folks at Linux Manipur in particular are always there.
(Note: We are _not_ afraid to give away our phone numbers, but it’s _not_ just proper to give phone number here in world wide web; just drop down a mail first, we will be there - leave alone the phone call replies, we can even come(if time permits) to your place and give a demo)
You are young, wild and free,
Related Articles: http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/ Open Source / GNU / LINUX - E-pao.net And dear elders, you need not loose heart; there are even grannies who love Linux http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/gran3.shtml Ringo Pebam, a software Engineer in Bangalore and GNU/LINUX enthusiast, writes regularly to e-pao.net He can be contacted at [email protected] This article was webcasted on December 27, 2006. |
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