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Posted 01-30-2009 at 03:41 AM by hooked2u
I was reluctant to go full time Linux because the financial program I use for my financial data was Quicken. I found Moneydance which has many of the features I am accustomed to with Quicken.
Only 2 of my PC's still have M$ XP. My Latitude D505 that was my gift for completing 2 years of Associate Degree, came with XP Pro installed plus M$ programming software, and M$ Office Suite 2005. The school gave me XP Home CD if my HDD ever becomes corrupted. Of course, I will lose all the programming software, too. My MSI Wind Netbook arrived with XP Home pre-installed. I uninstalled the trial M$ Office 2007 Suite and installed OpenOffice. I plan to keep XP installed on this PC. I can't type as fast as I would prefer on this platform. My hands are too large for the keyboard. If I were a two finger typist the MSI Wind keyboard would better suit me. I recently purchase the Acer Aspire Netbook which also came with XP Home pre-installed, but soon it will run only Linux. The Acer has a better adaptible keyboard for my large hands. My office suite for the Acer is OpenOffice.
All my other PC's, even my i486 Latitude 100 MHz CPU, have a Linux distro installed. My i486 Latitude uses Puppy, installed on its 10 MB HDD. Video RAM is 1 MB and RAM is 32 MB. My desktop PC's run Mandriva, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, and Linux Mint. I am building a new PC that will run CentOS to be used primarily for study prepartation for Linux Certification test.
My local LUG is the Akron Linux Users Group. I have been a member for the past 8 years. I was first introduced to Unix in college while taking programming courses. My full time job (law enforcement), several failed marriages, and single parenting prevented my graduation prior to retirement.
I became a shareholder of a local Internet Service Provider, www.config.com, and convinced the company to switch from M$ to FreeBSD. The brief introduction to Unix at college didn't help much. I had to learn FreeBSD from scratch. Networking was new to me also. I learned much about FreeBSD and networking during the year and one-half at the ISP.
My experience with computing has been difficult. I am mostly self learned, but if I don't use some aspect of programming or an operating system, I tend to forget things. This may be partly due to my age. I consider my experience with the *nix's to be Senior Citizen Newbie.
Best regards,
Terry
Only 2 of my PC's still have M$ XP. My Latitude D505 that was my gift for completing 2 years of Associate Degree, came with XP Pro installed plus M$ programming software, and M$ Office Suite 2005. The school gave me XP Home CD if my HDD ever becomes corrupted. Of course, I will lose all the programming software, too. My MSI Wind Netbook arrived with XP Home pre-installed. I uninstalled the trial M$ Office 2007 Suite and installed OpenOffice. I plan to keep XP installed on this PC. I can't type as fast as I would prefer on this platform. My hands are too large for the keyboard. If I were a two finger typist the MSI Wind keyboard would better suit me. I recently purchase the Acer Aspire Netbook which also came with XP Home pre-installed, but soon it will run only Linux. The Acer has a better adaptible keyboard for my large hands. My office suite for the Acer is OpenOffice.
All my other PC's, even my i486 Latitude 100 MHz CPU, have a Linux distro installed. My i486 Latitude uses Puppy, installed on its 10 MB HDD. Video RAM is 1 MB and RAM is 32 MB. My desktop PC's run Mandriva, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, and Linux Mint. I am building a new PC that will run CentOS to be used primarily for study prepartation for Linux Certification test.
My local LUG is the Akron Linux Users Group. I have been a member for the past 8 years. I was first introduced to Unix in college while taking programming courses. My full time job (law enforcement), several failed marriages, and single parenting prevented my graduation prior to retirement.
I became a shareholder of a local Internet Service Provider, www.config.com, and convinced the company to switch from M$ to FreeBSD. The brief introduction to Unix at college didn't help much. I had to learn FreeBSD from scratch. Networking was new to me also. I learned much about FreeBSD and networking during the year and one-half at the ISP.
My experience with computing has been difficult. I am mostly self learned, but if I don't use some aspect of programming or an operating system, I tend to forget things. This may be partly due to my age. I consider my experience with the *nix's to be Senior Citizen Newbie.
Best regards,
Terry
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