Hello LQ Forum.

I am a newcomer to Linux and I live north of Atlanta, near Cumming, GA. I've been a fan of UNIX since the seventies, when I worked with AT&T. I've been away from it a long time, though. Thankfully, a lot of what I knew at the $ prompt is now coming back. I can see that I have much to learn and to relearn, though. I'm glad to see that there is so much interest in the various descendants of the UNIX I knew.

I just put variants of Linux on two old PCs, and plan to use it with a new one too:

1. - An about 12 year old Dell 1150 Inspiron with Celeron, 2.6GHz clock, 30G drive on which I wiped away XP Home, replacing it with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32 bit. That installation seems to have gone pretty smoothly.

2. - An about 15 year old no-name tower with 430 MHz clock, 512 MB RAM, two 10G drives, on which I blew away XP Pro and loaded antiX MX-14.3. It's running, but this one has had a few surprises. These may be because of the fact that I loaded a PAE version of MX-14.3 when I probably should have instead loaded the non-PAE version. I will reload the non-PAE variant when it arrives on disk this week. Then I will formulate some questions around whatever surprises and error messages show up.

3. - I am planning for a third PC, which is a Dell i5 with 8G RAM, 3+GHz clock, and Windows 8.1, to have a Linux "virtual machine" capability.

Anyway, I'm glad to be playing at the UNIX family camp again. Working with vi/vim and my old shell scripts, I was astonished at how "at home" I felt right away.

Just having fun and glad to be here amongst you fellow travelers and so many UNIX/Linux experts.

Now I have to learn how to go get the crypt command. It does not seem to be in MX-14.3, and I have some shell scripts which call it.

Happy Day.

Welcome aboard, & back to *nix. MX has a good forum at http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewforum.php?f=104

(Also there is an Ubuntu forum if you search Google.)

Howdy and Welcome. Smart move joining this forum also.
This forum has a treasure trove of info for new linux users to peruse.

Just explore the top toolbar on this forums site. Something I did years ago. The search function works real good on this site also.

Hello fatmac and Roky.

Thank you for the warm welcome.

It's going to be fun, and I'm looking forward to growing into the new UNIX world.

Roky, that's very handy having those useful links in your signature.