I am new to Linux now for the 3rd time. I tried it years ago and am in awe of the progress since my last failed attempt.

In the 80's when I was a kid I had a commodore 64 and loved working with it and making it do things that they never intended for it to do, writing scripts and basic programming were just part of using a computer. Since Windows came along I lost that love for computing and it became boring at best. Last month I downloaded Mandrake move to have a peek, I was shocked at the progress. I went ahead and downloaded Fedore Core 1 and am having a blast.

I come by here daily and read about how to do this/that/or the other and am learning so much very quickly.

I decided that I am sticking with Linux and formatted over my Win XP partition last week. I decided it was all or nothing.

I have made it so that my wife doesn't even know she is using linux instead of Windows. As far as she knows its just a theme or something. That goes a long way for me.

So far I have had the common Noooooob problems like Up2date crashing, HP printer driver and Nvidia issues but have been able to fix them easily just by reading about it here. I actually enjoy figuring things like this out and hope to be able to get many of my friends to take the leap.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all of the help and I hope that as I progress I will be able to contribute to the forum rather than just take.

Keep up the good work everyone! I am sold on Linux now.

JB

wow... good work if only everybody were that enthusiastic about linux
welcome to LQ by the way, as this appears to be your first post

beep beep beep... I...must ..kill... frank ...drebin...

Welcome to LQ and happy your enthused about using Linux.

Note: Moved to the Intro forum where these types of posts are more suitable. Regards.

great to hear!

if you haven't yet, be sure to check out these guides:

http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/rute.html.gz
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/
http://www.tldp.org

here's a few links to keep you busy for a LONG time

http://freshmeat.net/browse/18/
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php

Oh, ok... My bad.

Thanks

Thanks Genesee!
I think I'll read the first book and go from there. This is great material>

your enthusiasm is our gain Frank_Drebin. Keep reading and posting ---- and bring your friends. Careful though --- wives are *never* fooled.