Linux and me

2006-10-08 13:07:00 +0200

With “SuSE Linux 5.3” I gave Linux the first try. I just got quite familiar with Windows 95 and was up for something new. I didn’t really know what I was doing but the installation went pretty well - but no X-Server was working with my system… OK, that was it! …until “SuSE Linux 6.3”. I actually got X working and even my soundblaster. For the latter I had to “recompile” the kernel. Again, I had no clue what I was doing, I just followed some instructions I came across via Google. I still preferred using Windows for every day work. This changed a bit when I bought “SuSE Linux 7.2”, which worked out of the box! The follow-up version 7.3 was a disappointment, I had a lot of trouble with it and the same goes for 8.x, so I switchd to “Mandrake 8.2” (which is Mandriva today) and that did hit the spot!

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Getting started...

2006-10-07 23:49:00 +0200

So, now I started this blog. Let’s just wait and see what kind of wisdom it’ll bring to the world. To be honest, I already know: it’ll be mostly about computers and stuff! ;-)

cup

This is my coffee mug, very helpful if I need to use vi

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