Introduction

Okay, so this is my very first stab at blogging.  What I would like to accomplish with this blog, is to help transition people over to Ubuntu from Windows in the easiest way possible.  My goal here is to provide a forum where people can ask specific questions that are usually received most negatively by other sites/blogs for being to basic and elementary.  Not everyone is computer saavy and not everyone is computer literate.  So basically I see this as the first site people might go to to get their feet wet with Ubuntu, and then jump to other sites when they feel a little more comfortable with the term….inology (and possibly the term…..inal too).

The purpose of this blog is not to be a debat or bashing blog.  I don’t want to see any negative comments towards anyone asking a question.  If they are asking a question, it means that they want to learn something that they don’t already know.  Therefore, they are NOT stupid for asking it.  Not everyone has the same knowledge on this subject that you might have.  Secondly, I really don’t want this site to become a platform for debating which operating system is better.  My reason for starting this site is not to prove or show that Ubuntu is the best operating system.  I’m just hoping to try to make the OS market a little less monopolistic.  Having one company control around 90 percent of the OS market is only good for that company alone.

A little about me.  I have made my career as a windows developer starting in classic VB and now .NET.  Now I find myself more and more wanting to do more in linux and the open source community but haven’t really gotten my feet wet yet.

I started using Ubuntu back in version 7.04 Fiesty Fawn.  For those of you new to Ubuntu, they release a new version of the software every six months in April (04) and October (10).  So version 7.04 means that it was the April 2007 release of the software.  They also name each release with a name, and the 7.04 version was called Fiesty Fawn.  We are now in version 9.10 since the October 2009 version was just released, and it is called Karmic Koala.  So I have been using Ubuntu for about 2 1/2 years.  It hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and I’m hoping I can impart some of the knowledge I’ve garnered along the way to help make some peoples transition over an easier one.