It's already August of 2009. It means I've been using GNU/Linux as the operating system of my computer for about four years. Yes, my first experience with Linux happened on August of 2005. I remembered it happened when I found something wrong with my non-original MS Windows that made me have to re-install it. There was a little problem, I had no copy of MS Office. So I started searching for an alternative Office suite that led me to OpenOffice.org. I almost decided to download the OOo in an internet cafe, but the file size is too large that it would take a very a long long long time to finih the download. So, I went a bookstore, found a book about OOo-with an extra CD-there, and of course I then bought it.
After some periods of time, something went wrong again (and again) with the MS Windows that made feel so tired of re-installing it. Then I thought about using Linux as an alternative and legal operating system. After trying some Live CD's distributions, I installed my first GNU/Linux in my computer, SUSE 9.1 Personal. At first, I decided to use a dual-boot in my computer, but in my next adventure, I began to more and more fall in love with Linux, so I decided to erase the MS Windows from my computer completely.
To shorten this story, along these four years, I've been trying and installing many Linux distributions in my computer. Some of them need a more hardware resource aka the heavyweight distributions/distros and some others only need a little hardware resource aka lightweight distributions.
After spending some time with Xubuntu (it was actually Ubuntu Muslim Edition which I switched to Xubuntu desktop), I've finally found a more lighweight Linux distributions, PC/OS. I have some reasons to use PC/OS. First, this distro is also based on Xubuntu which means, it uses XFCE desktop that is so light and fast for a computer with a lack of hardware like mine.
The second reason, unlike Ubuntu or Xubuntu that has no support for propietary multimedia files by default, PC/OS has a more support of multimedia files such as MP3, MPEG videos, and other multimedia formats.
The third reason, if the software shipped in PC/OS CD is not enough, I can easily add the other softwares from the Ubuntu repositories.
Well, that's my story of my experience with GNU/Linux. There is one last story to tell that really makes me so proud of. I did my Final Task to graduate from my college with Linux. Right from the start. From the time I designed it, tested the design, simulated the design, created the report, created the graphics, and even created the presentation for my Final Task Seminar and Final Task Exams. All are done under GNU/Linux. I actually used a simulator that natively ran under Windows, so had to use a MS Windows emulator to use it. I can say that I might be the first non Information and Computer Technology student that used Linux completely in the Final Task.
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