As the title suggests, I'm going to write about Linux in this blog. Probably I'll write about some other things also, but I plan on starting some other blog for writing about those things (such as leadership, theology, personal matters and so on). But I'm not even certain I'll open such blogs. If I do, they will probably be in swedish anyways. I have not decided the regularity, or how long I'll be doing it, but let's see about that. This is mostly for myself wanting to write about things I've been going and thinking about, it is not otherwise from a certain perspective or something.
Now I'm 26 years old, and started using computers when I was maybe 10 or something. I've for a long time been somewhat of a computer geek, first sitting and hacking with DOS and windows 3.1, and a couple of years later I tried Linux. I've been using Linux regularly for at least the last twelve years, and as my main OS since 2001 (or was it earlier? I don't really remember, but at least in 2002 I had no other OS installed on the computer. I remember sitting a long quite a long time with DOS and Borland Turbo Pascal, but at some point I switched to C++ development, and suppose I kicked out DOS completely at that point.)
Firstly I used Slackware, which I think was a good OS. After a few years I switched to Debian, which I felt was a big improvement, easier to use, more packages, easier to upgrade, more autoconfiguration and so on. It was also easier to customize, in the way that you could add your own customizations while the system still had the control of over everything else. One example is the init scripts, which in Slackware is BSD-style, and in Debian SysV-style. With sysv-style, you can easily add your own init-scripts, while the OS still manages all the other scripts and updates them when packages are updated. After a few years on Debian I switched to Ubuntu in 2005, which I also felt was a quite big improvement. Not as big as the Slackware -> Debian, but anyways better. It was the old familiar Debian system at the bottom, while being easier to use and adding some other niceties. Ubuntu has it's bugs though (but Debian testing which I used, also had theirs), but overall it is a decent OS. And after the Hardy Heron has had some time to stabilize, it is (at least for me) a quite stable system.
Nowadays I'm not so geaky anymore, and am slipping away from the 'computer as a hobby' - usage pattern. Now I more want things to just work, and don't like so much spending time on configuration and kernel compiles and the likes. But I still has all the knowledge from all my computer experience, so I hope that writing from this perspective could provide some insights not found so much elsewhere. Of course my knowledge is very limited compared to the real pros out there, but compared to the average Linux user who just wants to use the computer, I think I am quite more computer-proficient. I have alse studied two years of computer science, which should give me some knowledge.
This is my first post, and I think this would be enough for this time. I'll come back with some more substantial posts later on, such as what the biggest weaknesses of Linux is, and some ideas on how those could be remedied.
