OK .. it’s time to learn Linux (1)

It’s 7 Feb, a day away from my 19th birthday.
I attended FOSS 09 workshop during the last three days, it was the first FOSS workshop I’ve ever attended.
Before workshop, I had a blur idea about the FOSS philosophy through some articles I used to read, also I’ve watched Revolution OS.

• The workshop helped me get used to this new way of thinking, programming even living.

• As a junior developer I believe that FOSS can make a great worldwide developing knowledge which will improve our studies.

Through my last year I tried to use some open

programs, like GIMP, PIDGIN, FireFox.
They’re all amazing, easy to deal with and the most important thing free.
Now, I want to try new thing, which is Learning Linux.

My First distribution will be :

Ubuntu 8.10 “which was the installation party distribution”.

As mentioned in Ubuntu quote, “it’s a Linux for human being” so I think it’s a good starting point.

I think learning new OS needs alot of steps:

• First step “Installing system”.

I did that today, after suffering with HDD partitioning in the last few days.

1. In the installation party I didn’t have the chance to install it, because my HDD refused to have a third partition.
2. First trial, was to do the operation through the partitioning program which was included in the Ubuntu CD -> the process aborted.
3. Second trial, was to do the operation through a partitioning program which worked on Windows -> after rebooting nothing changed, still had two partitions.
4. Third trial, was to do the operation while SATA support was disabled and retry 3 -> nothing changed.
5. Fourth trial, was to do the operation while SATA support was disabled and retry 2 -> we couldn’t edit the new partition size in “Edit partition” section.
6. There wasn’t any Fifth trial, I closed my laptop and I was sad to go out of the installation party without any Linux.

At night that day, I tried a program called “Acronis Disk Director Suite” which made me conclude that the NTFS table is damaged so I wasn’t able to do any other partitions, but it was easy to get rid of .

• First, moving my files to an external HDD.
• Second, formating that partition.
• Third, having a suitable special partition to install Ubuntu on.
• Fourth, having Ubuntu on my laptop today “at last”.

That’s all for my first step, I will meet you in my next step which I wish it will be easier