A bit about me and Linux

I am an Englishman who has spent most of his adult life working in other countries. I have been living in Vienna, Austria since 1998 but that is all another story. This blog is (mainly) about Ubuntu, so here I will simply explain how I came to be an Ubuntu enthusiast.
When I first moved to Vienna I happened to buy a book called “Linux for Dummies” which contained an installation CD for SuSE Linux 5.3. This was my first introduction to Linux and I have never looked back.
I faithfully remained a SuSE aficionado until SuSE -10 when Novell took over and totally wrecked the backup system I had been using for years (I was using Mondo by Hugo Rabson). Dispite several emails to Novell they never had the courtesy to reply, so in 2005 I moved to Fedora Core 4. Fedora Core is an excellent distibution and I found many things to be much easier than with SuSE. It was only after reading an article in Linux Magazine about Ubuntu that I decided to install Ubuntu on a second partition and try it out. I was absolutely smitten! Every thing just works and the few problems I have had have been quickly resolved by searching the Ubuntu Forums

All I want to do on this blog is to offer links to some of the Ubuntu resources that I find useful, some tips, tricks and tweaks I have found out about and to blog any “problems ” I have encountered while playing around with Ubuntu, together with the solutions I used to solve the problems.

I have been blogging about Ubuntu (and some other things) on Wordpress since January 2007. If you would like to have a look at some older posts they can be seen here.

I hope that this blog will be useful to someone