I had nothing to write about to start my blog about open source till one of my friends suggested to write about my own experience with open source software, I thought about it and decided to write about Ubuntu (Linux) which is an open source operating system that you can search for it on the Internet and download it free of charge.
The first time I tried it, to tell the truth I didn't even know how to install it, so I thought I'd try to set it up by myself without any searching and that wasn't such a good idea because I did something so wrong that I managed to erase all the data from one of my drives!!! (till now I don't know how I did it :D) but anyway after some reading like I should have done in the first place - I also got some help from my TA - I succeeded and it worked fine this time thanks God, actually it was very simple I only did something wrong by mistake the first time J.
When it got started it had this dry orange color so it made me hate it already but I thought it wasn't fair to judge it just from its appearance which can have really cool effects by the way and you can enable some of the visual effects by choosing the “extra” choice from the “Visual Effects” tab in “Appearance Preferences”.
So I tried to work with Ubuntu and I started to like it a little bit, it looks much like normal Windows OS so windows users (like me) will be at ease while using it. It has this great feature to be able to easily find free software from the internet and download and install them automatically.
Also it helped me with my music files; due to my lack of organization I can't seem to find any song easily so each time I search for a song I must open it, listen to it and know what it was but Linux allows you to run tracks by just moving your cursor to the song file, so it was much fun to listen to a playlist just by moving my mouse, it felt like I was a DJ!!
Anyway like any other new thing once I got the hang of it, it was easy to use.
The first time I tried it, to tell the truth I didn't even know how to install it, so I thought I'd try to set it up by myself without any searching and that wasn't such a good idea because I did something so wrong that I managed to erase all the data from one of my drives!!! (till now I don't know how I did it :D) but anyway after some reading like I should have done in the first place - I also got some help from my TA - I succeeded and it worked fine this time thanks God, actually it was very simple I only did something wrong by mistake the first time J.
When it got started it had this dry orange color so it made me hate it already but I thought it wasn't fair to judge it just from its appearance which can have really cool effects by the way and you can enable some of the visual effects by choosing the “extra” choice from the “Visual Effects” tab in “Appearance Preferences”.
So I tried to work with Ubuntu and I started to like it a little bit, it looks much like normal Windows OS so windows users (like me) will be at ease while using it. It has this great feature to be able to easily find free software from the internet and download and install them automatically.
Also it helped me with my music files; due to my lack of organization I can't seem to find any song easily so each time I search for a song I must open it, listen to it and know what it was but Linux allows you to run tracks by just moving your cursor to the song file, so it was much fun to listen to a playlist just by moving my mouse, it felt like I was a DJ!!
Anyway like any other new thing once I got the hang of it, it was easy to use.
