As the subheading says, I’m new to Linux. Ubuntu Learner tracks my experience of learning by mistakes with Ubuntu, Edgy Eft, and boy, I’ve made a few. But by mistakes you learn, even if some of the mistakes have been like the beast who cannot die. I hope in some small way my stumblings will help others new to Linux and in particular, Ubuntu, because like most ex-XP users, I hadn’t a clue about Linux, despite fooling myself that I had read up on it. It seems I can only learn by doing. And as I tend to push out the envelope (as someone in my middle-fifties I should have learned to be more cautious!), I get myself into trouble all the time, so there are many learning curves, hopefully putting down fresh neurons on a daily basis!
One of the things that attracted me to Ubuntu was the philosophy as expounded by Desmond Tutu, which the Ubuntu community has adopted:
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole.
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness)
Which leads neatly to the second reason: the Ubuntu Community. A very active member of this community is Carthik Sharma, who I came across in the Planet Ubuntu aggregator blog. In his own Ubuntu Blog, he has asked Do you blog about Ubuntu?
Which is a question that’s typical of the Ubuntu philosophy, I’d say.
In the next post I hope to write about how I got Flash 9 going last night, but this morning it was gone again. Another learning curve.
