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 *Previous experience with Slackware, Redhat, and Suse distributions on older, slow machines (i.e. 486 vintage,4-8 meg ram)
 *Continued frustration with Win-doze and associated problems (spyware, viruses, sluggish performance) have driven me back to Linux
 *Having newly discovered Ubuntu I am overjoyed and anxious to rekindle my enthusiasm for Linux
 *Desire to start a Local Community Team in Cincinnati, OH area and proliferate/advocate Ubuntu to friends & family


My current setup: Compaq Presario 2100US laptop with 40 MB HD/255MB ram running Win-doze XP home (pre-installed for me at purchase)

Upgrade path:
 *Purchased Western digital 80GB drive/1 Gig ram
 *Plan to install Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 onto new HD
 *Will save old HD with XP OS and transfer data as needed

Future plans:
 *Purchase PowerBook laptop with OSX
 *Contemplating dual boot setup (OSX/Ubuntu) for this future machine

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Bob Solimeno

Email: MailTo(solimeno@gmail.com)

  • Previous experience with Slackware, Redhat, and Suse distributions on older, slow machines (i.e. 486 vintage,4-8 meg ram)
  • Continued frustration with Win-doze and associated problems (spyware, viruses, sluggish performance) have driven me back to Linux
  • Having newly discovered Ubuntu I am overjoyed and anxious to rekindle my enthusiasm for Linux
  • Desire to start a Local Community Team in Cincinnati, OH area and proliferate/advocate Ubuntu to friends & family

My current setup: Compaq Presario 2100US laptop with 40 MB HD/255MB ram running Win-doze XP home (pre-installed for me at purchase)

Upgrade path:

  • Purchased Western digital 80GB drive/1 Gig ram
  • Plan to install Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 onto new HD
  • Will save old HD with XP OS and transfer data as needed

Future plans:

  • Purchase PowerBook laptop with OSX

  • Contemplating dual boot setup (OSX/Ubuntu) for this future machine

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