Kyaw Zay Thu

Differences between revisions 17 and 22 (spanning 5 versions)
Revision 17 as of 2006-06-28 23:06:23
Size: 3251
Editor: CPE-139-168-227-214
Comment:
Revision 22 as of 2008-08-06 16:24:05
Size: 3624
Editor: localhost
Comment: converted to 1.6 markup
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 1: Line 1:
||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents]]|| ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''<<BR>><<TableOfContents>>||
Line 12: Line 12:
===== Linux ===== === Linux ===
Line 17: Line 17:
===== Ubuntu ===== === Ubuntu ===
Line 20: Line 20:
That's pretty much it. I installed Breezy once the preview release came out (got broadband between Hoary and Breezy) and stayed with Breezy until February '06, at which point I switched to Dapper. I'm planning on switching to edgy soon, but not quite yet :) That's pretty much it. I installed Breezy once the preview release came out (got broadband between Hoary and Breezy) and stayed with Breezy until February '06, at which point I switched to Dapper, and I'm now running edgy.
Line 24: Line 24:
 * I've done a lot of work on the AustralianTeam wiki, maintaining most of it  * I've done a lot of work on the AustralianTeam wiki, now working as the ''official'' ;) AustralianTeam wiki maintainer.
Line 26: Line 26:
 * I'm doing work in the [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-en-au ubuntu-I10n-en-au translation team]  * I'm doing work in the [[https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-en-au|ubuntu-I10n-en-au translation team]]
 * In the hope of obtaining a unified commonwealth english translation, I'm also working in the [[https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-en-gb|ubuntu-I10n-en-gb translation team]]. (See also EnglishTranslation)
 * I'm working on a few howtos for the community documentation, eg https://help.ubuntu.com/community/F-SpotHowto
Line 29: Line 31:
||E-mail||[[MailTo(MattVermeulen@gmail.com)]]|| ||E-mail||<<MailTo(MattVermeulen@gmail.com)>>||
Line 32: Line 34:
||Homepage||http://www.matthewv.id.au/||

Welcome

Hello...

I'm Matthew Vermeulen. I've been using ubuntu since August 2005. I think Ubuntu is the best Linux distro around, which is why I am currently a member of the AustralianTeam, trying to do what I can for Ubuntu. Smile :) I've been a member since March 2006.

About Me

How I Found Ubuntu

Linux

I was introduced to Linux by Knoppix around the beginning of 2004. At the time, I had hardly heard of Linux, and I was hoping that Knoppix (3.3) would run faster on my old, old P1 133 Smile :) First time I tried to boot it I thought something was wrong, because it would get to starting X and no further. Eventually I got it to boot the whole way by selecting Fluxbox WM. One night I left it overnight to boot, and found a nice KDE desktop in the morning. I timed it a few weeks later and realised that it was not freezing, it was just taking 2.5 hours to boot :D.

I installed Knoppix to my hard drive in the hope that it would run faster there. It did, only taking about 15 minutes to boot instead. A few months later I found a computer magazine with Mandrake Linux 9.0 on it, and gave that a try. Over the next 1.5 years I tried a number of distros, all on my old Pentium 1. These included, Red Hat 7.2, Mandrake 9.0 and later 9.2, Lycoris Desktop/LX and SUSE 9.2. All of these were what I could pick up from computer magazines...

Ubuntu

Then, one day in May 2005 I was bored, browsing the web, when I came across Shipit on the Ubuntu website. I thought it was too good to be true, and so I didn't bother with it. However, my curiosity got the better of me and I placed an order and promptly forgot about it. Just over a month later, my CDs arrived! I put the live cd in my computer, restarted, watched stacks of text scroll past, and then X failed to start :(. I gave up on my computer (now a PIII 800 Mhz with Win XP and SUSE 9.2) and tried the family Celeron 2.4. I loved the look, but decided I would just have to live with Windows XP and the occasional play in SUSE. However, a few weeks later, I spent a whole morning getting X to work on the live cd. I then installed Ubuntu 5.04 on the hard drive, and over the next few weeks moved entirely from Windows to Ubuntu.

That's pretty much it. I installed Breezy once the preview release came out (got broadband between Hoary and Breezy) and stayed with Breezy until February '06, at which point I switched to Dapper, and I'm now running edgy.

What I've done

Contact Details

E-mail

<MattVermeulen@gmail.com>

Launchpad

https://launchpad.net/people/mattvermeulen

IRC

Matthewv or Wikiman on irc.freenode.net

Homepage

http://www.matthewv.id.au/


CategoryHomepage

Kyaw Zay Thu (last edited 2011-11-06 21:10:33 by 184)