An introduction to my blog

I'm a Windows System Administrator by trade. I owe my entire career to Microsoft. That said, I hate the business practices. I hate that the user is treated as a criminal by M$. We are forced to activate any new M$ software if there's a major change to our systems in a poor attempt to stop software piracy.

Now there is good to M$. Without them, the PC would not be in practically every home. We wouldn't be using a Mac because it would be cost prohibitive to most of us. We would use computers at work, and that's about it. The Internet would be used by the government and businesses primarily.

But because of the negatives, I decided last year that I was going to start researching Open Source solutions. I just wanted to find out if I was missing anything. To my amazement, I found there was software available to do practically anything. I started out with OpenOffice.org. This package is a complete replacement for M$ Office. It works fantastic. That got me looking into other solutions.

Of course, this put me on to Linux. And that's what this blog is about. I want to document for my own use just what I'm doing. What I'm learning, and what I want to learn. If it helps others out, great, but the others need to keep in mind that this is for ME, I won't be updating this on a set schedule, I might do it every 2 weeks, I might do multiple updates some days. You never can tell.

These are the things that I need to start with.

My current set up.
My distros and where I got them.
Which distros I've loaded and what do I think about them.
Which ones do I want to try.
What problems have I run into.

That's it for now.