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I just came across an interesting article that talks about Fedora vs. Ubuntu. It makes me remember the first time I was experiencing with different GNU/Linux distros.

Back in the summer of 2009, I was frustrated with the slowness of Windows Vista. I was searching for the solution on how to fix this. Unintentionally, I watched a film from Discovery that talked about the history of the Internet. From the film, I learned that Bill Gates illegally avoided the competition between Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and other illegal activities that Bill Gates did to avoid competition, as well as to avoid being sued. I thought that it’s time to switch the operating system.

Initially I was planning to switch to Mac. Because of the high price of the Macbook and Mac OS X only woks on the Apple products (I tried the Hackintosh hack and my laptop doesn’t support it), I downloaded two of the main GNU/Linux dstros, burned them to CDs, and tried them out. First I tried Ubuntu. I booted the OS with live CD many times and it kept go into the terminal. I looked for the problem online and found out that it’s the ISO problem. At that time, I didn’t have enough connection speed to re-download the ISO, so I continued to try Fedora live CD. It booted successfully. After playing around inside the live CD, I decided to install it. The installation process was very easy,. I chose to use the whole hard drive and removed Vista. The installation took about 10 minutes. After the installation, I could easily install my preferred web development tools right from its repositories, Netbeans, Apache, and PHP & MySQL. Later I upgraded to Fedora 12 when it came out.

During my later usage of GNU/Linux, I involved with Open Source movement to promote software freedom and fight against proprietary software. It enabled me to learn more about the bad side of proprietary software, especially Microsoft.

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