About this blog

My Linux journey began in 2004, when a friend of mine showed me a newly installed command line version of Ubuntu 4.

I was amazed by the size of the installation, the speed and the apparent "simplicity". But mostly I was amazed by the CLI (command line) applications, like irssi and teamspeak server. At that time, the Linux world didn't have that many applications and many of them required compilation under specific Linux distributions and dependencies. I remember searching through Ubuntu repositories and installing all the applications that seemed interesting.

Because I wanted a desktop environment and Linux desktops had fewer (apparent) apps than Windows and I was lacking a Linux basic knowledge, it took years before I really got into the Linux world.

Over the years I tried many Linux distribution flavours, like Knoppix, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Manjaro and Raspbian OS. There isn't one that I like most. At this moment, I just know more about Debian based Linux distributions, but I'm always learning.

Now, I created this blog to server me as notepad, were otherwise all the notes about specific applications/installations/configurations are scattered throughout many machines and various external drives. It drives me nuts every time to search for that specific task that I know I managed best a few months ago.

This blog might be beneficial to others, as I previously had a blogpost.com blog that got deleted by Google automated system for an unknown reason, that had quite a few visitors over time.