Welcome!

You’ve stumbled across my blog site. I mostly set this up as a means of collating all my Ubuntu related stuff, but I figured I’d open it up everyone to get the full benefit of.

As you have probably figured by now, I’m a bit of an Ubuntu Linux affecionado. I find it to be an fascinatingly easy to use distribution (if a little on the fat side) but has made the task of switching over to Linux and switching others over significantly easier than a few years ago.

Like most others, I spent a considerable time in Windows-land, though I always did appreciate the benefit Linux brought in the Server department and used it extensively as a server-only product. It was only in late 2007 that I finally made the switch to Linux full-time on the desktop after I saw how Ubuntu was moving along. Prior to that I was using Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora.

I run Ubuntu on almost everything at home, including the very server you are reading this page from. I have an EeePC 701 that runs Ubuntu, an old Armada 1700 that runs Arch Linux and my primary desktop PC also runs Ubuntu. I do have Windows dual-booted on my desktop as well as VM’ed via Virtualbox, but the former is just for Windows games that don’t run too well under Wine (yet) and the latter I use for Lotus Notes development for work. Finally, my MythTV media centre server runs Ubuntu (but not Mythbuntu) with the MythTV packages installed on top of it.

My general goal with this site is to share the knowledge I’ve gained through my day to day use of Linux in general and to dispel the myth that Linux is difficult to use compared to Windows. To that end, I try and present things as step-by-step as possible so that it should be near-impossible to make a mistake. I have to admit that I honestly and truly find Linux to be so much easier to setup and configure than a comparable Windows PC, and while I don’t evangelise Linux in general, I have found it incredibly easy to convert Windows users over to Linux simply through their observations of my own experiences – they want a piece of the action!

You can find me making appearances on forums such as Ubuntu Forums, Overclockers Australia and Whirlpool under the handle “HyRax” or “HyRax1″. Say “hi” if you bump into me.