I thought I would start my blogs with my personal Linux history. I started my computer hobby around 1983, even before that if you count digital electronics, but that is another story.
My first experience with linux was with Red Hat 6. I never did very much with it because I couldn't get many drivers for my hardware back then. Then around 2003 with the release of FedoraCore 1 I thought I would try linux again. While not as easy as today I was pleasantly suprised to find that I could get all my hardware working, even my tv card. The first several months I did a little distro hopping to find one that fit my needs. I tried Fedora , Ubuntu, Source Mage and finally, another source code based distro called Gentoo. I finally settled on Gentoo as my main distribution, although I kept an Ubuntu partition on my hard drive also. That was 2004 and I was finally windows free. Gentoo has worked out well for me, however it has had its rough spots but they are generally easier to troubleshoot and fix compared to the problems I have had with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is great for an easy install and to quickly try out various software, but because its a binary distro its quite a bit harder to customize to my liking.
If your just getting started with Linux its a good idea to make a small partition for your operating systems and use the rest for a data partition. That way its much easier to upgrade and backup your computer.
Linux has come a long way since I first tried Red Hat. There are many distributions out there now so it should be easy to find one that suits your needs with a little research at www.distrowatch.com or similar site.
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