I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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I know with using the Gimp the first thing that messed me up was the "Save" vs "Export" process. The Fedora Magazine link Máirín Duffy included goes over it clearly
A friend of mine kept telling me about it and I eventually installed Red Hat 8.0 because that is what my friend was using and I figured I was going to bug the heck out of him with questions so I best use something he's familiar with.
At the time my Windows computer was getting long in the tooth and Apples were out of my price range so figured Linux may just save me and give me something good to use.