Intro

I´ve found my way back to Linux after a long time away. A lot has changed, and I was never what you´d call a ¨power user¨ to begin with, so there´s a lot to learn. I thought I´d keep a blog to document things I find as I go along.

This isn´t going to be any kind of user guide, although I do sort of hope that any solutions to problems that I find will appear in a Google search for someone else having that problem. Basically I´m interested in trying to give even a little bit back to the Free Software/Open Source world that has given me so much.

I start this blog with Kubuntu already installed on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. I have also used the repository at ppa.launchpad.net to install experimental debs of KDE4.2. So far, so good.

Next up...well, my blogging has always been a bit lackadaisical, so it could be one of two things, depending on which one I get around to first: documenting how I set my laptop´s touchpad how I wanted it, or anything I find on figuring out why my apostrophe key seems to be behaving strangely.

Some people might find such quirks annoying. I find them to be an interesting problem, and a convenient excuse to peak under the hood. I am genuinely interested in learning how things like HAL and D-BUS actually work.