On Friday 03 March 2006 21:55, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
I touched a Windows computer for the first time in the year 2000, when I was in the 9th standard.. I could barely use the mouse. Before that, in the 7th standard, I had used some weird thing called Logo or something. Anyway. So, my first experience with Windows was in a cyber cafe. I was there to get a 'feel' of the internet.
In 2003. I was studying in VESP, Chembur. I had mastered Dreamweaver and stuff. I had decent knowledge of Windows. I was a semi-geek. I had heard the word Linux mentioned somewhere and I had seen lilo on one of the lab computers showing off the words linux and windows.
I got my first computer 2003. I installed RH9 on it along with Windows 98 and XP. I didn't know what to do with Gnome, but I liked KDE back then. But I couldn't get stuff like internal modem working. RH9 didn't last too long on my computer, but back then, I loved Windows XP.
The following year, I quit college in my 3rd (and final) year. There were quite a few personal problems. That's when I started using Linux, in March 2004, out of curiosity. I think I tried SuSE 9.1 back then, along with Mandrake. I liked SuSE, but I loved Linux in general. It was something new, something different and something to actually learn.
By the end of 2004, I had Gentoo 2004.3 installed on my computer. Gentoo taught me quite a bit actually. But then for some reason that I don't remember, I stopped using Linux for a few months in 2005. Then, with 2005.1, I was back to Gentoo and since then I've been on Linux.
In the meanwhile, I haven't gone back to college. People tell me that I should complete my 3rd year because right now, my qualification is just SSC. I don't think I don't want to complete college, because I'd rather be doing Linux.
So what do I plan to do? Well, I'd want to contribute in whatever way that I can. I'd want to learn this thing and become the absolute master. I don't want a job though. I want to teach. I want to spread Linux. I'm good at teaching. That'll be my career. I don't care about getting paid Rs. 50,000 a month. Rs. 10,000 would suffice me, because my needs are minimalistic. I'd want to be able to pay off my bills, buy myself decent clothes and food, pay for my internet connection and upgrade my computer from time to time. I'll try to save some money to buy music and books from time to time. I would love that to be my life!
Anyway, I don't know why I wrote all this. I hope you don't feel that you've wasted your valuable time reading this. If people actually do read the whole thing, I expect them to not tell me that I'm stupid or idiotic, because firstly, I know what I'm doing and secondly, I wouldn't care about what people would say.
So anyway, THAT's why I'm here.
Bravo! Very well written. I too love teaching. I used to teach C / C++ but the students should be interested :(