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New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

Post by DarkDaedelus »

Hello there,

I have been reading up on this forum quite often before but never joined. I'm in IT and not very afraid of using Linux, I have used/played with quite a few linux flavors before and liked Mint the most til now. I have worked with:
  • - IPCop (internship, doens't really count)
    - Smoothwall (internship + self, doesn't really count)
    - CentOS (school)
    - Debian (school)
    - OpenSuse
    - Backtrack (self)
    - Kali (self)
    - Ubuntu+Ubuntu Server(self)
    - Xubuntu
    - Mint13 (self)
During this I ran into quite a few things that I couldn't do or solve, or were just plain broken. I recently found out Mint had an update since I last checked it out, so I wanted to give that shot. I like to think I only have little knowledge on Linux so far. True, I can get around, but have to look up quite a few things. But I really wish to kick that up a few notches. I have been kind of attracted to Linux since the age of well, 15 or 16. Actually, more since I got into contact with it for the first time. I have tried a few distros when I was a lot younger (stuff from the list), so at that time I couldn't do much with it/them (like check an ip address, or update stuff).

Needless to say, I've grown quite a bit in that. I have had Mint 13 running on my laptop before, but killed it with a skype-installation-gone-wrong and went and tried something new. I've had a few Backtrack Live dvd's and had Kali installed to try a few security matters I really wanted to test (WEP and such), since it helps me understand the security part of IT a lot better. So here I am, Mint17.1 on an old beaten up laptop, but with a lot of interest of making this actually work. And who know's, maybe I can switch to Linux "permanently".
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Re: New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

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Welcome aboard, DarkDaedelus!
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Re: New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

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Welcome to the Mint family forums

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Re: New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

Post by vrkalak »

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:mrgreen: ..:: Welcome to LinuxMint ::.. :mrgreen:

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Linux Alternative to Windows > http://www.linuxalt.com/
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Re: New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

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Welcome to the Linux Mint forum. :D
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Re: New to Mint, armed with an old banged up Macbook

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Thank you :D
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