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greetings and welcome to another
thrilling episode of Veronica explains
I'm Veronica and today I'd like to do an
off-the-cuff episode about how I got
started with Linux and I want to explore
the very first Dro I ever tried which I
believe was Ubuntu Wy warthog I should
mention really quick as I said this is
an offthe cuff episode which in my
language means I didn't script it
beforehand and the reason I haven't
scripted this episode beforehand is
because I've been very busy I've been
working on getting a virtualization
server set up for my next big video that
I'm planning virtualization qemu KVM and
networking which is going to be a very
exciting episode at least I think it's
exciting I've also been very hard at
work on getting a web store set up for
the channel if I have the website done
by the time this video goes live I'll
put the link
here and if I don't have the website
done that'll be really funny okay I
shouldn't start everything with okay I
got started with Linux back in
2005 at the time I was really into this
little social network that was popular
with kids my age called
Myspace and there was was some sort of
plug-in and I don't remember the
specific details that let me reply with
canned replies to people's messages it
only worked on this browser called
Firefox I don't know if you've heard of
it I downloaded it on my computer at the
time which was some sort of old e
machines I I don't even remember what
the thing broke
and I I got Firefox set up and it it was
kind of amazing I expected it to go a
little bit better than my experience
with Internet Explorer at the time
because I'd been a Netscape person um as
a lot of us were which was the style at
the time suddenly I found myself
enthralled with this browser that had
this free and opsource
license which was something I wasn't
sure what that meant but I knew I wanted
to know more so I started looking into
it and I started digging into it and I
discovered there are people who make
entire operating systems with a free and
open- Source license the first one that
I saw was called Linux um and the most
popular Linux at the time that everybody
was talking about was called Ubuntu and
I didn't know anything about it but it
was really exciting so I downloaded it I
burned it to a CD which was a thing we
did at the time I got it all set I think
I light scribed the CD too with the logo
because I was a nerd I got it all set up
and the thing was amazing I absolutely
fell in love with Linux at that point it
was that classic gnome desktop I think
there was brown everywhere and I I just
loved it and I ordered stickers and I I
just fell for Linux and I really never
looked back then around 2007 I bought a
Mac this Mac to be
specific this is a 2007 MacBook not the
pro just the
MacBook and this was my go-to computer
and I loved it I mean the thing felt
Hefty had an amazing keyboard all the io
you could imagine at the time these
things these early Intel Max you could
install Linux on it with relative ease
and that's exactly what I did I ran this
Intel Mac with Ubuntu on it for jeez
through the unity years I think I was
still using that Mac in 2014 2015 I mean
that's a pretty good lifespan that's
eight years and I ended up replacing it
with an HP which you know I promptly
installed Ubuntu on or Arch um one of
the two if you want to see another video
where I do something cool with this
MacBook leave a comment but for now
let's check out wardy warthog and see
how it looks today
so to get started with Wy warthog you
have to first find Wy warthog easy place
to find that is old Dash releases.
ubuntu.com and let's go ahead and
download
it and then we're going to md5
sum that warty wart hog ISO now I am
doing the i386 because that's what I
used on my first
computer and I see it ends in 85 EO
let's just compare that okay let's
compare these md5 sums it looks good
always check your md5 sums kids or sha
sums
now so here I am in virtual machine
manager or vert manager for short if you
want to know more about vert manager I
did a video and I'll put a card wherever
cards go so vert manager is a fantastic
graphical tool that you can use to
manage your virtual machines in this
case I'm going to start up a new virtual
machine and I know it's local installed
cuz I already downloaded it we're going
to browse to the downloads folder which
I have right
here and we're going to choose that
volume it automatically picked that it's
ub2 410 which is
nice uh let's give it a little bit more
let's give it
2048 that's probably close to what I had
when I maxed out that e
machines that's fine
I have a feeling I'm going to want to
customize this to make it a32 bit so
let's do that before we actually
install
CPU we do not want to copy the
host C 32 that should be
fine okay and then let's begin the
installation let's see if that
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worked I love it
okay now I'm going to see if I can
change the settings in OBS so give me
just one
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second all right so now hopefully that's
recording correctly let's go ahead and
press enter let's try booting
it look at this this is beautiful I
remember this see you'd think this looks
bad as an installer like oh look at how
old this looks you got to remember at
the time I think Windows XP installed
much the same
way United States is me American
English it's going much faster than mine
did back then I think auntu is a fine
name yep just do the entire
disc it didn't ask me a lot of questions
it's kind of nice jeez this is fast
oh first stage of the installation is
complete oh that's
fun okay I might have to remove the
installation media we'll see normally I
would have done that with a
CD Colonel
2.6.8 I love this welcome to your new
Ubuntu system this program will now walk
you through the process of setting up
your newly installed
system select my time zone I'm going to
say send control cuz it's true enter
full name
Veronica do I want to download software
from the internet let's do it let's see
if it
breaks it's going kind of
slow okay for the X Windows
system yeah vas is probably
fine I mean so far it looks really good
I often when I'm installing Ubuntu it's
the Ubuntu Server installer and this
isn't much different it has fewer
options but it isn't much of a different
situation than it used to be you know
what I should go grab my BPP it
obligatory BPP it
time twist it twist it pull it twist it
pop it twist it pop it twist it
1920 by 1440 is a strange choice I don't
want to do
that you know what let's stick with 1024
by 768 because that's definitely what I
was using back
then pop it bop it pull it twist it o
it's done twist it just a little bit of
Bop It time don't mind me okay it says I
may now log in
see if it
works oh I missed this okay let's see if
I can resize the display real
quick it's a Bo to Wy wart hog I think
this is 410 yep it's 410 ah
wonder if the sound will
work it's so
Brown I love how Brown it
is oh it's so
pretty
H oh my goodness I love it so
much okay I have a soft spot for gome
too I'm not going to lie I did a video
where I talked about ubun tum mate it
was live video it was fun car s i I just
I love this layout you know honestly if
if somebody figured out a way to work
tiling into mate I might never leave
okay we've now installed Ubuntu Wy wart
hog but what can we do with it let's
take a look we've got some applications
including an archive manager it's useful
character
map wonder what fonts this thing shipped
with this shipped with a good amount of
fonts
I remember being really confused because
I didn't see
Ariel I remember wondering how will
websites work if it doesn't have aerial
and times and you know obviously
websites worked okay games it's got
solitire ax
Blackjack five or more four in a row
free
sale G Tetra gometric
it's the tetris
clone ah
this is much snappier than it was on my
computer there's no audio though I
wonder if I can get sound working let's
see I remember it had a a reasonable
nibbles okay we got to figure out the
sound nope it's not happy with me okay
think I need to figure out the sound
in the virtual machine so did it have a
sound
device I'd like to be able to hear some
of these sweet desktop
sounds oh jeez I just saw a thing about
run levels and had a
flashback I should have done a full and
complete
shutdown yeah I don't hear
anything sound
maybe that was sound okay I think we're
in business I'm going to turn it
up God these
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sounds that wasn't
expected um what
happened that was
weird yeah let's try opening
up nibbles again enable sounds there we
go doesn't look like it
worked I mean Hardware was
a it wasn't as easy as it is
now let's see how the internet's
working welcome to Ubuntu Linux 410 the
Wy warthog
release Ubuntu will always be free of
charge and there is no extra fee for the
Enterprise Edition it's like a dig at
somebody
huh Firefox and ubun linux.org cannot
communicate securely because they have
no common encryption algorithms I have a
feeling we're going to run into SSL
issues why select all alt
a I don't think it was like that before
if it was I found a way to fix it I'm
guessing this does not work nope we're
going to run into that SSL
issue I am reasonably certain modern web
is not going to function
not at least without some extra work
that I don't want to do right now
because I just
don't comes with a floppy form
matter would you look at all this
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Brown let's see what other game was
there it's got Isle Rod is Rod hasn't
changed hardly at
all o it's exciting themes let's see
what themes we had available there's the
human theme which I like still think
this is pretty this was apparently the
gnome default theme you know change is
pretty Snappy I don't remember it
changing this quick this theme does not
suggest any particular font or
background it's nice of
them let's look at Evolution I mean
Evolution's not going to do anything
but see if it lets me do this server
type none
ah you know Evolution hasn't changed
much this is still pretty much what it
looks like which is good I mean you want
that uh consistency in something like
email I mean Outlook if you think about
how Outlook has changed since 2004
Evolution stayed pretty consistent which
is nice leave a comment if you want me
to do a video on Evolution because it's
definitely one of my favorite Linux
email clients let's see what version of
it's 2.0 oh this was before they had
single Window mode oh boy um you got the
multiple
windows oop the text editor pops out
okay and now here's where you change it
yeah this is a lot of
room has come a long way since then
oh I grabbed the wrong layer it's had a
feature for palmos devices I never had a
Palm Pilot back then I wonder how that
turned out you know I used used to use
was Rockbox on my iPod which was
extremely helpful ooh
synaptic email there was
Thunderbird that was an option maybe I
have to let's see if I can pull up a
terminal oh I can't pull it up that way
I'm used popos with the fancy Super T to
open up the
terminal all right let's dig into a
terminal ah it's very
bright okay pseudo app something oop it
didn't have app it was app C
shoot
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nope yeah I wonder if they've taken the
old repos
offline we've got to talk about open
Office I used
openoffice.org for everything in college
I used it for papers I used it for
budget buting I used it for charts and
graphs and databases and pretty much
anything you could use Microsoft Office
for I did it in Libra office this was
for the most part in the days before
Google Docs so this is what we had and
honestly it was pretty sweet I still use
Libra office today and I try to stay
away from Google Docs whenever possible
because that's just who I am as a
person this takes me back it very much
reminds me of Microsoft Works which was
the text editor I used on my aptiva
growing
up let's make this a
header that's not an option let's make
it really
big palatino this is so
nerdy you know one thing I don't miss is
that I don't have to do anything with
ndis wrapper
um I remember getting so lost on ndis
wrapper with my MacBook um there was
some kind of issue with the Wi-Fi driver
working correctly which as a college
student was kind of a big deal getting
ndis rapper going on my MacBook was a
challenge I did it and it worked once I
got it working but holy cow was that
ever just a nightmare and I'm so glad we
don't have to deal with that anymore in
Linux well one thing I think we're
seeing is you know there's honestly just
not much you can do with Hoon to Wy
anymore but it was all there and
honestly Linux has only grown since 2004
2005 it's only gotten better what used
to be a really manual process of editing
and manipulation and tweaking things has
just become so much easier to work with
if you think about how different it is
from then versus now in terms of how we
get software before we
had tools like synaptic which I like I
like this tool don't get me wrong but
it's not exactly the most userfriendly
thing in the world is it it's no pop
shop it's no gnome software center it's
no plasma discover this was what we had
or it was the command line and we took
it it was fine but it's so much better
now yeah if this is your opinion on what
Linux looks like you need to to check
out a more modern drro you know it's
funny I started this video thinking I
was going to look back on this and say
it hasn't changed
much but you know
honestly it really has it was good but
honestly Linux has gotten so much better
that's that's what I'm seeing here as
I'm as I'm playing with this for the
first time in years there was just so
much that used to be difficult about
working with aist like this um the
package manager which I've already
talked about you know beyond that just
setting up devices and and and working
with drivers and figuring out stuff I
mean it's it's it is honestly become so
much better than it used to be I think
this is one of the best things about
Linux is that you know as I'm kind of
reminded here Linux has been good for a
really long time but it's only getting
better as we go our games have gotten
better that are shipped with it our
Graphics software can do so much more
than it used to our desktop publishing
tools are so much more thorough than
they used to be back in 2004 2005 we
have gotten so much better at
communicating with end users about
making the Linux desktop discoverable
and easy to
use and that's incredible it just really
is how much progress we've made since
then I'm I love seeing this but to be
honest I love seeing what we've done
since a lot
more you know what I'm struck with is
that since
2005 Linux on the desktop has gotten so
much better than it used to be and I
don't know why that would surprise me I
mean Linux is awesome and so are you one
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