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I have been waiting for a long time to write this blog ,
“how i forgot that favourite command”, most of us (desktop users) have used the most . did u guess it !

yes its ctrl+alt+del.

Ever since i saw that pc in the internet kiosk (5 yrs before, when i was in college ), COMPUTER became my passion and i never thought that i will start my carreer with it.After my graduation , somehow i managed to get a personal computer and installed Windows 98 . Since that day i have been using MS Windows 98 and some days later Windows XP.

All these years i was hearing about the other OS which is free to use , virus free, spyware free, yes the Linux OS .First i was afraid to try it , thinking that it might not support the hardware, might corrupt my harddisk and all files would be lost.After a word from my friend, that Linux is completely harmless , i decided to give a try.

First i started with Fedora Core , then Suse and finally ended with Kubuntu .
(Thats a 8 months story how i ended up with Kubuntu) …

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