{"id":1707,"date":"2012-04-05T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tostevin.net\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2012-04-05T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:00:06","slug":"crossing-the-rubicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Rubicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:100%;height:100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1711\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?attachment_id=1711\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linux-penguin-125x150.png\" data-orig-size=\"125,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"linux-penguin-125&#215;150\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linux-penguin-125x150.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linux-penguin-125x150.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linux-penguin-125x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"linux-penguin-125x150\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1711\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve crossed the last hurdle into the state of &#8220;Geekdom&#8221; &#8230; Linux.<\/p>\n<p>I had an old laptop that was running glacially slow with Windows XP .. so I installed Linux Ubunto 11.10 on it &#8230; BINGO .. it runs even quicker now than when XP was on the the new machine.<\/p>\n<p>Have to say &#8230; I&#8217;m lovin&#8217; it !!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to diving into all that is Linux and learning about this fab OS ! &nbsp;&nbsp; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1714\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?attachment_id=1714\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"u1110desktop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"u1110desktop\" width=\"512\" height=\"383\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop.jpg 640w, https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/u1110desktop-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve crossed the last hurdle into the state of &#8220;Geekdom&#8221; &#8230; Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[34,16],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Fp9-rx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}