… The Author

My name is Adam Stovicek, and I’m an ex-Windows users.

At the end of 2006, I felt that my addiction to the Windows lifestyle had gone on long enough. I began to re-evaluate the need for Mircosoft at a profound level. Common applications had already been replaced with open-source, or shareware, counterparts. Internet Explorer and Outlook was always replaced with Firefox and Thunderbird. VLC took the place of Windows Media Player long ago. OpenOffice.org was invariably installed in place of Microsoft Office. I had gotten to the point where the only Microsoft product I was really using on a day-to-day basis was the Windows operating system. How much harder could it be to just replace that?

While Microsoft was getting ready to introduce Vista to the world, I was introducing myself to Linux. As luck would have it, I had a spare computer in which I could fail miserably at installing various Linux distributions until I settled with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. I tried to incorporate as much of my daily computing tasks with Ubuntu until I got to the point where I was rarely using Windows at all. I knew I had overcome my Windows addiction when I realized that I hadn’t even turned on my Windows machine for an entire month.

Now the only Windows installation I currently have is a stripped down Vista partition on my laptop when I feel like playing some of the games I own. My little network consists of four laptops, a desktop, and a server, all of which are in some various state of Ubuntu deployment.

… RebelZero.com

This site came about as a way to relieve my personal blog of its growing collection of Linux/Ubuntu related posts. Most of the visitors to my personal blog are close friends and family members who don’t share my same level of interest in computers. Rather than bore them with content that doesn’t interest them, I moved it to a new location.

As my experience with Linux continued to grow, so did my knowledge of its failures. I wanted someplace where I could share my findings with others while at the same time keep a record I could refer back to when a solution was needed.

The name for RebelZero.com came from nowhere, actually. I keep a small list of urls that amuse me and RebelZero.com had a nice ring to it, so I registered it. I use it here in the context that I was a rebel to the Windows norm and it cost me zero dollars to succeed.

… Comments

Comments are always held for moderation before being published. They are approved as long as they pertain to the subject matter. Any questionable links to other websites are deleted.

… Advertisements

I know there are some who think they’re the scum of the Internet. I agree with you, but I would like to monetize the site to at least help pay for the hosting cost. And so far, it isn’t. I promise to keep the number of ads to a minimum. For now, I’m using Google Adsense and AdBrite, both of which will be swapped out on occasion to devote space to something more important like Ubuntu release announcements.

… License

As stated at the bottom of every page, www.RebelZero.com by Adam Stovicek is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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