If you're looking for Ubuntu tutorials and other stories with a Pinoy touch, head over to Ubuntu Living. Dominique tells his story:

A little story about how I got started with Ubuntu.

Three years ago, I was travelling in Manila and the SuSE installation on my Thinkpad R50e flaked out on me. Far away from my installation CDs, what could I do? Fortunately, my friend Migs had just given me his spare media kit of Ubuntu 5.04.

I shrugged. "Okay, I'm an old hand at Linux, and I really need to get my Thinkpad running. How hard can it be?"

Answer: not hard at all. In fact, it was absolutely easy.

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