Selfie, felfie and the panoramic view.

Food for thought,  as time marches on and the world continues to change we document our lives with pictures.  Selfies saying here I am do you see me? Felfies show the love of our family and friends.  We continue surveying the landscape,  documenting our meals, and recording the sunset.  The days we live are the days that no other generation has been able to capture so vastly as ours with a camera. 
One day when tomorrow looks back these selfies will be a story that humanity reads and reflects upon.

I am John Thomas Dougan

I am John Thomas Dougan.


      So this blog may sound a little self-centric, but I want to share my interests with others so hopefully this can be a fun trip for those who want to follow.

So I want to start out with saying I have a favorite hobby and that would be Linux.

     What is Linux? Well Linux is probably one of the hardcore computer operating systems out there.

Hardcore?  YES, HARDCORE.  

     With millions of users and an undocumented more Linux is has a fan base.  
A few things to start with, Linux is usually used to refer to an entire operating system when it is actually a kernel.  Additional software added to the kernel is what really makes an operating system.  For example if a car were a Linux operating system the kernel would be the engine and the rest of the car with all of its bells and whistles would be the software.  Together they make an operating system.  

      Now let's talk about that a bit deeper.  If you ask someone if they run Linux you will usually get a yes, but a yes doesn't tell you which operating system they are running.  Why?  Remember the software plus the kernel makes the car?  Well some cars use the same engine but different parts and are different cars.  So.... there are different Linux operating systems that use different parts, these are called distributions or distros for short.

      So this is where the many different distros come in.  I use Ubuntu.  Ubuntu is one of the most popular distros and has many distros that are based upon it.

why does all this matter?

Because this guy->

      Well actually no, even though fan-boys like to say there are only two camps the MicroSoft-Windows users and Apple users....

there are actually more.  So let's ignore these two idiots.









Actually all this matters because of this guy, no seriously!

Linus Torvolds created the kernel kernel which hit the world in 1994.

From there millions of user and developers have helped him craft it.  

     Wait, WHAT?    ... Millions of users and developers have helped make it?   Yes, Linux and much of the software bundled with it is what is called Open-Source. Imagine you are trying to build something, but you have no idea what the materials you are working with are.  That is basically what MS-Windows is known for, but in Open-Source software you get to know how a program is built.  This in turn let's you analyze it, repair it, and adapt it for your own use and even share it.

     Many of these people are not paid and simply share the software for free.  They contribute their time and skills to build software and share.  So if you take that into consideration, Linux users are the most hardcore fan-boys out there.