Mesmerized by UBUNTU !!!!!

Hi friends,
I would like to share my experience working in LINUX platforms for the 1st time ever.I believe this post is just a beginning to discover something useful to others when they really love to start working in LINUX.Before getting started off with UBUNTU a week ago, I had an assumption surrounded by an illusion in my mind that nothing is better than windows OS because of the reason may be the addiction I had(have) on windows and windows still rocks no doubt in that.I should accept that this assumption was really due to unawareness about other platforms.

An interest and fascination towards LINUX began when my friend Nandakumar told me about participating in a open-source application development projects conducted by web search giant.To be frank I don't know anything about open-source applications but would be interested in learning new things.I do hope it will give you an uniqueness among your college friends or company colleagues due to simple reason that its more important to be a student in this game played by human competitors called LEARNING and learning never ends and anything learnt never be considered as a waste.When I saw that corresponding site to know about the tools and languages required for the open-source application Oh My GOD!! It was a kind of shock that I didn't even come across those names and that ignorance hit me very hard in self-realizing the bitter fact that I had done nothing to update myself technically in these many years of college life.
As a result of this unconsciousness,got some useful docs based on basic open-source programming from my friend Sornakumar who knows a lot about LINUX particularly UBUNTU.Nothing can be achieved in over-night but I believe the steps to achievement is directly proportional to the precious time spent beneficially.

I hope I will post regular informative stuff about LINUX programming :-)