Hello to all.

I'm Dave Griffiths, I'm 28 and currently living in Marham, near Kings Lynn in Norfolk. I currently use winXP on my home computer but have meddled with linux, with little or no success in the past (Redhat, Mandrake and currently Suse 7.2)

I have been onto IRC and chatted in #alug and #brits, probably upsetting a few people but learning also. I am intending to go to the Install day at UEA in june, and I'll bring along my pc if thats ok. Edward has convinced me to ditch suse and try debian, so any help on the day will be more than welcome !

Current PC spec:

Asus A7V socket A motherboard Athlon 1.2 @1.4 t-bird cpu 384mb 133 ram 17" compaq monitor 40,30,17 gig ide drives Nvidia geforce3 vid card Hercules Gametheatre XP soundcard

Suse does seem to install ok with everything but the soundcard running fine. The soundcard runs on a different driver, and the volume is so low its practically impossible to hear unless plugged into my hi-fi. The only other problems are more my doing through lack of knowledge than the software itself, unlike windows !

I normally use my pc for internet use, gaming, and home/office use with a printer, scanner and digital camera. I am looking to use linux for more of the same, but intend to start learning something useful with my pc, maybe html, perl, c++ or something else, suggestions for a newbie most welcome.

Although a total linux newbie, I started out with computers at the age of 7 with a vic-20, progressing to spectrum, atari, amiga, dx2-66 pc all the way to my present machine which i built myself. I often help others at work etc with building and upgrading their home pc's and solving the many windows problems they encounter ! I look forward to learning more in the future.

Dave Griffiths