John,

Personally I have not been to the meets, as I am fairly new to the ALUG family, but there is a very healthy following in our IRC channel. It can be found on the OFTC network, and the room is #alug. Anyone would gladly help you get connected, if needs be.

Steve

John Herd wrote: 
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 10:41 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
  
On 13 Apr 09:55, John Herd wrote:
    
Hello Alug...
      
Hi-de-ho John!

    
I didn't think that there was a Linux users group in Suffolk until I
stumbled across your web page. Hopefully the group is alive and well.
      
Well, alive, certainly...
    

Thanks for the reply Brett. Is there an active turnout of folks to meets
or is the mailing list the main outlet?

  
I see that you have meetings at the Milestone Beer House - when is your
next meet? I'm guessing the 21st from your web page.

Anyway I could ramble on forever about what I use Linux for but it boils
down to this: my missus uses Ubuntu Gutsy because she it does what she
wants it to do (and the BBC finally got a beta out the door for
iPlayer).
      
Fair play. I'm waiting for the Wii iPlayer stuff ;)
    

I think the BBC's been surprised at how popular iPlayer has been judging
by the number of complaints from ISP's about bandwidth...

  
I use Linux because it's easier to work with (haha, but seriously it's
getting easier to work with) although I hanker after games. I randomly
nuke my machine and put a new distro on there, run virtual machines
and then remember I didn't back up all my data to that spare disk
under my feet. Favourite distro: Ubuntu. Least favourite: Gentoo,
although friends of mine swear by it I swear at it.
      
I work with, play with and generally use linux rather a lot more than
windows, and have done for about 13 years... and for most of that I've
found it a lot easier to work with than a windows box... these days I
can't actually sit infront of a windows or OS X box for too long, and a
linux box that I'm going to be using often will get my favourite window
manager of the time installed fairly quickly (this is currently
"awesome", which is quite good at doing what I'd expect and has a
friendly config file to make it really do what I want!).

There's a lot of Ubuntu and Debian users on the list (I'm a Debian user,
mostly because I need parts of Debian that are only in Ubuntu's
universe/multiverse repositories quite often, and so it's much easier
just to run the distro that those parts come from and not have to worry
about the lack of security updates because they're covered in Debian :).

    

If there are any lurking Debian/Ubuntu users around please get in touch:
I'm always happy to chat, although I can't say I'm the most technical of
users out there.  I have to say that I've stuck with GNOME because it's
there.


  
Gentoo appears to be the distro of choice for people that are control
freaks but actually shouldn't be let near a compiler... Generally I have
better things to do than sit and watch my OS recompile every few days
because I can ;)

    

All the care and feeding does get in the way with the playing with the
shiny toys.

  
If there's anyone out there - please give me a shout back.
      
Shh, it's Sunday morning... less shouting.
    



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