wiedxma k wrote: __________________________________________________________________ Apologies if I've posted this already - found lurking in 'drafts'. __________________________________________________________________
Hi everyone, I joined the mailing list yesterday and I thought I would introduce myself.
Hi, Krystyna
I am a woman.
Nobody's perfect
And I work and live in Ipswich.
Ditto
I’ve been interested in GNU/Linux since 2002/2003.
Ah, we're on less contentious ground now.
My interest started with Laseermoon's FT, which I used at work. Liking it better than the Win 3.11 I was using at the time, I acquired the discs and nearly got to grips with the distro, but soon defected to Debian. I still have the FT CDs if anyone wants to play with the distro. (Achtung! Lasermoon was taken over by the developers of SuSE, and SuSE was based on FT - I am informed,)
The first distro I saw and got installed on my HP nx9020 laptop was Slackware. Someone told me ‘if you learn Slackware, you will be fine with any distro”, so I gave it a go.
I have no experience of Slackware, but the same is said of Debian, probably with better reason.
I used to work on Windows 98, Windows XP and HP, HP-UX.
I used to work in CP/M until I wanted to play with graphics, when an IBM compatible (386 SX)was put together for me. The bloke wot done it like, insisted that I would *need* Windows, so, much against my gut feeling (prejudice?) I let him sell me Win 3.0 as well as DOS 5.
I only ever used Windows for Paintbrush, and then only until I found a much better program that ran in DOS. Blowed if I can unforget what it was called...
Later, a 486 DX4-100 was bought, Win 98 installed in one tray, and FT was installed in another. Our ISP hosted a Debian mirror, so I added that to the quiver, but only having two trays for the caddy, dispensed with the FT, temporarily, I told myself.
There is nothing quite so permanent as the temporary...
Later went on to use Win 2000 Pro instead of the (upgraded) Win 98 SE.
Fairly recently bought an Asus Eee on which was Tellytubbies Linux (I think it prefers to be called XanDROSS) and a refurbished old Acer laptop, on which was XP Home. HDD partitioned, an up-to-date Debian (Squeeze) went on, but as I can't do without Irfanview, and I dislike the Gimp with a passion, I have added a few Windozy graphics programs. With what is in Squeeze and in the XP partition I can do most of what I want.
I say 'most' - one day, when the getting-home-afterwards problem is solved, what isn't covered by 'most' will find its way to the Coach and Horses...
The job I do now has nothing to do with Linux or computers. I neither am IT professional nor a geek. (OK, maybe a very little one:))
That's OK then. (Beware of Geeks bearing gifts)
Today I use Ubuntu on my old HP nx9020 and Windows 7 on my brand new, shiny, lovely ThinkPad T420s. It’s just a few weeks old baby and the only reason it’s got Windows 7 on board is that I was curious how it looks and feels like and if it’s any better than XP. I’m not impressed. Actually, it annoys me more and more every day. So, the time to install some nice and working OS is coming.
I am given to understand that 7 isn't bad. Howsomedever, the amount I use Windows wouldn't justify the outlay (I think I used it once last week for batch-resizing some jpegs).
I like reading books,
Ditto
walking,
Ditto
chatting on IRC
Never tried it, and when working, my main means of connection, an allegedly 3G mobile dongle, wouldn't allow it on the weak GPRS signal here. My landline is still broken.
and learning new things.
One's never too old. I think I learnt something a few days ago, but for the life of me, I can't remember what.
Matron!
I’m not a very talkative person (as for a woman!) so you may see me hanging quietly at #ALUG quite often.
<lost for words>
So, this is me. And I look forward to chatting to all of you ALUGers!
I won't repeat what the spellcheck suggested for 'Lasermoon's'...