On 01/08/13 11:53, Bob Moss wrote:
Hi everyone,
Seeing as the welcome email for this mailing list suggest I send something to this effect, I thought I'd introduce myself as a new member!
Welcome to the list. ITYF it friendly and informative.
==This LUG== The reason I'm interested in this LUG is because I'm moving to Ipswich in the last week of August 2013. This is to start a new job with BT on their graduate scheme as a software engineer (I've no idea what I'm working on yet!). I don't know anyone in the area, but I think it'd be cool to meet people with similar interests. :)
Ah, oh...
I've a bone to pick with BT - but you're far enough away from Bunwell to just snigger...
==Linux Stuff== My interest in Linux originally started back in 2005 with live copies of Mandriva and Ubuntu (which I ran on my parents' computer to scare the crap out of them!). In 2007 however my parents bought me my first new laptop (512MB RAM) for college, but it came with Vista Home Basic pre-installed ...this didn't run
Didn't it? How strange...
I bought this little pre-loved MSi U-100 cheaper because I didn't want Windows on it. Has Debian and Mint installed ATM
well. The first distribution I ever committed to HDD was Ubuntu 7.07 "Feisty Fawn", which I dual-booted with Windows XP.
Mine was Lasermoon's Linux FT, dual-booted with Win 3.11 - FT was bought-out and SuSE developed from it.
Then an hiatus, and Debian by itself in a HDD in one tray, Win 2000 in another and Win 98 2nd Ed in a third
Since then I've learned more about the philosophy behind open source and free software and try to use FOSS wherever I can. I also wandered around FOSDEM in 2012 (albeit with quite a hangover from the night before!).
Ah. You ought to be nearer Norwich - the pub we meet in is also the Chalk Hill Brewery, so that's a challenge for you.
(Crool nurse has just had to have three attempts at get any blood out of me today - don't they realise I'm running on empty?)
Oh, BTW, your post arrived 4th - 5th Aug datestamped 1st Aug: your pooter seems to be a few days in arrears or the item has been held for authentication/moderation, perhaps.
Some of you may recognise my name. This is because aged 17 this happened: http://www.tuxradar.com/files/LXF113.roundtab.pdf. A few months later in March 2009 I wrote my first articles for Linux Format magazine. Apparently they liked me, so I was invited back to work at LXF towers the same summer, and then wrote articles as a freelancer from September 2009-November 2011 while doing my Computer Science degree.
I've tried a range of different distros (and even played around with Linux From Scratch) but I'm very much a Fedora user when I need to actually get things done! I'm currently teaching myself Python (I know it's a little overdue!) and am presently pondering whether to get a Raspberry Pi, Ouya or both!
Mmmmm! Pi!
One day I shall get round to acquiring one - assuming today's procedure is a success...