On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:12:09 +0000 allan miller alug@sarvasiddhi.ukfsn.org wrote:

Hello

I have just subscribed to the list. My name is Allan Miller.

Welcome

I have been using Linux extensively for the past 4 years now. After trying various distributions I have settled on Slackware. Occasionally I try a new distribution but end up fairly quickly back with Slackware. I like its speed and simplicity of setting up (I used to dislike the others with everything hidden behind gui's).

Fair enough

Because I like fiddling/tuning I can quite easily get lost for hours tweaking things - a bit like a car mechanic who spends hours under the bonnet tuning etc and never takes the car out on the road. And a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Oh yes

Although 99.9% of the time I boot into Linux I still use Windows within a Vmware virtual machine as I use Coreldraw a lot and there is nothing equivalent yet under Linux.

Maybe,

It has been a bit of a solitary life as I don't know anyone else who is using Linux.

Welcome to Alug we are very friendly allthough we do have the occasional tribal split over distributions (I am biased toward the debian gang but work on redhat derivative scientific Linux). I do have a slackware colleage but he is now becoming a debian fan also so I recomend giveing it a try it is maybe a little over automated for you, though it is very productive.

Regards

Owen S

Welcome to the list Allan,

You will most likely find a like minded set of people here, although I am not personally aware of any other slack users (feel free to try and convert us)

Aren't there Linux builds of some of the Corel draw versions ? I am sure I have read about it somewhere. If not I am sure I have seen it running under wine before, that could be a whole lot easier that having to maintain a whole VM just for one application.

That said I have in the past had a hard enough job getting Corel to run properly on Windows let alone using wine :-)

I use VMware too, my study and office would be full of boxes without it (looks around to see a study full of boxes......ok my study and office would be MORE full without it)

On 2005.02.02 20:12, allan miller wrote:

I have just subscribed to the list. My name is Allan Miller. I have been using Linux extensively for the past 4 years now. After trying various distributions I have settled on Slackware. Occasionally I try a new distribution but end up fairly quickly back with Slackware. I like its speed and simplicity of setting up (I used to dislike the others with everything hidden behind gui's).

The only thing on which I can speak authoritatively and with considerable experience is old age however I have been fiddling with Linux for some years now. I like GUIs because it means that I don't have to remember command lines and parameters. My memory was never very good and it doesn't improve with age.

It has been a bit of a solitary life as I don't know anyone else who is using Linux.

Welcome to the group Allan. You now know a lot of people who use Linux.

Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

On Wednesday 02 Feb 2005 20:12, allan miller wrote:

I have just subscribed to the list. My name is Allan Miller.

Hi Allan

I still use Windows within a Vmware virtual machine as I use Coreldraw a lot and there is nothing equivalent yet under Linux.

Have you tried inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org )? Provides pretty good vector graphic editing facilities a la Corel.

Joe