On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:01:01PM +0000, main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:

We welcome new members and we'd especially like you to send a short description of why you're interested in Linux to the mailing list.

Hello!

I was invited to this evening's Ely social in The Fountain, but without enough warning! So here I am at home *clickerty-click* subscribing to the mailing lists.

I have been using Linux since 1993 when I discovered I could re- partition my university's public PCs and dual boot between DOS and a unix. SLS Linux needed quite a few floppies! I now run Debian on half my PCs, and I gave up dual booting because I like to be able to run both Linux apps and Win32 apps at the same time. Maybe I'll try one of those emulator-y things like VMWare one day.

I like using Linux because I feel I have much more control over my computers. I can choose to share files and other resources, and I can choose not to.

And its free! If only I had a bit more free time to take advantage of the free speech aspect of Linux ...

Tim.