Hi everyone, I joined the mailing list yesterday and I thought I would introduce myself. I am a woman. And I work and live in Ipswich. I’ve been interested in GNU/Linux since 2002/2003. 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 used to work on Windows 98, Windows XP and HP, HP-UX. 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:)) 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 like reading books, walking, chatting on IRC and learning new things. I’m not a very talkative person (as for a woman!) so you may see me hanging quietly at #ALUG quite often. So, this is me. And I look forward to chatting to all of you ALUGers! Krystyna (Medea)
Hi, welcome to ALUG :) On 25 October 2011 16:15, wiedxma k <wiedxma.k@gmail.com> wrote:
And I work and live in Ipswich.
Do you attend / plan to attend the Ipswich segment of the pubmeets? I keep thinking I should go to it one of these days - a bit of a trek from near Norwich though.
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.
Yay another (ex)Slackware user :) I used to run Slackware between versions 8.2 and 13 - really great learning experience. Regards, Srdjan
On 26 October 2011 18:44, Srdjan Todorovic <todorovic.s@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi, welcome to ALUG :)
On 25 October 2011 16:15, wiedxma k <wiedxma.k@gmail.com> wrote:
And I work and live in Ipswich.
Do you attend / plan to attend the Ipswich segment of the pubmeets?
I keep thinking I should go to it one of these days - a bit of a trek from near Norwich though.
Hi, Krystyna. Welcome on board. As Srdjan said, we have a regular Ipswich pub meet at 20:00 on the third Monday of the month at McGintys. It's normally a quiet affair, but is a good opportunity to chat tech stuff. You'd be more than welcome (as indeed would Srdjan! ;). For the record, I've been a Debian guy for quite a while ... but distribution discussions amongst other attendees are always lively. :) Peter.
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:09:35PM +0000, Ricky Bruce wrote:
Ex-Slackware master race checking in.
Everything I have forgotten about Linux, I learned from Slackware
Yay another (ex)Slackware user :) I used to run Slackware between versions 8.2 and 13 - really great learning experience.
Welcome to the list Krystyna
Welcome also. I ran slackware from some ancient version up to version 12, then Red Hat and Fedora, now for the past few years I have been using xubuntu. -- Chris Green
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'... -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
** Anthony Anson <tony.anson@girolle.co.uk> [2011-12-02 17:56]:
wiedxma k wrote:
And I work and live in Ipswich.
Ditto
I'm afraid I'm from way down south, so almost a foreigner ;)
I’ve been interested in GNU/Linux since 2002/2003.
Ah, we're on less contentious ground now.
My interest started with Lasermoon'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,)
I started following in around 1992 or thereabouts and didn't realise how new it was. I spotted an internal IBM forum on getting Linux running on the IBM L40 laptop and since I'd just bought one I took an interest. Not sure whether it is still there, but there used to be an option when compiling the kernel to support the floppy drive on an L40. I live quite close to where Lasermoon were based - well, closer than I do to East Anglia anyway. They were in Wickham, and I kept meaning to get a copy. Unfortunately as I worked for IBM I ended up working with OS/2 (which I actually liked a lot) and Windows NT (not so keen), and with dual boots of those, and a lack of spare machines I didn't get around to installing Linux until much later. I don't remember the SuSE involvement, but I do remember Lasermoon working with Caldera to work towards getting Unix certification for their distributions.
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.
My first distribution as Caldera, but I moved quite quickly onto Red Hat and had fun compiling new kernels with my first installs just to get the Token Ring network cards I used working. I spent a short while with Red Hat before moving on to Debian in 2000 and now Ubuntu.
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...
OK, I was going to give up there and send, but somebody said CP/M. I used to use that on my Amstrad CPC 6128 with Supercalc and Borland Turbo Pascal - the latter transferred onto the 3" disk format. I supported Windows for some time, but it was never my primary OS. Back then I was mainly and Amiga user, but OS/2 made the PC hardware usable where Windows was just a toy (to me anyway, I couldn't see how anyone could take it seriously and do real work with it it was so primitive!). Linux saved me from Windows when OS/2 started fading, as well as getting me work as an AIX admin on the early Netscape suite.
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)
Definitely giving up here, I've deleted the rest to ensure I do. I'm IT through and through though, thankfully working significantly with Linux as my day job :) ** end quote [Anthony Anson] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU
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