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<font size="-1">Hah!<br>
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I've simply hit reply to this email and hope it gets there. 8)<br>
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Just wanted to say hi Ben and to let you know you're not the only
one wanting more contact with local Linux users. I'm out on the
coast at Walton on the naze and suffice to say it's not just the
linux scene out here that's dead. <br>
I'm probably one of the older guys on most of the forums and irc
channels I frequent having been in the Army for 12 years, in IT
(MCSE) for almost 17 years and ran my own business for a few
years. I found linux back in the mid 90's when I was given a
Caldera linux disk. I approached a work colleague with an issue
and he introduced me to slackware (I didn't stick with it). I'm
currently the proud owner of not one but four linux distributions
on my PC, openSUSE for work, Mint as a fallback for work (I keep
breaking things), Ubuntu Studio (I write music and play a little
guitar and keyboards) and my main distro for playing and
experimenting is Manjaro (I was formerly an Arch user).<br>
I would most definitely join any meetings and/or events arranged
and would also like to help on any forum or irc channels that we
could frequent. I wholeheartedly back any moves to kick the
Colchester branch back into motion. It's been very quiet since I
joined a couple of months back.<br>
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hoping to hear more responses.<br>
<br>
O7<br>
<br>
Martyn<br>
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irc name Nytram on freenode #manjaro, #arch, #suse and #linuxmint<br>
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Hi, I'm Ben and I'm a slackware user most of the time, although I find
puppy linux very interesting because its secure and highly portable.
I've noticed that the colchester.lug.org.uk page is not available. Is
there a reason for this? I did Internet at collage, maybe I could help
maintain it? I spoke to the guys in #lug.org.uk at irc.lug.org.uk and
they said colchester lug can have some hosting space on lug.org.uk
My main reason for reaching out to this group is to meet up with other
linux users in colchester. Its easy to find people to chat with online
about linux but near impossible to find anyone to chat to in person.
These raspberry pi things look great but I've never seen one in real
life :( I've often thought it would be sweet if I could run a
realtime kernel on one and run rakarrack on it and have it as a
portable guitar fx pedal ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rakarrack/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/rakarrack/</a>
)
My life outside of being a very mediocre linux sys admin consists
mostly of being a musician. I am playing tonight in colchester town at
the hole in the wall pub. Its a bit of a long shot but if any of you
guys are near then it would be great to chat to you. I'm gonna need to
kill a few hours between sound check at 7pm and playing the gig at
10pm. You wont be able to miss me, I've got one massive 4 year old
unix style beard.
You can often find me hanging out on irc at freenode as the-jub, I've
just started frequenting the #colchester-lug there, also you may find
me as just jub on irc.lug.org.uk in #linux or somewhere
\o
Ben
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