[Hudlug] Hello guys! Remember me?

[Tim Bray]

Sarah Burgess wrote:
> 
> Remember me?!  I know it's been an awfully long time since I've been to the
> meetings (personal reasons that I won't discuss in such a public place).
> What's the attendance like nowadays?  Is it still the same old crowd or do
> we have some fresh faces?

I haven't been for ages either.

> Secondly, I'm thinking of buying a new laptop and wanted some advice as I've
> no experience of installing linux on modern hardware.  My existing machines
> are rather old!  I'd want to dual-boot windows and debian (or a
> debian-derived distro).  Anyone have experience of dual booting with Vista,
> or would XP be a better choice?  I'm hopeless at making decisions when it
> requires parting with relatively large amounts of cash, so any pointers
> would really help ;-)

Ubuntu runs like a dream on my Sony Vaio laptop.  It even detected that
the screen is widescreen without me having to do anything.

I've moved most of my desktop machines to ubuntu - just works like a dream.

Tim