Hello Sarah,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sarah Burgess</b> <<a href="mailto:sarah@myplace.uklinux.net">sarah@myplace.uklinux.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>Remember me?! </blockquote><div><br>No but hello! <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I know it's been an awfully long time since I've been to the
<br>meetings (personal reasons that I won't discuss in such a public place).<br>What's the attendance like nowadays? Is it still the same old crowd or do<br>we have some fresh faces?</blockquote><div><br>Fresh faces like me and then stale and crusty ones like Ben and Paul
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a couple of reasons for getting in touch. Firstly, I hope I'll be<br>
able to start attending meetings again, and maybe even bring along a friend<br>or two. But I didn't just want to turn up out of the blue!</blockquote><div><br>Please do. It keeps life exciting and lord knows we're all in need of some.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Secondly, I'm thinking of buying a new laptop and wanted some advice as I've
<br>no experience of installing linux on modern hardware. My existing machines<br>are rather old! I'd want to dual-boot windows and debian (or a<br>debian-derived distro). Anyone have experience of dual booting with Vista,
<br>or would XP be a better choice? I'm hopeless at making decisions when it<br>requires parting with relatively large amounts of cash, so any pointers<br>would really help ;-)</blockquote><div><br>Libby from BHCLUG will tell you to stay away from brand new machines. Reason being is that the drivers for a lot of the hardware haven't worked their way into the kernel or distro repositories yet. I have an IBM t42 which is ace. The only quibble I have with it is the madwifi drivers required to make the wireless work.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hope you're all well, and maybe I'll see you sometime soon, eh?</blockquote>
<div><br>I look forward to meeting you!<br></div><br>Cheers<br>Chris<br></div><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.chruz.com">http://www.chruz.com</a>