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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/07/2024 3:35 pm, Nathan Friend
      via Kent wrote:<br>
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            to see all these familiar names replying.</div>
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            use Linux daily at work and at the local community radio
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    <p>Now that is interesting. DCR? If so I will have words with you
      when I'm back from Ed Fringe. <br>
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    <p>I have no idea. Possibly not.</p>
    <p>Kev<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Nathan.</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 15:54,
            George Prowse via Kent <<a
              href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>>
            wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr">I just had a look at the list to see if I
              could find when I first posted but I think we moved to a
              new server in November 2004 so it's just everyone
              introducing themselves 20 years ago :)</div>
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at
                12:36, David Roman-Halliday <<a
                  href="mailto:david.halliday@gmail.com" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">david.halliday@gmail.com</a>>
                wrote:<br>
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                <div dir="ltr">What a blast from the past!
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                  <div>I remember turning up in Dover, having been out
                    the night before (if I drank like that now, I'd be
                    unable to function, never mind going to a LUG). I
                    learned a lot from the group and it helped me
                    professionally, not just because someone told me
                    their company was looking for someone with my skill
                    set, where I ended up meeting my wife.</div>
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                  <div>I moved to Ubuntu very quickly, after realising
                    that it was just quicker to get up and running than
                    doing more by hand in Debian.</div>
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                  <div>I'm still using Linux for professional work (less
                    now than a few years ago when I was getting my hands
                    dirty often), managed VMs and layers of service take
                    much of the work out of it. Personally, I have a
                    hosted Linux VM for a collection of personal
                    projects. With most services being cloud based, OS
                    on the personal computer has become less and less
                    relevant. </div>
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Jun 2024
                    at 02:14, George Prowse via Kent <<a
                      href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>>
                    wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">I'm still on Linux, although I'm
                      using various variants of Ubuntu instead of
                      building everything from scratch in Gentoo</div>
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                      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 Jun
                        2024 at 09:06, Kevin Groves via Kent <<a
                          href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
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                        wrote:<br>
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                          <p>Yeah. Well, Linux is so much easier now
                            than back when we had install days :-)</p>
                          <p>Still using Linux pretty much everywhere at
                            home and work, and on so many devices too.
                            Though at the moment I'm focusing on retro
                            systems and building Z80 machines.</p>
                          <p>Agree with Steam Windows. I can't believe
                            I'm able to play AAA Windows games on Linux.
                            They have done an amazing job. :-)</p>
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                          <p>Kev<br>
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                          <div>On 26/06/2024 9:58 pm, James wrote:<br>
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                              <div>Ha! Had forgotten all about this
                                mailing list! <br>
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                              <div>I still use Linux at home. Was an
                                Arch Linux user for a while but I
                                stopped coding and getting my hands
                                dirty with the system, and maintaining
                                Arch became too much of a chore!<br>
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                              <div>Been using Fedora for maybe two years
                                now, but I do miss Arch's package
                                manager, and user repository.<br>
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                              <div>Steam Windows games compatibility is
                                pretty decent now.<br>
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                              <div>James <br>
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                              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed,
                                26 Jun 2024 at 16:35, Kevin Groves via
                                Kent <<a
                                  href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
                                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>>
                                wrote:<br>
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                                all,<br>
                                <br>
                                Been somewhat distracted with numerous
                                projects over the last few years.<br>
                                <br>
                                While trawling one discarded project to
                                bring back to life I notice KLUG <br>
                                hits 20 years old on this mailing list
                                system in November. Of course it <br>
                                is older than that as I previously ran
                                the mailing list one another <br>
                                platform.<br>
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                                Wow, where has that time gone and how
                                different Linux has become.<br>
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                                Anyway, back to the slumber ;-)<br>
                                <br>
                                Kev<br>
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                                -- <br>
                                Kent mailing list<br>
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href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent" rel="noreferrer"
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                        Kent mailing list<br>
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                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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                    Kent mailing list<br>
                    <a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
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href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent" rel="noreferrer"
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            -- <br>
            Kent mailing list<br>
            <a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
            <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent"
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              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent</a><br>
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