[Lancaster] Meeting interest ...

[Wayne Ward]

Ah somebody is still on the list!!
The amateur radio stuff sounds interesting ken

I used to swear by debian its solid i used to use the studio64 edition used to work a treat for me, im currently running ubuntu on my workstation and laptop and soon will be using it on the nexus 4 and nexus 7 when the final release of debian touch arrives!
Im using unity but im going to try gnome on a VM when i get my new dell xps developer edition this week!
Its good hearing from you ken and glad to hear your still running linux and hopefully see you at one of the next meetings

im just trying to date back when i originally created the LUG and its going back to 2000 im thinking because i did the first meeting at the george and dragon back in 2000 and it didnt work so the folly created one in 2002 as faras i can see from the archive on the mailing lists! did you attend the first meeting at the george and dragon on the quay i cant remember it was that long ago!!!

wayne

RE

Hi Wayne,

It's good to see that you are keeping the LUG ball rolling. I haven't been
down to Lancaster for some time, mainly because other interests are taking up
my time -- mainly amateur radio.  I now have a full amateur radio license
which means that not only can I transmit on any of the amateur radio
frequencies, but I am also allowed to build my own transmitters, etc.

Of course I still use Debian Linux as my main OS with VirtualBox for the odd
occasion when I have to use Win XP. I use 'wine' for a few Win apps that can
be run via wine.

Last night I downloaded and installed the latest and very recently released
version of Debian Linux (Wheezy v7.0.0). As expected with Debian, installation
went faultlessly.

Not sure that I like the latest desktop, but then I'm still a Gnome 2 user
who is used to a big VDU (Dell Ultrasharp 24") and a comfortable mouse. It
seems to me that recent desktops are really aimed at small touch screens. I
dislike recent versions of Ubuntu for the same reason.

Time will tell.

Keep up the good work.

Best wishes to all.

Regards

Ken Hough
Kendal
Cumbria

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