<div dir="ltr">Hi Geoff<div><br></div><div>Attendance at meetings varies, depending on what people have got on. There will always be 2 of us there (me and hubby, Philip) as a minimum. We have 8 other regular members who come to most meetings, and a few others who drop in as and when time permits.</div><div><br></div><div>We usually notice an increase in attendance when I announce on the LUG lists that there will be cake (LUG birthday, Christmas, Easter etc) - strange that! :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Becky</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Geoff Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grc1@gmx.co.uk" target="_blank">grc1@gmx.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hello Becky and Mo,<br>
<br>
Sorry for the delay in replying. Every so often I wipe every thing
of my laptop and start again trying new distros and clearing away
all the accumulated junk. The last week has been one of those
occasions.<br>
<br>
I wanted to try one of the BSD versions then found that it needed
either a primary partition or a GPT partition. I didn't have any
spare primary partitions available and I had been finding the MBR
partitioning restrictive so I decided to try GPT. After a few
false starts I now have a GPT partitioned disk with Mint as the
main OS. I have not got BSD on the laptop, because when I
installed BSD it wasn't picked up by Mint and when I installed
grub through BSD it wouldn't pick up Mint. Another problem I found
with BSD was that it was very slow in comparison to Mint. So in
the end I dumped BSD and will reinstall Arch along side Mint.<br>
<br>
As for the question of which text editor I use, I have tried a few
and decided on KDE's Kate I like the fact that it is easy to use
(no arcane key strokes or talking about buffers or insert and
command modes). Just save a file as .java and it will syntax
highlight, give auto-complete suggestions and auto indent.<br>
<br>
I have Eclipse installed as well, a bit over the top at the moment
but I like the way it sets every thing up, catches errors and
helps to fix them.<br>
<br>
Now a bit more information about the group. Do you get a good turn
out at the meetings, I belonged to the Mansfield Lug for a while
which on a good night had six members turn up for meetings. I was
hoping for more than that. <br>
<br>
Anyway thats enough for now, see you soon.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Geoff.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 01/03/15 15:34, Rebecca Newborough wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Geoff and Mo
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<div>Yes, the mailing list is quiet, and we don't hang out on
IRC :)</div>
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<div>I've mainly been a debian user in the past - tried Ubuntu,
didn't like it. However, I'm currently playing around with
Windows 8. Please don't hate me!</div>
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<div>My husband spends his whole day in a text editor when at
work - which one do you use? I've used Geany in the past, but
am using Sublime Text at the moment.</div>
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</div>
<div>We look forward to seeing either of you at one of the
meetings soon.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Becky Newborough</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Mobeen
Iqbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mobeeniqbal@gmail.com" target="_blank">mobeeniqbal@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello
Geoff.<br>
<br>
Welcome to the lincoln lug mailing list! it still surprises
me how quiet this list is, maybe everyone's hanging out on
IRC? I'm based in Hannah about 10 minutes away from Alford.
i don't make it to many meetings because of my visual
impairment, but hope to do so in future. I mainly use
debien, and arch when i feel like a change.<br>
<br>
all the best,<br>
<br>
Mo.
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On 28/02/2015 17:06, Geoff Crow wrote:<br>
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Hello All,<br>
<br>
Just subscribed to the mailing list and wanted to say
hello. I've been using Linux for a few years now, my
first distro was suse 6.1. Having tried a lot of the
popular distribution I have settled on LinuxMint for
daily use and Arch Linux when I want to push myself a
little.<br>
<br>
I am trying to teach myself Java at the moment(it's
slow going) using Eclipse and also a basic text editor
and command line. When you get to my age new ideas
don't stick so easily.<br>
<br>
Any way, hope to see you at some of the meetings in
the future.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Geoff Crow.<br>
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