[Lincs] multitude of sins

[Richard Williams]

Hi,

Think this is my  first post - would love to attend a Lincoln meet.

As for laptops, I've just bought two from Dell coz the prices were
brilliant.

Anyone got any thoughts/comments on the Gentoo distro - complete newbie
but believe in learning by finding out what goes on "under the bonnet" -
of course I may live to regret that last statement. :)

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> [mailto:lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of 
> pete at ninjafriendly.com
> Sent: 19 September 2005 14:07
> To: lincs at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Lincs] multitude of sins
> 
> 
> Quoting iain Baker <iain.dbaker at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Sin 1) Laptops
> > i have sent a message before but like i said - i dont think 
> mail man 
> > likes me so... does anyone know a good manufacturer of 
> laptops? i am 
> > looking to get a decent spec, somewhat future proof laptop at a not 
> > <dubious_spelling>extorshionate</dubious_spelling> prices, 
> and rather 
> > unsurprisingly want it to be linux compatible...
> 
> I like Thinkpads (currently on a T23) but I buy them second-hand.
> 
> > Sin 2) LLUG Distro
> > what do you say?
> 
> How much of it are we going to build?  If we go down the "customized 
> version of
> something else" (Debian?) route, we'll (provided we're 
> careful) be able to an use the base distro's patches.  Is it 
> better to customize the look, feel and probably the default 
> package choice of an existing distro or are we more ambitious 
> than that?
> 
> Personally I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel.
> 
> > sin 3) Real Life Meetings
> > we need one!
> > anyone disagree?
> 
> yup, Lincoln get's my vote.
> 
> > sin 4) Future
> 
> would prefer not split.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
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