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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a Linux dabler, - I am trying to transfer all
my windows skills into the Open Source community. I am employed a a
Systems Development Officer in Local Government, I do a lot of work in
evaluating and commisioning new software and hardware products, Including
Linux.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am currently running Mandrake 10.0 in a VMWare
environment at home and are very impressed, so much so that I intend to remove
my XP machine in favour of a Linux distro (either Mandrake 10 or the new Suse
(Novells Version))</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What are anyones experiences. I also run a
load of IIS webservers which I plan to swap out to Apache on Linux with
Php.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes to the group and further interesting
discussions. (Bring on the website - try Mambo on Linux)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>