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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Typical…</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I spend 2 days at home without a net connection in sight and miss out on all your replies! :-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Right, quite a bit to reply to, so here we go!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>mmm, Ubuntu. A review of Hoary Hedgehog would be interesting</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just upgraded (using apt-get) my laptop Ubuntu install to Hoary, I'll be posting my Ubuntu/Knoppix comparison review (based on Ubuntu Warty and Knoppix 3.7) later today.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>A Debian Grimoire </FONT><A HREF="http://deb.riseup.net/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://deb.riseup.net/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mana from heaven!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>the LLUG web site should go in the direction of a Wiki</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We all love Wiki's! I haven't had a look at the new site yet 'cause I keep getting 404 errors when trying to access the site. If you want any help, coding, design, whatever, give me an email.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>Thunderbird just automagically took the "(was: Ubuntu CDs)" </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And replaced it with…? ;-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>[llug meetings] Actually, I'm not too keen on going much further north than Boston.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Transport for myself is a problem, being without a car means it's either walking distance or someone has to feel sorry for me and give me a lift.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>creating a few additional site logos for special events</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I could knock some out for ya… watcha want?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>[Scunthorpe LUG] maybe at somepoint in the future we can have an inter-lug meeting for presentations</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Excellent idea, how about trying to orgainise a meeting with the Nottingham LUG as well, that's reasonablly close for those LLUG members living in/near Boston/Lincoln. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[LLUG Distro Stuff]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>Just give me an idea of what you want on it, and I will see what I can do.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Comments on this but,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We can either build our own (never tried it - but I presume we could use one of Chris's boot disks as a base - this would mean that the user would have to compile their Linux installation on their machine, then add their apps, etc…)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Or we could take another distro as a base (Debian perhaps) and modify the user interface, packages, etc..</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[also what are peoples ideas on GUI's? do we want Gnome/KDE or do we want to go for something a little less mainstream, like ratpoison or PMW or Flux box etc.??]</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I prefer GNOME in day to day use… I'm a pretty recent convert to GNOME but it works for me, I don't mind Fluxbox either… the GUI depends on what sort of distro we want to produce. Not trolling here but IMHO KDE is just too cluttered) Fluxbox and other lightweight GUI's work well. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[Distro Apps]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">GUI: GNOME</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Office App - Ooo (Ooo 2 is out very soon… nice)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Web browser - Mozilla Firefox</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Email - Thunderbird -</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Chat package - Don't use them…</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">DVD/Media: Xine</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sound/Music: XMMS</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Grahame Mulliss</FONT></B><BR>
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