<div dir="ltr">Hi Mo<div><br></div><div>Welcome to Lincolnshire, and to the Lincolnshire LUG mailing list. There are lots of open-source enthusiasts in and around Lincolnshire, and neighbouring counties. Check out some of the other local LUG mailing lists - try Nottingham LUG, Hull LUG, Newark LUG, and of course, Lincoln LUG (which I maintain). Your network could grow tenfold :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Have you heard of Jonathan Nadeau on G+? He is visually impaired too and is a great advocate for assistive technology. He is involved in <a href="http://www.sonargnulinux.com">www.sonargnulinux.com</a>, give the website a look, or you can contact Jonathan direct on G+.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Becky Newborough</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Mick Sulley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mick@sulley.info" target="_blank">mick@sulley.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Guys,<br>
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Re your comments on Ubuntu 14.04, I moved to Linux with Ubuntu 8.10 I think it was, upgraded at each release until they created the Unity desktop, which I hated. I then moved over to Debian, which is good and stable but unfortunately is slow to move to new package releases, so a couple of years back I moved to Linux Mint, which is based upon Ubuntu and follows their release schedule but, in my view, has a much better desktop.<br>
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I definitely recommend that you have a look at it, certainly the best distro I have used.<br>
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Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 08/09/14 15:57, Russell wrote:<br>
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Hi Mo.<br>
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Just to let you know that I received your email no problem. I live in Scunthorpe and run a dual boot system on Windows 7 Professional and Ubuntu 14.04. I also run a couple of other machines on Ubuntu 13.10.<br>
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I must confess that although a big fan of open source software I am not a great fan of 14.04 it has been a major headache to set up cleanly and has lost the graphic drivers on more than one occasion. Compared to earlier renditions I feel it has been rushed in its development and shows it.<br>
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I trust that I may hear from you again sometime.<br>
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Yours<br>
Russell<br>
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On 07/09/14 13:15, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:<br>
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Hello folks.<br>
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My name is Mobeen Iqbal, though i'm known as Mo to most people. We recently moved to lincolnshire, and i'm based about half an hour away from skegness in a small hamlet called hannah. I'm a visually impaired user of the linux operating system, and am currently trying to build a custom talking distribution of linux based on either arch or Ubuntu for the visually impaired. I just wanted to check if my message reaches the list, and also to begin networking with people around lincolnshire. I believe strongly in the strength of open source software, and have worked for many years to supply computers with open source software to the blind across the country. i hope to hear from some of you in due course.<br>
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thanks for reading,<br>
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Mo.<br>
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