[Liverpool] Hello

[David Watson]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:46, Chris Neary wrote:
> Hi,

Welcome to the LUG Chris.

> This is the obligatory hello message then. I've been using Linux since
> about Mandrake 9.0 (I tend to remember release versions more than dates)
> and have since seen the light and am now a evangelical Ubuntu/Gnome user.
> I've not had much of an install path except for MDK -> (failed) attempt at
> Slack -> Ubuntu, but I absolutely SWEAR by Damn Small Linux as a rescue-CD
> distro - and it's based on Debian. And thus it rocks. I guess it'd be nice
> as a hard-installed distro too.
>
> After looking for a Livlug on lug.org.uk and finding the Liv Uni one and
> this one with a kind of empty homepage a year or so ago now, I kind of
> thought this lug was 'vapourware', but since hearing about it in a recent
> LugRadio episode, seems I was wrong, which is great. And let's hope LXF get
> you/us printed in the lug map next issue.

We should be on the map page already, as of a couple of issues ago I think.

> For those (if any!) of you don't know what LugRadio is, I suggest you visit
> http://www.lugradio.org/ - Top Quality Linuxness to be had there. Contains
> Language. (inside joke hidden in there somewhere, for the lugradio
> faithful)

I've been a LugRadio listener since the beggining, and I'm hoping to get to 
LugRadio Live this year.

> Looking foward to having somewhere to talk about the greatest alt OS around
> (and possibly best mainstream). Will be interesting to see how many other
> newbies are LugRadio-ites.

Hopefully we'll see you at next month's meeting.

-- 
David Watson
Lugmaster, Programmer, Bass Player

http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog
http://liverpool.lug.org.uk

IM(jabber): dwatson at planetwatson.co.uk