[Menai-LUG] OT Introductions

David Jones dave at ymchwil.com
Tue Feb 11 08:49:01 2003


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<dave@ymchwil.com> writes:

> As a matter of interest who is everybody on this list ? Would
> anybody mind doing a brief intro about what they do

I'm a software developer/mathematician/engineer (which hat I wear =
depends on the day of the week - lol) working in Bangor

> how they discovered Linux - stuff like that.

Like Huw, I discovered Linux around 1997 whilst studying for my PhD in =
Numerical Analysis. In those early days I must say I was put off by the =
installation problems and didn't progress much with it. This was =
compounded by the availability of such things as LaTeX on the Windows =
platform i.e. EmTeX. In saying that, you get free compilers (C++, =
FORTRAN etc.) and once installed worked beautifully (for me).

Have left it on one side for several years now and would like to get =
back into the nitty gritty. Look forward to the next meeting.

Regards

Dave






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