[Sussex] Salutations!

[Alan Fitton]

Hi, i just saw the link for this user group in the Linux Magazine (reading 
material to keep some sanity on a stressful weekend away). Until now i have 
been unaware of any Linux users in the area, it's great to see this user 
group. I thought I'd introduce myself :)

I live in Easebourne, just outside of Midhurst.

I run Slackware 9 which i keep very up-to-date, it's easily the best Linux 
distribution I've come across after using a few versions of RedHat and 
Mandrake but not quite getting it working with my hardware or to my likeing 
to make it my primary OS.

Anyone in Midhurst that hasn't already should head over to 
broadband4midhurst.co.uk and make your pre-registration for ADSL. A friend 
runs the site and i help here and there.

On my P4 box I use it as a general purpose desktop 
(GNOME/KDE/Wmaker/Blackbox mostly). I also have a quite ancient box (no 
XF86) which, for now, Is for learning/messing around with Linux, when ADSL 
becomes available in Midhurst i will run it as a dedicated server running 
Apache+mod_php, sendmail, popa3d, MySQL, BNC. It is quite a wreck really - 
100mhz, 32MB RAM, no video/sound card, monitor, mouse, keyboard (all is done 
via SSH) but it manages to do its tasks reasonably well. When Midhurst gets 
ADSL it will probably host a forum for broadband4midhurst.co.uk where people 
can seek advice and support with our new technology!.

I currently dont know any programming languages, just some very basic perl, 
tcl and bash scripting (none of which really count!).

I look forward to taking part in discussions soon.

Regards,
Alan

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