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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I have just found SWLUG and signed up to the mailing list.<br>
<br>
I'm a self employed web developer living in Cardiff, and although I
use Windows 10 for desktop and laptop, I do use Linux for
development server to match (sort of) the live environments. <br>
<br>
This is actually a Hyper-V virtual PC running CentOS 7 server with
OpenLiteSpeed and MySQL 8. It has to be CentOS 7 rather than
AlmaLinux 8 because it needs to run some older PHP versions (down to
7.0) which OpenLiteSpeed doesn't support on RHEL 8 and compatible
versions.<br>
<br>
So I am a somewhat lightweight Linux user but still interested. <br>
<br>
I was actually a member of the Hereford LUG over a decade ago when I
lived there, but with various moves and life events my LUG
membership lapsed. It was actually a Facebook Memory of a Software
Freedom Day event that Hereford LUG did in 2010 that prompted me to
look for a LUG here in Cardiff.<br>
<br>
I started coding in Basic when I was a teenager back in the early
80s on the various computers available at the time (initially a
ZX81, then a Commodore 64 and finally a BBC model B) before getting
my first PC and a copy of QuickBasic 4.5, so have been interested in
computers and coding for decades.<br>
<br>
Anyway hopefully I will meet some of you at the next Cardiff meeting
and follow some interesting discussions here.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Paul<br>
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<p><strong>Paul Stenning</strong></p>
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