[Wolves] To all LUGgers.....

Mark R. Trotman mark at armscroft.com
Fri Jan 28 17:43:22 GMT 2005


Helen Rose wrote:
|>1.  Tim  - will install Mandrake 10.1 - Beginner.
|>
|>2.  sparkes - Debian / Ubuntu / OpenBSD / LFS /
|>myown  ;-)   - been round the block
|>
|>3.  Ron - Gentoo / Ubuntu / SuSE - knew the block
|>when
|>it was a field.
|>
|>4.  Ade - Fedora / Ubuntu / Suse - erm, Bald [ we
|>  need locking! ]
|>
|> >>
|>
|>5.  Woo - Minix, Linux-FT, Red Hat, Fedora
|>(current), OpenBSD & Ubuntu(looking likely) Good at
|>installations. Early stage of conversion from VMS
|>to *x. Love the concepts & the Linux community; hate
|>  the syntax.
|>
|>6.  Pete C Fedora / Suse / White box (under
|>VMware)/and hopefully will take posession of Debian
|>on
|>DVD, tomorrow, £32.15 inc postage and packaging.
|>
|>7.  Simonb: Fedora 3/ ubuntu/ own linux as well as
|>freeBSD, IRIX, HP-UX. Brought into it 9yrs ago, got
|>voluntary position setting up HP-UX machines when
|>in>
|>yr10 of secondary school and compiled my first
|>kernel
|>in the days of the 2.2 kernel.
|>
|>8.  James - Fedora / Red Hat / ARMLinux (although
|>not very much the latter) - Not as experienced as
|>Ron
|>
|>9.  Baza - Ubuntu Linux geeky amateur
|>
|>10. Adam - Debian / Ubuntu. Skills are middling, I'm
|>very capable but there are a number of gaping holes.
|>Not as experienced as James
|>
|>11. Helen - Mandrake / Ubuntu (sort of) - very
|>amateur
|>
|>12. Mo SuSE-beginner-intermediate
|>
|>13. Kevan - SuSE 9.2/Madrake 10.1 (very little used
|>though) +I am ashamed to admit Win 2000 on the
|>family
|>PC.  I would calss myself as intermediate now
|>as I've been around the block and learned very
|>little.  I have had Corel Linux up and running in
|>the
|>past and been a beta tester for Xandros.  I just
|>love to use Linux  :-)
|>
|>14. Rob - SuSE 9.2 - experience: absolute beginner
|>but at least capable of tidying up long mail threads
|>  ;)
|>
|>15. David - Ubuntu / Sarge. Experience: Capable of
|>nearly anything, but lacking any C programming
|>skills.
|>  Started with RedHat 5.[02]{1} then moved
|>to Slackware in 97/98. Dabbled once with some *BSDs,
|>didn't think much of them. Part time Solaris9 admin
|>a
|>few years ago.
|>
|>16. Gary - SuSE 9.2 - Stared with suse 6.2 and tried
|>a few other distro's over the years, but I always
|>prefered SuSE. I'm no expert, but I can get by
|>with the help of google and this group.
|>
|>17. Fizz - Gentoo (debian, SuSE, *BSD) - Messed
|>around
|>with various linux/unix distros for about seven
|>years,
|>never found a perfect distro and always found linux
|>a
|>lot of hard work compared with 'other operating
|>systems ;)' on the desktop. Know my way around but
|>wouldn't claim to be an expert.
|>
|>18. Chris - Debian (+ Morphix/Knoppix), SuSe,
|>Mandrake - Rank Amateur
|
|
| 19. pink (Helen) - Knoppix/debian, Suse, Slackware
| (inc zipslack dowloaded over 28k modem! hardcore!)
| Redhat (for about 3 days) I think I had bsd installed
| on my laptop for about a week untill it ate itself. Im
| pretty settled on debian. Have very specific knowlege
| of how to get my own hardware working but not entirely
| proficient... Using linux since i was 16 (cheers fizz)
| 6 years! god im old...

 >20. Paul (milboro) - First try at Linux was Mdk 9.2 in July '03, then
 >~ SuSE (a week?), Xandros & now Ubuntu.  Still struggling, but I boot
 >into XP only when absolutely necessary these days

21. Mark - Started with RH5.0 (IIRC) and slowly progressed with it 
upgrading to later versions as and when (using NT4 for all the business 
stuff). The time came (in the early days of the Internet) when NT4 blue 
screened once to often whilst I was trying to do some online stuff. 
Opened up the bedroom window and threw all my M$ floppies and CD's into 
the garden below, rang my Linux guru and we were running RH6.2 by tea 
time. Never looked back and no M$ **** has passed over my threshold 
since. :D Still struggle with some of the basics but I can get by quite 
happily.... most days. Currently running FC2 but ISO's for FC3 are in 
hand. Oh! I did have a brief flirtation with HPUX but the less said, the 
better!

-- 

Mark



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