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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hello all, this is my first post in the
mail shot...I just moved to Dudley from Kent (I’m from Portsmouth
originally, then an East End Londoner!), and was looking for a local
group. I’m going to come down to the group meeting next week and
hopefully learn a lot! I have dabbled in Linux on and off for about 4
years, but I’ve never fully taken the leap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I was recently inspired by the XGL
environment when a mate showed me a youtube video of someone with this
installed on a touch screen machine, and it really puts all other GUIs to
shame! I am mainly an OS X user, and have staunchly supported Apple since
my first G4 in 1999 (although I was working on them from the mid 90s). I
use win XP on 2 machines at home, and really want to move over to Linux as a
main OS, and then only keep windows xp in a boot partition for compatability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>So, next question, what distro? I am
keen on Suse 10.2 and Ubuntu. I have edubuntu installed on a G4 for my
kid, he seems pretty happy with it (he’s 7, I’m 34)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I run a music studio and want a stable fast
OS for audio recording (multiple stereo audio streams into a sequencer), as I
use a notebook for composing (Dell) My main music workhorse is a iMac
intel 20”, running Logic pro, which I love and won’t change as I
know it inside out, but for portability I want a fast stable Linux OS to rely
on for MP3 deejaying and using Ableton live (is there a Linux port of that???)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Anyway, that’s enough for now or I’ll
have nothing to say at the meeting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Please be gentle, I’m not a noob but
I’m no master at Linux, and any Apple aficionados amongst you have a new
friend!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Cheers for reading, regards, Steve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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