[Beds] Who's Here?

[Darren Parkinson]

1. Say Hi! So we know who's here.

Hi, sorry for the delay... Been pretty hectic... I even made the news (kind
of...) http://www.kbjr.com/Story.aspx?preview=&type=ln&NStoryID=3674 (check
the video)...

 2. Whereabouts are you?
Just north of Bedford.

3. What's your relationship with Linux? (how did you come to use it, what do
you use it for, etc)

I used to be a Solaris Admin and I'm a huge fan of unix based systems.  A
job I had led to me exclusively using Linux for the intranet and developing
in php.  The chap I was working with was a massive Linux (slackware) fan and
he got me into it.  I wasn't that keen at first, having played with very
early SUSE linux -- it didn't seem as tidy as Solaris, but then I guess
Solaris used to only support a very distinct set of platforms and hardware.
I've most recently been trying to use it as a desktop and also playing
around with Asterisk.

4. What's your preferred distribution? (no need to get into why unless you
really want to, just establishing a demographic!)

Fedora/Redhat and OpenSUSE/SUSE, mainly because I figure these are the two
main corporate distributions which are likely to be used in business.  I
mainly used SUSE because it was from Europe, but more recently because of
the excellent Mono project, but now that's available in Fedora, so currently
running that...

5. What do you hope to get out of being involved with a Linux User Group?
What sort of things would you like to see the group do?

Not sure really... Nice to catch up with like minded people and talk about
the various uses of the platform.  Maybe some development sessions, perhaps
a group application project -- I've read loads about it and it would be nice
to go through the process and see the whole thing through...

Hope that's what you were after... Hopefully see you all again soon...
Darren.


On 9/3/06, Adrian St. John <adrian at stjohn-home.net> wrote:
>
> > So here's a little list of questions for anyone who's interested....
> >
> > 1. Say Hi! So we know who's here.
> Hi! I'm here (if a little late...)
>
> > 2. Whereabouts are you?
> Moggerhanger, near Sandy
>
> > 3. What's your relationship with Linux? (how did you come to use it,
> > what do you use it for, etc)
> I've been using Linux since 1995 when I was writing cross-platform
> network software that had to work on UNIX, Linux, VMS, Windows, OS/9,
> DOS, etc.
> Originally development was on SunOS and ported, but after 6 months I
> changed that around to development primarily on Linux systems (along
> with changing the network infrastructure to use Linux servers).
>
> Unfortunately when I changed jobs it moved further away from Linux until
> 2 years ago when we were 'forced' to install Debian on a PC to get a
> critical piece of software running, and since then I have been
> convincing my boss to increase our Linux usage, to the point that we
> are now seriously considering porting our server software to Linux.
>
> At home I use a Debian-Linux installation as my email server / firewall
> machine, and I would be running Ubuntu on my laptop if I could sort out
> the overheating problems.
>
> > 4. What's your preferred distribution? (no need to get into why
> > unless you really want to, just establishing a demographic!)
>
> I'm most comfortable with Debian, but I like Ubuntu as a desktop system.
>
> > 5. What do you hope to get out of being involved with a Linux User
> > Group? What sort of things would you like to see the group do?
>
> I'm looking for people to talk to, finding out interesting tips that I'd
> not encountered, and help in sorting out these new-fangled desktop
> environments (KDE, Gnome) - I've been so long at a console, and haven't
> progressed much past ctwm that I was using at university.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian St. John.
>
> --
> Adrian St. John <adrian at stjohn-home.net>
>
>
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