[Cumbria] Hello

[Luke Antins]

> Nice one. Its great to hear people using Slackware, its always seemed
> more real to me, closure to the unix of old, but thats just me. Ive been
> using Slackware since the days of slack 2.

I've only been using just before 8.0 come out, and its more my style, I
never did take a fancy to distros that have a lot of 'fuffware' (not
knocking other distros, just not for me)

> You down loaded ISO's on a 56k mod? Blimy, that must have taken a couple
> of days.

Hehe, that was a few years ago, wish slack I just downloaded what i wanted
and built my own CD :)

--
Kind Regards
Luke Antins

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Pete Bee wrote:

> * Luke Antins (luke@lantyland.co.uk) wrote:
> > > Nice to hear from you. I too was wondering if there was life in Linux
> > > around here. How long you been *nix'ing?
> >
> > Well, about 4-5 years ago I started to play with openbsd, even got tricked
> > into doing "rm -rf /" by some guys in IRC ;)
> >
> > So I fiddled around the BSD side for a good few months on and off, but
> > eventually got my self a copy of Linux (its not fun downloading a ISO or
> > two over a 56k)
> >
> > I've now been using Linux for a good 2-3 years now, and a proud Slackware
> > user :)
> >
> > --
> > Kind Regards
> > Luke Antins
>
> Nice one. Its great to hear people using Slackware, its always seemed more real to me, closure to the unix of old, but thats just me. Ive been using Slackware since the days of slack 2. You down loaded ISO's on a 56k mod? Blimy, that must have taken a couple of days.
>
> So do any of the linux community meet up around these parts? Alas, ive come up from Cambridge so im used to seeing people day in day out....
>
>
> Pete Bee
>
> http://www.rootshell.be/~petebee
>
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>
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