[Falkirk] New member

Robert Lazzurs rob at lazzurs.net
Wed May 14 13:48:13 BST 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Robert Lazzurs <rob at lazzurs.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:17 PM, David Smith <daviejsmith at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi Callum
>  >
>  >   A number of easy questions. Where do you meet up and to what can I do go
>  > get ecquainted with linux before the meet.?  Experience is a great thing but
>  > I don't know of any system near me that runs linux. Maybe a book or a linux
>  > magazine? By the way irc.freenode.net did not work.
>
>  Hello Davie,
>
>  First of all if you have not selected a Linux distribution to play
>  with I can highly recommend either Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ or
>  Fedora http://fedora.redhat.com/
>
>  The first meeting was in The Goose on Newmarket Street in Falkirk
>  however I believe we are considering moving to The Den on Manor
>  Street.
>
>  The meetings are always the first Tuesday of the Month.
>
>  If you are using Windows you will require an IRC client to connect to
>  Freenode.  X-Chat, a popular Linux IRC client has been ported to
>  Windows and can be downloaded from http://www.xchat.org/download/

Sorry for following up my own post but it turns out that is not a free
download, so here is a link to a free build of X-Chat for Windows.
http://www.silverex.org/download/

Hope to see you on IRC.



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