[Gllug] Hi!

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM, <isabell121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/28 Matthew King <matthew.king at monnsta.net>:
>>
>> Jose Luis Martinez <jjllmmss at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Caroline
>>> Ford<caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2009/6/27  <isabell121 at gmail.com>:
>>>> Welcome! This isn't the friendliest list for newcomers, to be honest.
>>>> It seems to consist mainly of old male sysadmins. The lug also barely
>>>> meets.
>>>
>>> Which bit do you object to...
>>>
>>>  Old?
>>>
>>>  Male?
>>>
>>>  Sysadmin?
>>>
>>> :-D
>>>
>>> Reading the list reminds me of the Xmas program of Grumpy Old Men ...
>>
>> Some of us are grumpy young mail sysadmins.
>
> Haha I like that!  Thank you to everyone who has welcomed me.  I am not
> going to be here for the next two months as I am moving (to the Greater
> London area), so that email was rather pointless.  I will still have
> internet at places with free WiFi though, such as McDonalds.  I'm sure
> you're not all grumpy, IRC seems quite pleasant!
>
> Jose, why shouldn't I say that I use Ubuntu?  Isn't that an acceptable
> distro?

Of course it is, lets just say that people have very strong feelings
about their first love, which for some shall remain eternal!

> Surely if you use Linux you use Linux, there aren't many people out
> there who do that I've found!  The younger generation using Linux is good,
> in my opinion!  Or is Ubuntu just for new people, noobs?  Which distribution
> would you suggest, then?

I love Ubuntu, all my family, including my 70 year old mum, uses it.

You will find that the older guard on the list have a sane, albeit I
would say a tiny tinsy bit over sensitive, distrust of graphical
interfaces in general.
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