[Herefordshire] linux

[John Michaelson]

hello everyone,

john michaelson here. i was the tall one with in the leather jacket who came 
to the lug for the first time last thursday. i had enjoyed myself and met 
some good people.

i installed ubuntu that night and had a play with it. due to it being a 
single cd install i found it a bit limited compared to the bigger distros 
that i am used to, but as an introduction to linux it's ok.

i tried to install unreal tournament 2004 on ubuntu. ut2004 is meant to run 
on linux as well as windows, but i couldn't get it to run after i installed 
it. i thought that perhaps it was because ubuntu was a fairly small linux 
and didn't satisfy the dependencies, but i later tried getting it running 
under mandrake 10.1 and fedora 3 and it failed to run on them too. bit of a 
disapointment.

box kindly offered to burn me a copy of cedega (runs windows games under 
linux) which i am very interested in. gaming is one of the few things that i 
still need windows for and it would be great if i could get my games running 
under linux instead.

as a metal fabricator/welder i sometimes use programs like autocad to do 
technical drawing. the other day i noticed that mandrake 10.1 comes with 
qcad. this is an opensource program very similar to autocad. i'm slowly 
finding my way around it and it looks pretty good. that's one less program 
that i have to run under windows.

hope to see you all next month,
john.