[Herefordshire] linux

[Julian Robbins]

Hi 

Nice to meet you John.

I was the one with the Vectorlinux joys ;-) Got one working in the end.

I really like Ubuntu, i've been running it as my main distro for about 4
months now. I  agree about the limited amount of stuff on the cd, but if
you have Broadband, using apt-get or Synaptic (the groovy GUI tool for
this, is a joy to behold). Now I know why all those Debian fans get so
enthusiatic about apt-get - it really does work.

After you've picked your extra packages, it just downloads, installs and
configs them if reqd.
Qcad is in their repositories too :-) 

We've managed to persuade one of our students to try Ubuntu on his pc
here at work. So far , he likes it. 

See you next month.

Julian

PS New website is coming on, too slowly I grant you, but I'm gradually
getting more bits on there.
If you want a sneaky peek have a look at www.phil-taylor.co.uk/~hlugorg 




On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:20:43 -0000, "Andrew Hodgson"
<andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking at some of the Linux ports of games over the last
> week.  Do you get sound and graphics drivers installed under your
> distributions?
> 
> I am going to get Debian CDs downloaded either end of this week or early
> next, if anyone wants them please let me know.  Similarly if anyone has
> these and can give me copies at next meeting please let me know.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of John
> Michaelson
> Sent: Wed 26/01/2005 12:22
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Herefordshire] linux 
>  
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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