[Herefordshire] (no subject)

[John Michaelson]

Hello julian,

Could you show me how to do the apt-get thing at the next meeting, it sounds 
very useful. I remember reading about ubuntu being debian based and I’ve 
been wanting to try debian out for a while, so I should give ubuntu a closer 
look. It sounds like ubuntu has taken debian and given it a bit of polish 
and marketing, which sounds like a good thing.

John.



>From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
>Reply-To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
><herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: RE: [Herefordshire] linux
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:42:06 +0000
>
>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