[Herefordshire] newbie

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Roy

Nice to meet you. Welcome to the Herefordshire LUG. We have quite a wide 
spectrum of experience, but hopefully there's something for everyone.

I think you'll find that the newer Linux Distributions like Mandrake and 
Suse etc, have improved somewhat since Mandrake 8 and Redhat 9. 
Nowadays, I think many people would agree that in many ways its easier 
to install the newer linux distros than Windows XP these days. You can 
easily repartition Windows drives even ones formatted with NTFS, and 
make them dual boot without any difficulty at all.

One word of warning; I wouldnt try to upgrade your Mandrake 8 to 10.2. 
Usually, if you do upgrade it works ok if you do it between versions, or 
perhaps 2 versions. Because so many things have changed dramatically 
between 8 and 10.2, I dont think that it would work too well. Though, I 
havent tried it ;-)

Perhaps we ought to consider an install evening as a monthly meeting 
sometime.  I know the Shropshire LUG do this, and many other LUGs do.

Hope to see you at the next meeting

Cheers

Julian

Roy M wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm Roy a senior member of society, scrap heap stuff you know! Very 
> much a newbie from Bromyard.
>
> Got redhat 9 on a removable disc and Mandrake 8 on an old laptop.
> Been given the Mandrake 10 discs. Not sure where I'm going to put it 
> yet. From what I gather it will need upgrading to, 10.2 is it?
>
> I've been principally using  Ms  but am trying to get to grips with 
> Linux. -Trouble is I'm short of time to study it's workings. Do allot 
> of exercise and play Badminton you see-. Tried to swap over and got 
> frustrated, only making some notes in O O. But I lurk allot on the LUG 
> lists hoping to pick up tips.
>
> I went to the GLOS. lug meeting a couple of years ago, but the slick 
> minds there got the better of me and I was lost!
>
> Got myself a book - Sams teach yourself Linux- but find it hard going, 
> confusing to my well worn brain!! I can't find the command screen yet!
>
> If you have read this far, thank you.