[HLUG] HLUG Meeting - 16th April 2008

[Ralph Jones]

Blimey charlie, talk about ripples in a pond!!! And I thought I was the
only list lurker :)

I think, in light of the fact that he only seems to require those few
basic applications (browser, email, MSN, music player) I'll just pop in
a disc of Gutsy Gibbon, update his sources list to include the media
stuff, and then talk him through using synaptic. If he doesn't like it,
I've tried my best.

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:56 +0100, Alex Mace wrote:
> Will you lot be quiet, some of us are trying to work ;-D
> 
> Nice to see plenty of activity on the list :)
> 
> On 18 Apr 2008, at 11:50, paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
> 
> > Paul,
> >
> > :-)
> > I was just teasing, I guess you could use VMWare server and build a
> > windows VM. on my mac I use virtual PC to do this...
> >
> > it would be nice to see some of the biggies like adobe developing for
> > Linux, though I'm not sure how much take up they'd have, a lot of  
> > pople
> > pick linux because they beleive it's free (which it's not 100% free  
> > if you
> > count your time, and lack of certain apps).
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> Well there is the usual issue of applications (Dreamweaver CS3,
> >> PhotoShop Elements, Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, UltraEdit, Beyond
> >> Compare, Visual Basic 6 etc) for which there are currently no  
> >> suitable
> >> Linux alternatives.
> >>
> >> For instant messaging I use aMSN on Vista which works OK.  I do use  
> >> open
> >> source where possible - OpenOffice, ThunderBird, FireFox, FileZilla,
> >> FrostWire etc.
> >>
> >> The situation is improving!
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
> >>> Paul,
> >>>
> >>>> BTW, I tried the current Windows version of Pidgeon on Vista and it
> >>>> keeps crashing after a couple of hours.
> >>>
> >>> easy to fix, install linux.
> >>>
> >>> :-)
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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