[Klug-general] Twenty Years...
Kevin Groves
kgroves at besbox.com
Thu Aug 1 09:34:54 UTC 2024
Now that is interesting. I've messaged you on FB as I have a cunning
plan if you are up for it.
Kev
On 26/07/2024 3:49 pm, Nathan Friend wrote:
> Just the IT. A tech show could be fun but then there are lots of
> podcasts doing that.
>
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 15:12, George Prowse <george.prowse at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Where and when can we hear your dulcet tones or is it just the IT?
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 15:40, Nathan Friend via Kent
> <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Yep, DCR. Been helping out with their IT for a few years.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 13:16, Kevin Groves via Kent
> <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 07/07/2024 3:35 pm, Nathan Friend via Kent wrote:
>> Great to see all these familiar names replying.
>>
>> Still use Linux daily at work and at the local community
>> radio station.
>>
> Now that is interesting. DCR? If so I will have words with
> you when I'm back from Ed Fringe.
>
>
>> Is the IRC channel still alive?
>
> I have no idea. Possibly not.
>
> Kev
>
>
>>
>> Nathan.
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 15:54, George Prowse via Kent
>> <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I just had a look at the list to see if I could find
>> when I first posted but I think we moved to a new
>> server in November 2004 so it's just everyone
>> introducing themselves 20 years ago :)
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 12:36, David Roman-Halliday
>> <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What a blast from the past!
>>
>> I remember turning up in Dover, having been out
>> the night before (if I drank like that now, I'd
>> be unable to function, never mind going to a
>> LUG). I learned a lot from the group and it
>> helped me professionally, not just because
>> someone told me their company was looking for
>> someone with my skill set, where I ended up
>> meeting my wife.
>>
>> I moved to Ubuntu very quickly, after realising
>> that it was just quicker to get up and running
>> than doing more by hand in Debian.
>>
>> I'm still using Linux for professional work (less
>> now than a few years ago when I was getting my
>> hands dirty often), managed VMs and layers of
>> service take much of the work out of it.
>> Personally, I have a hosted Linux VM for a
>> collection of personal projects. With most
>> services being cloud based, OS on the personal
>> computer has become less and less relevant.
>>
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 at 02:14, George Prowse via
>> Kent <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I'm still on Linux, although I'm using
>> various variants of Ubuntu instead of
>> building everything from scratch in Gentoo
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 09:06, Kevin Groves
>> via Kent <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah. Well, Linux is so much easier now
>> than back when we had install days :-)
>>
>> Still using Linux pretty much everywhere
>> at home and work, and on so many devices
>> too. Though at the moment I'm focusing on
>> retro systems and building Z80 machines.
>>
>> Agree with Steam Windows. I can't believe
>> I'm able to play AAA Windows games on
>> Linux. They have done an amazing job. :-)
>>
>>
>> Kev
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26/06/2024 9:58 pm, James wrote:
>>> Ha! Had forgotten all about this mailing
>>> list!
>>> I still use Linux at home. Was an Arch
>>> Linux user for a while but I stopped
>>> coding and getting my hands dirty with
>>> the system, and maintaining Arch became
>>> too much of a chore!
>>> Been using Fedora for maybe two years
>>> now, but I do miss Arch's package
>>> manager, and user repository.
>>> Steam Windows games compatibility is
>>> pretty decent now.
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 16:35, Kevin
>>> Groves via Kent
>>> <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Been somewhat distracted with
>>> numerous projects over the last few
>>> years.
>>>
>>> While trawling one discarded project
>>> to bring back to life I notice KLUG
>>> hits 20 years old on this mailing
>>> list system in November. Of course it
>>> is older than that as I previously
>>> ran the mailing list one another
>>> platform.
>>>
>>> Wow, where has that time gone and
>>> how different Linux has become.
>>>
>>> Anyway, back to the slumber ;-)
>>>
>>> Kev
>>>
>>>
>>>
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