[Klug-general] Twenty Years...

[David Roman-Halliday]

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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