[Klug-general] Twenty Years...

[Nathan Friend]

Great to see all these familiar names replying.

Still use Linux daily at work and at the local community radio station.

Is the IRC channel still alive?

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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