[Klug-general] Twenty Years...

[Kevin Groves]

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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