[Klug-general] Twenty Years...

[Nathan Friend]

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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