[Lincoln LUG] Saying Hello

[Geoff Crow]

Hello Becky and Mo,

Sorry for the delay in replying. Every so often I wipe every thing of my 
laptop and start again trying new distros and clearing away all the 
accumulated junk. The last week has been one of those occasions.

I wanted to try one of the BSD versions then found that it needed either 
a primary partition or a GPT partition.  I didn't have any spare primary 
partitions available and I had been finding the MBR partitioning 
restrictive so I decided to try GPT. After a few false starts I now have 
a GPT partitioned disk with Mint as the main OS. I have not got BSD on 
the laptop, because when I installed BSD it wasn't picked up by Mint and 
when I installed grub through BSD it wouldn't pick up Mint. Another 
problem I found with BSD was that it was very slow in comparison to 
Mint. So in the end I dumped BSD and will reinstall Arch along side Mint.

As for the question of which text editor I use, I have tried a few and 
decided on KDE's Kate I like the fact that it is easy to use (no arcane 
key strokes or talking about buffers or insert and command modes). Just 
save a file as .java and it will syntax highlight, give auto-complete 
suggestions and auto indent.

I have Eclipse installed as well, a bit over the top at the moment but I 
like the way it sets every thing up, catches errors and helps to fix them.

Now a bit more information about the group. Do you get a good turn out 
at the meetings, I belonged to the Mansfield Lug for a while which on a 
good night had six members turn up for meetings. I was hoping for more 
than that.

Anyway thats enough for now, see you soon.

Regards,

Geoff.


On 01/03/15 15:34, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
> Hi Geoff and Mo
>
> Yes, the mailing list is quiet, and we don't hang out on IRC :)
>
> I've mainly been a debian user in the past - tried Ubuntu, didn't like 
> it. However, I'm currently playing around with Windows 8. Please don't 
> hate me!
>
> My husband spends his whole day in a text editor when at work - which 
> one do you use? I've used Geany in the past, but am using Sublime Text 
> at the moment.
>
> We look forward to seeing either of you at one of the meetings soon.
>
> Regards
>
> Becky Newborough
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mobeeniqbal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Geoff.
>
>     Welcome to the lincoln lug mailing list! it still surprises me how
>     quiet this list is, maybe everyone's hanging out on IRC? I'm based
>     in Hannah about 10 minutes away from Alford. i don't make it to
>     many meetings because of my visual impairment, but hope to do so
>     in future. I mainly use debien, and arch when i feel like a change.
>
>     all the best,
>
>     Mo.
>
>
>     On 28/02/2015 17:06, Geoff Crow wrote:
>
>         Hello All,
>
>         Just subscribed to the mailing list and wanted to say hello. 
>         I've been using Linux for a few years now, my first distro was
>         suse 6.1. Having tried a lot of the popular distribution I
>         have settled on LinuxMint for daily use and Arch Linux when I
>         want to push myself a little.
>
>         I am trying to teach myself Java at the moment(it's slow
>         going) using Eclipse and also a basic text editor and command
>         line. When you get to my age new ideas don't stick so easily.
>
>         Any way, hope to see you at some of the meetings in the future.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Geoff Crow.
>
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