[Menai-LUG] Re: Mandrake 9.2 installation problem (and meetings/UWB)

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Friday 25 Feb 2005 16:04, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley wrote:
> Hi! I'm not sure that I have posted here before.  Anyway I've been
> lurking.I no longer use Mandrake*--preferring the ease of Debian--but many
> of my friends in UWB halls do.  I think, unless you have a specific reason
> not to you should be installing 10.1.  I seem to remember having some
> problems installing 9.x on a machine.

Good point.

> *Its quite good, but not even the best one for being similar to Microsoft
> Windows (cf. Xandros, &c) or having a negligible learning curve for MSW
> users.

If closeness to Windows is really important, Linspire is actually very good, 
except for the thing that keeps flashing to ask you to subscribe to Click 'n' 
Run ....

> Meetings/UWB:
> BTW, when do you guys meet?  I'd be interested in coming some time.

Good question.  I gave up on meetings last year, and a couple of the most 
faithful attendees (TJ, Tom) are now at gainful employment in the South of 
England.  But we probably should have one ... some time ... 

> I am also thinking of starting a free-software (esp. but not only
> GNU/Linux--also *BSD; Firefox, OO.org, GIMP, &c on MSW/MacOS) club for UWB
> students, but am not sure that there is enough demand.

Well, why don't you combine them?  You can use the MenaiLUG name if you like 
and/or help run it.  Quite a few of the attendees at the meetings we had were 
from the Uni, so it might make sense.

One of the key things is deciding what the meetings will do - I tend to prefer 
hands-on stuff, but that's difficult to set up.  Having said that, I have 
just set up a nice little music server this last week, which allows 
individual listeners to set up and run their own playlists simultaneously, 
and I'm busy ripping the whole house's CDs, LPs etc.  I suppose a talk on 
that would be quite welcome in studentland - you could serve music round the 
house/hall!  Of course, everyone would undertake to listen only to their own 
CDs ....

-- 

Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

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