[Nottingham] Hello Everyone
Daniel Sutton
daniel.p.sutton at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 10 12:23:47 BST 2008
Is the Nav near the tax offices?
2008/6/10 Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>:
> Daniel,
>
> > Though I'd just say I quick hello to everyone. My names Daniel, I
> > currently live just outside nottingham in the sunny town of heanor.
> [---]
>
> Heanor? Where's that?! ;-)
>
> Thanks for a very good hello, and welcome to the group.
>
>
> As for which distro to try, well I think Martin G's comment is good as
> in you should try a few for yourself and see what you like.
>
> My thoughts are that:
>
> 1: You can go with what your friends use and trust that you share their
> likes and that you can also enjoy some immediate help on your identical
> system;
>
> 2: Try a few distros for yourself and see and learn what is available
> and choose for yourself. There's enough general help on hand that you
> should be able to do your own thing;
>
> 3: Go 'native' and build your own system from scratch! See "LFS".
>
>
> I guess that's also in order of increasing time required but also in
> order of increasing fun and learning :-)
>
>
> Next meet is at the Nav on Thursday 19/06/2008 (hope I got the date
> right this time!!!)... Should we bring a few CDs/DVDs of distros to hand
> out for trial?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> ps: Am I the /only/ Mandriva 'fan'?!
>
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> martin at ml1.co.uk
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