[Powys] hello

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 22:09 +0100, Andreas T. Ege wrote: 
> not much conversation happening on this list in the last weeks... ;-)

Yes, it's a very quiet LUG, isn't it? I think they've all
flown south for the winter :-/

There's also a Shropshire LUG that holds regular meetings in 
Telford or Shrewsbury, btw.

> I'm new on this list, and wanted to introduce me in brief.
> 
> I've moved from Germany to Guilsfield, Welshpool, in January this 
> year, and am working as a veterinarian in mixed practice in Welshpool.

Croeso i'r / Wilkommen auf Welshpool - I visit the town
most months for various reasons; I'm afraid it's not noted
for its Free Software activity :-/

> On the linux track I started about 10 years ago, with some tentative 
> trys on RedHat then. I abandoned the idea for about a year, because I 
> couldn't get the internet working... But I found out, I was a bit 
> further then a friend, who, with SuSE (I think 5.x, or was it 6.x?) 
> couldn't get his printer work, not to mention internet...

SuSE was v big in Germany in the late 90s, wasn't it?
A friend of mine moved back here from Dusseldorf about
then, and used SuSE to run his business, as it was
what he was used to.

 - Richard
/me is currently slightly distracted setting up rootz and vamos

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