[Preston] "Blackpool forum" !!

[chris]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 22:36, dazzle68 wrote:
> Yeah Chris, Debs is good - they are all GR8 distros in their own individual 
> way - thats why Linux can and will kiss Windowz into touch , soon me - like 
> the rest of us.
> 
> I have Telewest 1MB Cable here Chris, so I can get filez super-quick!! I like 
> Gentoo/Portage cos it allows me to run a thin Linux distro, just install what 
> I need, and compile optmised for P4 , although since doing that I was pissed 
> off to find that on the day after my compiles finished, the P3 and P4 stage 
> tarballs were released - ah well, I'm just 2 impatient!!
> 
> Yep, I started with Mandrake 7 first, seems ages ago now, and your dead right 
> about the "getting to know things" - I mean you don't HAVE to know, the GUI 
> tools make things easy and quick, but for some reason, if you say "...erm 
> yeah I run Linux" then theres a presumption that you know your stuff - so, I 
> did the same and installed Gentoo so I could get to know what I'm talking 
> about - or try at least ;-)
> 
> I did my HND at Preston Poly - changed its name now hasn't it , "UCL" or 
> something is it not - wouldn't like to say how long it was when I was there 
> though!!
> 
> If you ever get stuck then check out the Gentoo-Forums, dead easy once you've 
> been on there for a couple of hours , got some really nifty gurus on there - 
> I still use it now+then but around 12 months ago I used to use it loads and 
> got responses within an hour or so!! Good ones 2!
> 
> If all else fails, you can mail me here or at work , the latter being 
> darren.edwards3@baesystems.com   - don't ask abou da 3 :-( 
> 
> So, have fun!
> 
> Daz

Cool. I'm at B&F college. I wen't and did A levels at our local sixth
form, but diddn't really like what i was doing there. So i decided to go
do a Software Development diploma.So far its kind of easy, all we're
learning is pascal and some x86 asm. Also doing an A+ cert aswell, but
thats like _really_ easy. 

I remember I started on Turbolinux 6, but gave it up as i had real
problems with it. Then last year i went and downloaded mandrake 8 and
decided to give it another go, and succeeded. I love mandrake, support
is so easy to find on their websites. But felt like getting my hands a
little more dirty, so decided to dig out my old potatoe cd i had burned
a while back, and then used apt to upgrade the distro :o).

Thanks for the offer of help, I'll probably need it at some point, im
always messing and breaking things to try and learn. So much fun when i
finally fix something lol.