[SLUG] Re: Scarborough Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6

[David Webster]

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>   1. Digital Scarborough (Stephen O'Neill)
>   2. Next Meeting (Stephen O'Neill)
>   3. Re: Digital Scarborough (Jamie)
>   4. Re: Next Meeting (Jonathan Worthington)
>   5. Re: Digital Scarborough (Stephen O'Neill)
>   6. Please advise me on my next distribution... (Stephen O'Neill)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:22:10 +0100
>From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: [SLUG] Digital Scarborough
>To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>Hi all,
>
>The Digital Scarborough event was a success and was a good opportunity 
>to highlight our group and make contacts in the community.
>
>We now have a contact at the paper, gave out plenty of leaflets and 
>generated a lot of enthusiasm amongst others for OSS in general; and 
>amongst ourselves for other ways to get our profile raised.
>
>I'd just like to offer kudos to those that got us there though:
>
>1) Mike - we'd not have had a stall without him and we'd have been none 
>the wiser of the missed opportunity, so thanks!
>2) John, Farrell and other contributors to the leaflets - they were 
>great to hand out and hopefully will have been read and digested by a 
>few people - we have plenty left for future events.
>3) Ian who manned the stall for about a day in total.
>4) Dave, Gareth and anyone else who manned the stall.
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>A job well done!
>
>Steve
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>Message: 2
>Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:26:40 +0100
>From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: [SLUG] Next Meeting
>To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>Hi all,
>
>Just to reiterate - the next meeting is on Monday 6th June, Cricketers 
>Pub at 19:30.
>
>The theme is XEN and posted on the website.
>
>I'll be bringing my machine in, hopefully with XEN running to demo and 
>also project looking glass etc.
>
>Having a machine there will also provide a chance to show things off to 
>people that are new to Linux - e.g. Open Office, GIMP Etc so if you know 
>of any maybes then get them to come along - it promises to be a good night!
>
>Steve
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>Message: 3
>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:02:07 +0100
>From: Jamie <whostolemypen at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Digital Scarborough
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>>1) Mike - we'd not have had a stall without him and we'd have been 
>>none the wiser of the missed opportunity, so thanks!
>>2) John, Farrell and other contributors to the leaflets - they were 
>>great to hand out and hopefully will have been read and digested by a 
>>few people - we have plenty left for future events.
>>3) Ian who manned the stall for about a day in total.
>>4) Dave, Gareth and anyone else who manned the stall.
>>
>>A job well done!
>>
>>Steve
>>    
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>Ditto. A great opportunity well used.
>
>Congratulations and well done to everyone.
>
>Jamie
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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:12:02 +0100
>From: "Jonathan Worthington" <jonathan at jwcs.net>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Next Meeting
>To: "Scarborough Linux User Group" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>"Stephen O'Neill" <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Just to reiterate - the next meeting is on Monday 6th June, Cricketers Pub 
>>at 19:30.
>>
>>The theme is XEN and posted on the website.
>>
>>    
>>
>Xen was conceived where I'm currently studying (Cambridge Uni). It's kinda 
>strange looking at the research papers for it and thinking "hey, I've been 
>lectured by/chatted with that guy".  :-)
>
>Hope to make a some LUG meetings when I'm back in Scarborough,
>
>Jonathan 
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>Message: 5
>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:19:48 +0100
>From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Digital Scarborough
>To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>Jamie wrote:
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>>Congratulations and well done to everyone. 
>>    
>>
>Pah, I knew I missed at least one person, thanks for the Ubuntu stuff - 
>it was great to hand over to people, especially the live cd to a nice 
>chap who "used red hat 2 years ago but ditched it because of 
>compatibility problems".
>
>The Open CDs provided by Mike were also really useful for that purpose.
>
>The CDs and leaflets were provided at Mike/John's personal expense too 
>for the records.
>
>Steve
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>Message: 6
>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:41:48 +0100
>From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: [SLUG] Please advise me on my next distribution...
>To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>Hi all,
>
>I'm after some advice on what distro I should try next.
>
>I have only used 2 so far - Fedora Core 3 and Suse 9.2.
>
>I liked FC3 - it had a great community with lots of forums to scour for 
>tips and help - e.g. getting ATI drivers to work etc plus the latest 
>KDE, gnome etc.
>
>I disliked Suse - I can't find a way of getting bleeding edge Gnome 
>without buying 9.3; it makes annoying system beeps when shutting 
>down/restarting and I find yast doesn't do what it says on the tin in 
>all cases - amongst other annoyances!
>
>I have disregarded Mandriva as I see them in a similar vein to Suse - 
>with understandably waning upgrade options for their free OS.
>
>The Ubuntu live cd crashes on my machine so I'm not too enamoured to try 
>installing it for real.
>
>Debian and slackware look far too scary in general with my limited 
>knowledge.
>
>I want a distribution that's not going to take a month of my life 
>getting a graphical desktop going then work out how to get samba to 
>share my printer - I want everything up and running the same day.
>
>So I kinda think that I should just go back to FC - I did like it after 
>all! But then I think that's boring?!
>
>I've eyed up gentoo (do you use that Phil?) but wonder if I'm going to 
>have lots of config problems that I don't have the time to fix - is it 
>like debian/slackware in scariness?
>
>Anybody else recommend anything else that's shiny?
>
>Steve
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Seeing as the Ubuntu Linux Live CDs were snapped up so fast by the 
visitors, I decided to have a look about how we can aquire another 
pack.  Ubuntu, it seems, will give away packs of CDs free to anyone who 
requests them from:
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/

May be something to consider when the next event comes around.

Dave