[Sussex] newbie

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

Adam,

Welcome to the list!  Not sure who else is around atm, most are probably
commuting home from work.  I'm in the IT room at university
(Gloucestershire, but I'm originally from Crawley!).

You've got quite a head start on me, I first got my hands on a SUSe box when
I was 17, about 4 yrs ago, and I've been playing with it on and off since.

I'm now using Open Office for all my college work and they think it's kinda
wierd that I'm not using M$ kit, "But surely you can't know how to use
_that_ and office??!" - "umm, yup, they really are ever so similar, why
don't you have a go?" - "Oh no, I couldn't, II wouldn't know where to
start!"

It's this kinda mentality I'm hoping to break.  Xandros has been the subject
of conversation recently, and with "easy (-ier)" installs becoming the
standard, hopefully linux can create a world without dominiation by Mr.
Gates...

anyway, I've started rambling, so welcome anyways and feel free to ask
questions. I'm certainly not an expert, but some of the guys here are!

HTH,

Matt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Smith [mailto:adamjsmith at clara.co.uk]
>Sent: 25 November 2002 17:48
>To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Sussex] newbie
>
>
>Hi, I'm a new member to the list and I've been told it's a 
>good idea to introduce myself.
>
>I'm 16 years old and from Eastbourne.  Currently studying 
>Maths, Economics, Computing and German at Park College, 
>Eastbourne.  I'm currently running Gentoo 1.4rc1 on my main 
>box - an Athlon XP1600 AROIA @ 1.837 (hopefully more when I 
>install my watercooling), 256mb PC2700 Crucial and an 80gb 'cuda IV.  
>
>I'm relatively new to linux.  I was tied to Bill's apron 
>strings until around a month ago when I installed Gentoo 
>linux.  Before then I had tried Mandrake, Redhat and Suse but 
>found the experience unfulfilling on my workstation machine - 
>however I did use Redhat for a while on a P450 running Apache, 
>PHP and FTP.  But then I tried Gentoo...  
>I performed the install with very limited experience of Linux, 
>and it took a while on my 56k connection even with the Stage 3 
>install but I got there in the end.  I then proceeded to 
>install fluxbox which beats the Windows UI hands down for 
>usability. So far I've found software for everything that I 
>need.  Most programs I have found to be better than their 
>Windows counterparts, and with the exception of OpenOffice 
>which for some reason is terribly slow on my machine, 
>everything else has been great.  The knowledge I gained from 
>the Gentoo install is, in my opinion, far better than that 
>which I could have learned from a lifetime of 'playing' with Redhat.
>
>So far I'm loving Linux, I've actually been able to sell/give 
>away most of my other boxes as for some reason I no longer 
>need them.  I first decided to try linux after installing 
>Smoothwall.  I was so impressed by the way it could operate 
>router and firewall functions with perfect reliability whilst 
>making frugal use of resources.
>
>I'm also new to mailing lists, so please bear with me if I 
>make an idiot of myself.
>
>If you're still reading by this point, thanks.
>Adam Smith
>
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