[Sussex] Brief introduction and Ubuntu question...

[Colin Tuckley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:

> I briefly met one of you guys (sorry didn't get a name so can't say who
> - fella with glasses and blond hair who was installing debian at about
> 3PM?!) at the BCP do in Worthing and being a Sussex yokel thought I'd
> sign up.

Welcome, I'm a Worthingite too. I think I remember you from the fair but we
were a trifle busy right at the end. Maybe we now have enough people down
here to think about an alternative/extra drinking session\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ LUG
meeting.

> I should briefly introduce myself.  I am a web
> developer / systems administrator for a company in Worthing.

Interesting, I'll be looking for something similar once my current contract
finishes.

> Been using Linux for about 5 years (started with RH6.2) and enjoying it
> enormously.  I always use Debian on servers now (with packages from
> backports.org or self-compiled bits) and at the moment I use Mandrake
> 10.1 on my laptop and desktop.  Mandrake is great, but I miss apt and
> debian's elegance and stability.

I'm a Debian person too. <g>

> ndiswrapper for my wireless card

Uggh! not a good way to go, very clutzy. Which Chipset does your wireless
card use?

Colin

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