[Sussex] Newbie!

[John English]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D." <john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk>

> Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhh! Not another John?

Tell me about it! Mind you - try going through Checkpoint Charlie at the 
height of the Cold War with my name to really wish you were called something 
else ("Yes, we know you are English, but what is your name?").

> Anyway, if John English is getting round to migration (or already 
> installed something as dual-boot???) go for familiarity to start with. 
> Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and email work exactly the same under 
> windies as well as linux (well both apps have since I've been using them, 
> with gentoo, mandriva, SuSE, etc etc).

Currently on dual-boot WinXP/Red Hat 9 and have been using Firefox as my 
browser for ages. Didn't switch to Thunderbird back then as the version at 
the time (0.7) didn't seem to be capable of supporting Wanadoo's 
idiosyncratic way of providing multiple email addresses. Current Thunderbird 
however does but I just haven't got around to making the switch (mostly 
because of the need to transfer elaborate mail filters).

> Oh, and welcome John English.

Thankyou!

> If you want a few newbie type links then let me know, I've tried most of 
> them.

Always happy to have new sources of info, though time to follow things up is 
often limited!

> Plus you can get a free subscription to "Tux Magazine".

How?

Thanks for the response - must now dash off to do a mound of OU coursework 
(assignment due in in a week and I've hardly started. Aaaaargh!)

John