[Sussex] Just introducing myself: Frances

[Fleming, Frances]

Hi all!

Hope everyone had a good Easter break.

I've just found out about SLUG and am looking forward to joining in :)

I've been casually using Linux since about August 2004 and had been
reading up about GNU/Linux/Open Source since Red Hat 9 came out, and
liking what I saw.

I've installed, one at a time on my tiny 10GB hard drive: Red Hat 9
(great), Mandrake (failed), Lindows (too sparse), Zandros (failed), SuSE
9.0 Pro (brilliant) and SuSE 9.2 Pro (even more brilliant). The SuSE
distros were boxed sets with full manuals, picked up from the Linux User
and Developer stand at the last couple of London Expos - did anyone from
SLUG go at all? I went both days each time. Incidentally, the helicopter
sim was super cool :)

For live distros I've tried SuSE Desktop and Dyne:bolic.

I can get on fine with VI and am interested in getting to grips with CLI
- searching and maintenance and stuff. I ran into quite a lot of
problems with a previous install, having tried to cram too much on :(

My current time investment primarily goes into learning Umbrello (data
modelling), Kivio (diagramming), Apache, MySQL and PHP, with the GIMP,
Karbon14 and Blender coming close second and Open Office Writer/Calc
close third. I'd also like to get into Scribus.

At work I'm a full time developer in - sorry ;-] - ASP, MS IIS web
server and MS SQL Server database, with the Select data modelling tool
and Visio diagrammer. I'll soon be plunging into ASP.NET and XML.

Well, see you at the Moot on Thursday.


Best regards,
Frances Fleming


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