[Sussex] Just introducing myself: Frances

[John D.]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:32 +0100, Fleming, Frances wrote:
> 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.

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Welcome to the SLUG Frances.

Not sure if I'm gonna make the moot on thursday though. I consider
myself the "SLUG nugget", mainly because my linux knowledge is rather
less that the majority of the members ("You know who you are" he said,
conspiritorially :-P ).

I'm not a "technical type", but have managed to run various distro's.
Amongst them, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian (and a hard drive install of
Knoppix), settling currently on Gentoo.

The average level's of linux know how, means that there's not much that
"fazes" the list, and usually there's someone who can point you in the
right direction for virtually any linux issues that may arise.

regards

John D.