[Westwales] intro

[Jonathan West]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Dick Bain wrote:

> lo peeps

Hi and welcome Dick

> Dick Bain here laggard and Linux advocate
> Current distros:
> IpCop on P75 96Ram 1Gb hdd and external modem

Found IpCop really slow on a similar machine so changed to Smoothwall and
after editing the home page to cut out the animated graphics goes pretty
quick.

> Knoppix/Debian

Debian on my testing machine

> Fedora CORE1

Expecting to upgrade my RH7.2 desktop box to CORE2 in a few days

> and Windows 98

Hmmm.. rings a bell, think me dad might use something like that but it
keeps crashing :-) Nearly persuaded him to upgrade to LINUX

> I am sirs, in short, an inveterate dabbler and idiot 1st Class cos I
> will not RTFM just hit out radomly in hope of landing somewhere safe
>

You should fit in really well here :-)

Cheers
Jon

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