this is a very helpful and active list On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Brock Noland <brockn at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Welcome!! I hope you find TC HUG a welcoming home! > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> > wrote: > > > > Hello Hello, > > > > I have recently found your LUG online while searching for a new LUG to > > participate in. My local LUG has lost any resemblance to a LUG and I have > > decided to look elsewhere. My interest in this particular LUG is based > in the > > fact that, though I personally live in .az.us I have a lot of family in > the > > Twin Cities and my parents live in Forest Lakes. > > Curious, what have they done? Are they having windows installfests? ;) > > > > > I am a 32 year old PHP developer and LAMP administrator. I have been > using > > Linux since I got my first pc. My parents thought it good for me to > learn how > > to use a computer and bought me a Compaq Presario with Windows 3.1 and > DOS 5 > > or 6 for my birthday. My elementary school used Apple's, so it became > > immediately clear to me that there must be a variety of operating systems > > available for a computer. So I hopped on yahoo and began looking through > the > > categories and found computers / operating systems and something new > that had > > just come about a couple months before called slackware! Not knowing > what I > > was doing, I downloaded a bunch of diskette images and rawrite, wrote > all the > > images to I believe 11 or 14 diskettes and never looked back... > > > > Okay, not quite so easy. I think I made it through about half the disks, > maybe > > the a package and then I hit a bad diskette. So I had to reload windows > from > > my Presario recovery cds and download the images again and write them to > some > > new floppies. I don't think I slept at all that night, 14.4 modems were > > awesome!!! > > > > Since then things have changed a lot, thankfully! I have spent my years > > tinkering around with Ubuntu, Fedora and *SUSE* in all its incarnations, > but > > used Slackware for most of those years. Eventually I switched to > archlinux > > about 6 years ago, but as of the last few years I have been managing my > own > > distro using my own package system. I prefer stability of most of the > system > > yet I want bleeding edge on some of it, such as kdevelop. But I don't > like > > having to upgrade a ton of stuff, just because a new version was > released, > > only so I can keep current with kdevelop and a few other apps. > > > > I've never been much of a GNOME person. The early days had such horrific > > memory problems that it put a sour taste in my mouth that even today I > cannot > > shake. GNOME 2 is great, I despise GNOME 3 and Unity, but I am very > happy with > > KDE 4.7.3. > > > > I look forward to lots of questions and answers on this group, and many > > interesting discussions. I am searching for a real "community" to be a > part of > > that is actually Linux oriented. > > > > Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111112/1188ab22/attachment.html>