this is a very helpful and active list<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Brock Noland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brockn@gmail.com">brockn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Welcome!! I hope you find TC HUG a welcoming home!<br>
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Nathan England <<a href="mailto:nathan@paysonlinux.org">nathan@paysonlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello Hello,<br>
><br>
> I have recently found your LUG online while searching for a new LUG to<br>
> participate in. My local LUG has lost any resemblance to a LUG and I have<br>
> decided to look elsewhere. My interest in this particular LUG is based in the<br>
> fact that, though I personally live in .<a href="http://az.us" target="_blank">az.us</a> I have a lot of family in the<br>
> Twin Cities and my parents live in Forest Lakes.<br>
<br>
</div>Curious, what have they done? Are they having windows installfests? ;)<br>
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><br>
> I am a 32 year old PHP developer and LAMP administrator. I have been using<br>
> Linux since I got my first pc. My parents thought it good for me to learn how<br>
> to use a computer and bought me a Compaq Presario with Windows 3.1 and DOS 5<br>
> or 6 for my birthday. My elementary school used Apple's, so it became<br>
> immediately clear to me that there must be a variety of operating systems<br>
> available for a computer. So I hopped on yahoo and began looking through the<br>
> categories and found computers / operating systems and something new that had<br>
> just come about a couple months before called slackware! Not knowing what I<br>
> was doing, I downloaded a bunch of diskette images and rawrite, wrote all the<br>
> images to I believe 11 or 14 diskettes and never looked back...<br>
><br>
> Okay, not quite so easy. I think I made it through about half the disks, maybe<br>
> the a package and then I hit a bad diskette. So I had to reload windows from<br>
> my Presario recovery cds and download the images again and write them to some<br>
> new floppies. I don't think I slept at all that night, 14.4 modems were<br>
> awesome!!!<br>
><br>
> Since then things have changed a lot, thankfully! I have spent my years<br>
> tinkering around with Ubuntu, Fedora and *SUSE* in all its incarnations, but<br>
> used Slackware for most of those years. Eventually I switched to archlinux<br>
> about 6 years ago, but as of the last few years I have been managing my own<br>
> distro using my own package system. I prefer stability of most of the system<br>
> yet I want bleeding edge on some of it, such as kdevelop. But I don't like<br>
> having to upgrade a ton of stuff, just because a new version was released,<br>
> only so I can keep current with kdevelop and a few other apps.<br>
><br>
> I've never been much of a GNOME person. The early days had such horrific<br>
> memory problems that it put a sour taste in my mouth that even today I cannot<br>
> shake. GNOME 2 is great, I despise GNOME 3 and Unity, but I am very happy with<br>
> KDE 4.7.3.<br>
><br>
> I look forward to lots of questions and answers on this group, and many<br>
> interesting discussions. I am searching for a real "community" to be a part of<br>
> that is actually Linux oriented.<br>
><br>
> Nathan<br>
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