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 >