Welcome to the TCLUG.

Slackware was my first distro as well.


On 11/11/2011 5:11 PM, Nathan England 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.
>
> 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
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