[aclug-L] Re: Debian is great!

[jlweaver <jlweaver@xxxxxxx>]

I think Anne's idea about choosing the topic for the next meeting at 
this months meeting to be the best idea I have heard lately.  It would 
give the presenter time to prepare a thoughtfull presentation instead of 
standing up and winging it as several have done..  I, like Anne, am 
trying to learn more about Linux and Linux applications. 
================================ ~Larry
Anne McCadden wrote:
>Welcome back James, we were wondering what happened with you.  I really
>want the group to stay together and working toward a common goal,
>learning more about linux.  Your comtributions and ideas are greatly
>valued as well as John Gorzen's.  I am coming from a windows background
>and trying to learning more about linux, but I many times feel that I
>don't know enough about any linux topics to have any relivant
>contribution for a presentation.  I'm just trying to learn something new
>everyday about networking (either with windows 2k or
>linux/apache/mysql).  If I can accomplish my goal of learning more about
>linux with the group, then I will stay, otherwise I will have to move
>on.  
>~Anne
>
>On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:23, James Lancaster wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:54 pm, Anne McCadden wrote:
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>>>I agree, I want to learn more about Debian.  When my Knoppix install
>>>went 'south', then I had some help to install Debian with gnome.  I like
>>>Debian so much that now I want to format the RedHat install and put
>>>Debian with KDE on that computer.  The Debian install is different than
>>>RedHat or Suse, but Debian runs great and seems to have more to offer
>>>than the other distros.  Debian is the main computer that I use now and
>>>I also have a web/database server running debian.  Now I just need to
>>>figure out how to get seti to run on debian and the switch-over will be
>>>finialized.
>>>
>>>The only reason why I stayed with RedHat as long as I did is because I
>>>know more about how it works, I have a couple of books about RedHat, and
>>>I was able to use Synaptic (a GUI interface for debian apt-get) to get
>>>my RedHat updates.  I was getting really tired of the hassles from
>>>RedHat to get updates.  All the distros work somewhat the same, but just
>>>have a few different features.  At least consumers get a choice as to
>>>how they want their OS to be.  ~Anne
>>>
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>>Main Email back up! I do now exist again on the net. Yay, and Kmail 1.6 (so=
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>>I will vote for a presentation on debian as well. I will also add the=20
>>suggestion that it be compared & contrasted to 2 or 3 different distros=20
>>because most of the others are derivatives from one of these 4, Redhat,=20
>>Gentoo, and Slackware. (concentrating on what makes debian good of course)
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>>And so this doesn't happen again, the last time we created a supply & deman=
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>>we had (feel free to add to this):
>>Supply (people who could and would be willing to present on):
>>Sane (scanners) Jeff=20
>>IPcop Jeff
>>Java Clint
>>Xemacs Clint
>>Eclipse Clint
>>SDL Programming: Jared
>>Video Stuff: James
>>Website: Dale, Tom
>>XFree86: Tom W
>>LDAP: James
>>(whatever John Goerzen could :) )
>>(already done CD/DVD burning)
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>>Demand:
>>CD Burning
>>Video playing
>>Compiling Programs
>>Make systems
>>Package Building (rpms, ebuilds, debs)
>>Clusters (Knoppix, OpenMosix)
>>Legal Issues
>>Website
>>Xfree
>>Grapics (xfig, gimp, drawing)
>>SANE
>>qmail
>>Eclipse
>>Wireless LANs
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>>I highly suggest that we chose another topic at each meeting for the next=20
>>time.=20
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>>James L.
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