[aclug-L] Re: Debian is great!

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I moved my win2k to another monitor and it crashed due to the wrong
refresh rate for the monitor.  Booting into safe mode didn't give me the
option to select a pnp monitor.  It crashed again with an insteresting
strobe effect and so now the only computers that I have available to use
are linux,  I have the choice between Debian (my favorite), RedHat (the
old stand-by), and the 2 Suse workstations.  I am finding out that I
really don't need windows very much.  Its just that the jobs that I am
applying for want someone who is very familiar with windows and windows
applications.  It would probably be best if I emailed them my resume
from a windows computer, but it is sooo much more fun being just a
little bit different than the norm.  

I am hoping to hear about using multimedia applications in linux soon. 
(Hint-hint)  ~Anne

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:48, jlweaver wrote:
> 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:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Main Email back up! I do now exist again on the net. Yay, and Kmail 1.6 (so=
> >>=20
> >>hopefully no more quoted-printable errors....)=20
> >>
> >>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)
> >>
> >>
> >>And so this doesn't happen again, the last time we created a supply & deman=
> >>d,=20
> >>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)
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>I highly suggest that we chose another topic at each meeting for the next=20
> >>time.=20
> >>
> >>James L.
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