[LBo] Intros, etc.

[Tim Alexander]

You'll definately want to try xubuntu then. XFCE desktop, and runs
pretty well on my 286.

On 10/13/06, Lonnie Mullenix <buckshot at scicable.com> wrote:
> WOW.
>
> What a wonder group of new-to-the-list people we have.
>
> For me, you see my name and one of my nick's in the headers.  I have
> been playing with Linux for 5 or 6 years now, and have been MS free for
> most of the last three or more years, at home that is.
>
> Have been playing with computers, on and off, for the last 25-26 years
> and have been making a living with them about 7 of the last 14 years.
> Still work in an MS shop, as I don't have quite as much freedom of
> choice there as I do here.
>
> I have been with a couple of the people who started this list since
> quite some time before it came to be.  The first Linux distro that I got
> on line with was Red Hat 5.1.  I have installed several since that time,
> and I have used Debian since Potato, SuSE and am presently using x86_64
> Gentoo along with four installs of Debian.
>
> I have used KNOPPIX on numerous occasions to get windows installs up and
> working.  It often amazes me how much better Linux is at hardware
> detection than windows.  Kind of fun to throw the LiveCD into a win box,
> get on line and download the needed drivers for the nic or modem, that
> windows can't deal with.
>
> Still consider myself a newbie, but on occasion, I have been know to be
> of some help.
>
> As for the coming class, I have been giving some serious thought to
> trying to set up Ubuntu on an old laptop that I have.  It has been
> running Debian since I dumped Win95 off it, and has been a very solid
> little machine, all-be-it, a little slow, P133 maxed out with 64 meg of
> ram.
>
> Will be a lot of fun, and am really looking forward to getting to know
> you and learn even more about Linux.
>
> Lonnie
>
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> Running Gentoo and
> Debian, enjoying the
> MS free life on the
> internet.
>
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