[olug] New to the OLUG List
Charles Bird
thebirdman at operamail.com
Sat May 28 21:39:11 UTC 2005
welcome...looks like we have something in common besides
linux, world domination, well, I've been working on
mastering the 3rd dimension, in fact, I have a 5 point plan
for this...after OLUG meetings there is sig beer and if u
and i are there then I'd be more than happy to tell u all
about it. =D
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Steele" <eumario at trilake.net>
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] New to the OLUG List
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:24:33 -0500
>
> Hello one and all,
>
> I'm Mario Steele, and I'm a recovering Windows user for 3
months.
> I've played with Linux many times before, but never fully
ran on
> Linux till 3 months ago when a friend sent me a copy of
SuSE Linux
> 9.2 Pro. Ever since, I've been running on Linux, and
enjoying
> every minute of it. I figured the next logical step, was
to begin
> plans for world domination, but since that fell threw, I
googled
> for local Linux User groups, and stumbled apon OLUG.
>
> I'm glad to see there are Linux User Groups here in
Omaha, and hope
> to learn more about the group, and Linux in equal time.
Oh yea, I
> guess this thing is suppose to have a little bit about
myself.
> Alright, I guess, if you insist. I've been a General
computer geek
> for about 7 years, dealt with all versions of Windows,
each one
> more crappier then the last. My first few Linux Distro's
was given
> to me by a friend, which was good old Red Hat 5.2, Corel
Linux, and
> pukish FreeBSD. (Pukish, cause I could never get the
thing to
> install.)
>
> I'm surprised at the advancements that Linux has
undercome, since
> thoes early days, and slightly dis-appointed in some of
the
> Commercial Distributors of Hardware, for not supporting
certian
> devices. *grumbles at ATI for not supporting Radeon IGP
320M* In
> the past three months since Linux has been my home OS,
I've been
> switching between Fedora Core 3, SuSE Pro 9.2 and 9.3.
I'm
> currently, however, on 9.2, since 9.3 has rendered my
Video card
> prone to freezing up my entire system, whenever I attempt
to run a
> Full Screen OpenGL App.
>
> I don't know everything about computers, and I don't know
> everything about Linux, but I'm steadly learning, and
will hope to
> learn more about Linux from thoes in the group, as well
as with my
> own trials and trivialations.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Mario Steele
> Attaining World Domination, one byte at a time.
> http://www.trilake.net
> http://enchantedblade.trilake.net
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