[Ubuntu-be] Late introduction ...

[jean7491]

Hello Andy,

Thanks for your presentation!
And for sure welcome (back) ... in the group of active members!
-- 
Jean
/Ubuntu Belgium Events Team/


Andy Airey a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may know I've been around on this mailing list for a
> while (late 2007) ... Though I never found the time to actively
> communicate/help out with you guys and thus never made an official
> introduction to the mailing list. I did follow the mailinglist
> whenever I could.
>
> So here goes ...
>
> I'm 21 years old and I live near Mechelen. I study Applied Informatics
> ("Toegepaste Informatica") at the Leuven University College (KHLeuven
> - former REGA)[2]. I used to be in the steering committee of several
> student organisations up till now (so that's why I have more spare
> time). More info about my interests on facebook[2] or linkedin[3].
>
> Some history of my linux usage:
>
> I first started with Ubuntu (6.10) in april 2007, just before Feisty
> (7.04), they had some free CD's at school so I tried the live CD of
> Ubuntu 6.10 on my home PC (Dell inspiron 2100 or so). I did not like
> the loading times so a bit later I tried the 7.04 live CD on my home
> made PC. I quite liked it so I went with a dual boot together with XP.
>
> The first year I was mainly just customising (Beryl just came out :P -
> more into minimal now ... ) and trying some basic commands we would
> also learn at school (grep, cut, du, ...). But it was also fun getting
> flash to work on AMD64 and my wireless card through ndiswrapper :P And
> you know, the basic fiddling around and discovering new stuff.
> I started to get the hang of it and decided to become a support point
> to share this wonderful feeling of using free software which just
> works terrificly. This is also the point where I joined the mailing list.
>
> Later in february 2008, I got some new hardware (quadcore, 4GB ram,
> ...) and was running 7.10. As time went on I only needed Windows for
> gaming and MS Office (I sometimes program in VBA for some company).
> I was waiting 'till april 2008 for the LTS release to make a complete
> switch (well, leaving Windows on it for some games but I hardly boot
> in Windows, only when I have some friends around to game with :P). Now
> I run MS Office in virtualbox and have no need for Windows anymore as
> a workstation.
>
> So now I'm still running 8.04 LTS, and Xubuntu 8.04 LTS on my laptop
> (which I'm writing from right now). And of course I also converted
> some friends to Ubuntu :)
>
> So that's it, I'll try and share my opinion in the mailings and on
> #ubuntu-be more often, and try and visit the events ubuntu-be will be
> attending.
> I'm more like setting my status from Passive -> Active then new to
> this mailinglist, so no need to say welcome (maybe welcome back is
> more in it's place).
>
> If you read this, thanks for your time :P
>
>
> Andy Airey
>
> [1] http://www.leuvenuniversitycollege.be/
> [2] http://www.facebook.com/andy.airey
> [3] http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyairey


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