"I'm not dead yet... I think I'll go for a walk..."

[Steve Grobe]

Philippe Landau wrote:

> volvoguy wrote:
>
>>>> Keep up the good works devs, let me know if I can help with anything
>>>> directly. If there's no super-tight deadline, it actually helps me
>>>> keep my mind off my aches and pains. :)
>>>
>>> do you also think these lists have lost some vitality ?
>>
>> Vitality - no, I don't think so. The overall feel of the group seems
>> to have changed since the early days though (and not necessarily in a
>> bad way). I think we all had that "new toy" feeling at first, and now
>> that we've (or I've)  been using for "regular work", the new toy
>> excitement has worn off a little bit. In it's place though, it's left
>> a feeling of pride and confidence in our project and I think that's a
>> much better state of mind. Toys wear out - communities grow. :o)
>
> true, there are more participants now.
> but do you realise me and Shawn were the only ones replying
> on a personal level ? that was a bit shocking for me at first.
> there seem to be more groupies now,
> reminding me of the pseudo-elitist attitude of old mac fanatics,
> but is there a community ? or ubuntu ?


Being a Mac fanatic and user I resemble that remark.  ;)  And that is 
ok.  Why because I haven't been as thrilled with an OS since my BeOS 
days.  I spent two years using BeOS then tried Linux for about a year.
When I got into digital photography I switched to a Mac, mainly because 
the tools are superior.  But; wait for it; I am so thrilled with Ubuntu 
that I am thinking about installing it on my iBook and doing a dual boot 
on my dual G5 tower.  Why?  Because Ubuntu seems to just work and I 
really like the "community".  I haven't run into such a friendly bunch 
of people since I started playing with deb based distros a year ago with 
Libranet.

I tip my hat to all of you for your efforts, and the results.  I now 
have 4 workstations at work running Ubuntu Warty and one laptop and one 
server running Ubuntu Hoary at home.  Hurrah, I'm sold!

So, call me a nut or fanatic, but call me a Ubuntu nut and fanatic.

Thanks again to the Ubuntu team, job well done!

SG, O.S.D.