[wellylug] Re: Formalising WellyLUG - revisited

[Tim Nicholas]

On 01/28/04 11:33, Tony Booth wrote:
> Sorry to reopen a tedious discussion that appeared nearly closed, but I
> feel quite strongly that formalisation is not needed, and I think
> discussion at the February meeting will not achieve clarity.  So here
> goes...
> 

[snip]

I think the parent post sums up my feelings on the subject very well. 
All the issues which the formalisation is intended to address can be 
addressed more directly through discussion of those issues.

> 
> P.S. Getting back on topic for this list, I just replaced my last copy
> of Windows with Linux.  I'm running Debian stable with KDE, and with
> unstable versions of Mozilla and OpenOffice.  That it even works with
> stable/unstable packages running together amazes me.
> 

As someone else has mentioned, you might want to look at www.backports.org
It's a very nice way of having some important packages more up to date. 
I installed postfix 2.0 from it only last night.

> I've been impressed with the speed (it's only a Pentium 733 with 128Mb
> of RAM), HD use (less than 1GB!) and hardware compatibility (only the TV
> card is unsupported and I could fix that with a kernel recompile).  
> 

Having almost always used debian, I've been shocked several times by the 
space used in a basic install of distros like mandrake.

Tim


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