Welcome aboard! :-)
I guess you found us at the web site:
http://canterbury.lug.net.nz/ If for some reason you didn't then I refer you
check out this site for any further details you may need and a map of where
the meeting hall is.
cheers,
Nick Elder
fellow CLUG list member
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm new to the list... and i'm new to New Zealand too... ;)
>
> I'm a guy who's here on holyday and would like to meet some linux
> interested people.
>
> Some background:
> The first time I installed/used linux was back in 1995, I heard of linux
> on some magazine/sites and one day, while strolling, my eye was catched
> by a book with a CD included, it was a slackware distro (can't remember
> the version); I spent that night reading the manual and installing
> the system, not an easy task due to the lack of support of extended
> partition resize by the FIPS (if don't get it wrong) util (I had to
> defrag and then change the partition table manually with a sector editor
> to obtain the two needed extra partition). When I finally booted the
> system it was "love" at first sight (also because playing DOOM in a
> 320x200 window in X was cool)... the following afternoon
> i was staring amazed at my monitor while compiling the kernel. A lot of
> time has passed and I now prefer the "roll my own" approach to
> linux (Debian is my preferred official linux distro).
>
> I'm sorry to "pollute" the list with this *semi* personal topic, but i
> thought it was polite to introduce myself and ask for acceptance instead
> of just coming at the meeting and saying "HI" (besides, I'm of the shy
> kind).
