Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 05/11/10 21:53, StarLion wrote: Since then, I've gone through two laptops and three tower PCs, using Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Wolvix, and then finally my current favoured distro Arch. I'm an Arch user too :) I've broken systems more than once with my incessant experimenting

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread Natalie Hooper
but so far only my younger brother (A recent Ubuntu to Arch convert) and my mother (Who uses Vinux - Ubuntu for the Visually Impaired) have adopted the system. I think converting two people is quite an achievement ;-) If you don't mind, can you tell me a little bit more about Vinux? How

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-06 Thread StarLion
On 6 November 2010 10:03, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote: If you don't mind, can you tell me a little bit more about Vinux? How quickly/easily or not your mother adapted to it? Can she maintain her computer herself or is it helpful to her to have you on hand (basically, is

[Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-05 Thread StarLion
I'm guessing by the looks of the members list, I'm the only one living down this way. I'm not entirely new to Linux, having first found it when I tried Fedora 10 just after its release and then got lost in the live environment. The then-current Ubuntu saved me from just giving up as so many have

Re: [Dorset] Hi all from Weymouth

2010-11-05 Thread Simon P Smith
On 05/11/2010 21:53, StarLion wrote: I'm guessing by the looks of the members list, I'm the only one living down this way. You have electricity down there now? I'm not entirely new to Linux, having first found it when I tried Fedora 10 just after its release and then got lost in the live