Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-29 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and I've been loving it. I started

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-29 Thread der.hans
Am 28. Jul, 2014 schwätzte Fred Fifield so: moin moin Fred, Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. Wilkommen! I hope we will see you at some events as well. Our regular presentation

Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Fred Fifield
Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and I've been loving it. I started with Ubuntu but there was too much weirdness in Unity for

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Havens
welcome to the group. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Fred Fifield ffifi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
Indeed, welcome Fred! -mb On 07/28/2014 04:37 PM, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread techlists
Hi Fred! Welcome!! On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface.  I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and I've been loving it. I

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread trent shipley
EMACS Maybe Eclipse. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:14 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Hi Fred! Welcome!! On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Phil Waclawski
I love vim myself. It has a bit of a learning cliff, but the view towards the top is great :) And we do offer Linux OS classes at Mesa Community College (I'm one of the faculty) if you are interested. Phil W On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Saul Acalinas s...@acalinas.com wrote: From one

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Matt Graham
On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote: I decided on some goals for my new Linux journey. In the near term I want to learn the command line and vi. vi seems an odd text editor to me but I'm enjoying the challenge of learning it. ISTR something from the very early days of Unix where someone

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Brian Cluff
Welcome to the list, and I hope to see you some time at one of the meeting. Feel free to ask the list about any problems you might run into in your new adventure. Definitely learn some vi because it will probably be on whatever system you play with. That being said, take a look at emacs as