<html><body> <font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">Great
to see some action here, I wish we could breathe some life back into
ErieLug. I use Linux for nearly everything, all the stuff an average
computer user does( E-mail, web, typing and printing
documents......ect...) The last year or so I've gotten heavy into the
Gimp, I've also been looking into using my box to program PicMicro
computers. My girlfriend and I have seperate computers, she dual boots
with Virus98, and uses Linux 95% of the time. I dual boot with
Windoze2000 solely to run one complicated program and the entire
99.999999% of my life is Linux. I learned long ago that dual
booting works best with seperate harddrives, I've set some newcomers up
that way as well and just love they're reaction when I use the Linux
drive to save all their data from the lesser O.S. before I format and
reload it. I was a charter member of ErieLug, I really hope there is a
future for it. Tom<br> <br>Tom's AutoQuote: "You have moved your Mouse, Windows will now Reboot"<br><br></font> <font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br><br>--- roger <rmail.daemon@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>From: roger <rmail.daemon@gmail.com><br>Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:37:40 -0400<br>To: wplug-erie@wplug.org<br>Subject: Re: [wplug-erie] What do you use Linux for?<br><br>First, Grey thanks for asking the 'right' question; you must be good<br>at parties. Now we can get to know each other, in some sense.<br><br>As to Linux, I began as a MAC user. When I went to grad school (math)<br>the department was predominately UNIX (Dec and Sun). Most of the grad<br>offices has pcs with windoze 95, my initial migration to linux was for<br>philosophical reasons. Open source embraces a similar philosophical<br>stance with academic research (standing on the shoulders of giants,<br>don't reinvent the wheel, etc...).<br><br>I have in more recent years come to dislike 'the enemy' for their<br>ruthless tactics, limitless arrogance, and what the future of<br>computing looks like if they continue to dictate to the government<br>(digital rights etc...) See, there I am mono logging... (sorry)<br><br>I exclusively use linux, on several different desktops; no exotic<br>hardware - just random parts tossed together. Grey, I will follow<br>your lead and stay away from the distro discussion. I suppose we can<br>save that discussion until we have beer glasses separating us<br>(however, i am interested in hearing some reactions to different<br>distros).<br><br>Finally, i use linux for:<br>* Math research (xppaut, AUTO, matlab, maple [last two not open source])<br>* LaTeX ( i use latex for any printed materials; letters - papers)<br>* emacs user - i realize this is arguably more inflammatory than the<br>distro issue<br>* Web work (html, php, some mySQL)<br>* Learning, breaking and learning some more<br>* Admin a Server at work (soon to expand this role).<br>* Programming (not that much recently, some C++ and Perl).<br>* All the day to day routine: email, web browser<br>* For playing: I use gimp - i have never been interested in gaming<br>* I largely work from the command prompt<br><br><br>Who is next?<br><br>roger<br><br><br>-- <br>#! /usr/bashing<br># Roger Griffiths<br># Erie, PA<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug-erie mailing list<br>wplug-erie@wplug.org<br>http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug-erie<br></font><br> <br><hr>Get your FREE, LinuxWaves.com Email Now! --> http://www.LinuxWaves.com
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