<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Vi is nice if you want to <b>esc</b>ape... I personally like Emacs but have found I need to use vi for work and other things... like OpenWRT. <br><br></div>Welcome to the list. To all lurkers!<br></div>
<div>I wish more lurkers would "come out"! <br>I really did appreciate and enjoy your candid post regarding Mint!</div><div><br>I mean, we have a decent amount of people at meetings but really, it is nice to share and learn from each other. <br>
<br>We have evening meetings but we also have installfests on Saturdays from 10-4 officially but it seems more like 9-5 unofficially unless Todd worked it out to be official. <br></div><div><br>At the installfests you can find people working on different projects. One person was discussing his work on a compiler. <br>
<br>Right now, some of us are working on a TP-Link 3040 with OpenWRT to act as a web server for installs.<br></div><div>I also bring my Banana Pi in hopes of finding a moment to work on it.<br></div><div><br>A lot of people bring their toys also, like Raspberry Pi and there is Big Blue Button - a collaboration video conferencing type tool. That, and we also assist people with installs. <br>
</div><div>Please join us if you ever have the time!<br></div><div>This happens at UAT - Aug 2nd is the next one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, I understand Saturdays can also be a challenge. <br><br>As incentive, we often go out and break bread after installfests. <br>
<br>Depending on the occasion and location we may have a beer or drink.<br><br></div><div>Please join us if you can irl!!<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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Definitely learn some vi because it will probably be on whatever system you play with. That being said, take a look at emacs as well, and pick your favorite. I personally use JED which uses the emacs keys but is much lighter.<br>
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Brian<div class=""><br>
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On 07/28/2014 04:37 PM, Fred Fifield wrote:<br>
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Hello!<br>
<br>
My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three<br>
weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface.<br>
<br>
I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and I've<br>
been loving it. I started with Ubuntu but there was too much weirdness<br>
in Unity for my tastes. It was suggested on the Ars Technica boards (I'm<br>
a moderator over there) that coming from Windows that I might find the<br>
transition easier with Mint and they were right. Currently I'm<br>
dual-booting Mint with Windows 8.1 but I spend most of my time in Mint<br>
unless I'm playing a game.<br>
<br>
I've flirted with Linux in the past but always seemed to get frustrated<br>
with all the hurdles I seemed to run into with getting it all<br>
configured. One of the reasons I love Mint so much is that it figured<br>
out my hardware configuration on its own (including my printer!), not to<br>
mention making it easy to install the nvidia drivers I needed. Not<br>
having to do any basic configuration made it easy for me to explore the<br>
things I wanted to check out on my own.<br>
<br>
In reading up on my new OS one of the things that kept coming up was to<br>
check out the local user groups. I found PLUG with a Google search and<br>
signed up for the mailing lists that seemed pertinent. I hope to make it<br>
to one of your meetings sometime but I work nights so it may be a while<br>
before I'm able to do that. In the meantime I'm enjoying reading the<br>
emails produced by the lists. I read them all even though most of the<br>
stuff is way over my head but it's a good learning experience and<br>
sometimes there's conversations I actually do understand!<br>
<br>
I decided on some goals for my new Linux journey. In the near term I<br></div></div>
want to learn the command line and <a href="http://vi.vi" target="_blank">vi.vi</a> <<a href="http://vi.vi" target="_blank">http://vi.vi</a>> seems an odd<div class=""><br>
text editor to me but I'm enjoying the challenge of learning it. The<br>
command line is awesomely powerful and I'm having fun with it too. I got<br>
a couple of books from Amazon that were highly rated to help me out. The<br></div>
first is /The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction /by William E.<br>
Shotts and the second is /Learning vi and the Vim Editors /by Arnold<div class=""><br>
Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb. Once I get through these I want<br>
to install a more complicated distro (to me) like Arch or Gentoo. The<br>
ultimate goal is to do Linux from Scratch but there's a lot of learning<br>
for me before I get to that.<br>
<br>
Anyway, thanks for being here and sharing your knowledge about all the<br>
'nixes.<br>
<br>
<br>
Fred Fifield<br>
<br>
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