Vi is nice if you want to escape... I personally like Emacs but have found I need to use vi for work and other things... like OpenWRT.

Welcome to the list. To all lurkers!

I wish more lurkers would "come out"!
I really did appreciate and enjoy your candid post regarding Mint!

I mean, we have a decent amount of people at meetings but really, it is nice to share and learn from each other.

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.

At the installfests you can find people working on different projects. One person was discussing his work on a compiler.

Right now, some of us are working on a TP-Link 3040 with OpenWRT to act as a web server for installs.

I also bring my Banana Pi in hopes of finding a moment to work on it.

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.

Please join us if you ever have the time!

This happens at UAT - Aug 2nd is the next one.

Of course, I understand Saturdays can also be a challenge.

As incentive, we often go out and break bread after installfests.

Depending on the occasion and location we may have a beer or drink.

Please join us if you can irl!!

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

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 well, and pick your favorite. I personally use JED which uses the emacs keys but is much lighter.

Brian

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.

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 my tastes. It was suggested on the Ars Technica boards (I'm
a moderator over there) that coming from Windows that I might find the
transition easier with Mint and they were right. Currently I'm
dual-booting Mint with Windows 8.1 but I spend most of my time in Mint
unless I'm playing a game.

I've flirted with Linux in the past but always seemed to get frustrated
with all the hurdles I seemed to run into with getting it all
configured. One of the reasons I love Mint so much is that it figured
out my hardware configuration on its own (including my printer!), not to
mention making it easy to install the nvidia drivers I needed. Not
having to do any basic configuration made it easy for me to explore the
things I wanted to check out on my own.

In reading up on my new OS one of the things that kept coming up was to
check out the local user groups. I found PLUG with a Google search and
signed up for the mailing lists that seemed pertinent. I hope to make it
to one of your meetings sometime but I work nights so it may be a while
before I'm able to do that. In the meantime I'm enjoying reading the
emails produced by the lists. I read them all even though most of the
stuff is way over my head but it's a good learning experience and
sometimes there's conversations I actually do understand!

I decided on some goals for my new Linux journey. In the near term I
want to learn the command line and vi.vi <http://vi.vi> seems an odd

text editor to me but I'm enjoying the challenge of learning it. The
command line is awesomely powerful and I'm having fun with it too. I got
a couple of books from Amazon that were highly rated to help me out. The
first is /The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction /by William E.
Shotts and the second is /Learning vi and the Vim Editors /by Arnold

Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb. Once I get through these I want
to install a more complicated distro (to me) like Arch or Gentoo. The
ultimate goal is to do Linux from Scratch but there's a lot of learning
for me before I get to that.

Anyway, thanks for being here and sharing your knowledge about all the
'nixes.

Fred Fifield

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