Re: [SLUG] Slug Newbie here...

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 05:01:35 EST


On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:23, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Justin Prior wrote:
> > Greattings All,
> >
> > I am an intermeidate/beginner Linux user. I am completely self
> > taught and have installed about every distro you can name (Gentoo,
> > Debian (and variants), Slackware (and variants), Mandrake, Red Hat,
> > Fedora, Suse, etc) and my 2 PCs (one IBM 300PL and an Athlon 2400
> > system I built myself). I can do a fair amount of things from the
> > command line (edit files, file management). To get to the point, I
> > want to come to a meeting but feel that I would be overwhlemed with
> > technical jargon and be shunned. Maybe I
>
> Hi Justin!
>
> I don't know much either, less than you. Come to the meeting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>

Justin, we look forward to meeting you! In the time I've been with SLUG, I
can say from witness, we're a great bunch of helpful scholars, mentors, and
ordinary people. That is, if you don't understand something, just be polite
and ask, and most times, if we can't answer it verbally, people will flock to
you for assistance. Our locations gather monthly. Most of us have jobs in
the industry, yet we follow-up those long arduous days of work with two to
three hours of more Linux-speak (and sometimes a late dinner bonus too :).
Why? Because we love to help people and enjoy our craft, that's why. Linux
offers us more than an alternative OS. It offers us a direct link to
"free"dom. We're here to help release those imprisoned from choice and give
them the power to choose--even if Linux isn't for you. I feel you will have
some laughs, learn lots about a great OS, and hopefully make some friends at
our meetings. I know I already have many times over.

/mario

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