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Thanks Barry,

I hope that John will remain to stay a happy user
or perhaps even an active contributor.

Excellent work!


2011/5/21 Barry Drake <b.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I'm going to have to give apologies for tonight's meeting.  Sorry about
> that.  Not a lot to report except the following I received from someone
> I got up and running with 10.10.
>
> Begin quote:
> "I have been a Ubuntu 10.10 user for the past 3 months and have been
> asked to pass on a few words on my initial reactions to working with
> this operating system.
>
> Until earlier this year I had not heard of Ubuntu and I was also a
> total Linux virgin. I had worked in a design studio for many years
> and had always used Apple Mac's, although I had also used, fairly
> extensively, PC's with Windows. For preference Mac systems have
> always been favourite. So it was a very pleasant surprise to find
> that when I had an initial look at the Ubuntu home page it gave an
> immediate feeling of working in the Mac environment. It was very user
> friendly and providing you have had previous experience using either
> a Mac or PC you would have no problem in negotiating the various
> applications in the drop down menus they are very intuitive. Open
> Office Word Processor I found to be the equal of Microsoft Word,
> although having said that, I never have been able to utilise the full
> facilities of Word and neither have I at the time of writing gone too
> deeply into Open Office, but the basic word processing side is very
> simple. Other great software that came with 10.10: Disc Burner, Movie
> Player, Video Editor, Sound Recorder, Spreadsheet, Presentation,
> Photo Manager, Scanner, Drawing/Graphics programme, plus usual games
> and other bits and pieces. All have been easy to use and certainly
> equal to their Microsoft counterparts.
>
> Initial set-up of Ubuntu I found difficult as I tried to load the
> system onto an external hard drive whilst still keeping Windows as
> the main operating system on the internal hard drive. It didn't seem
> to like being a sub-system and left me with the error message 'No
> such device GRUB RESCUE' on my screen. I didn't understand the
> principles of Grub Rescue so after some days of hair pulling and
> knashing teeth I decided that since my main reason for loading Ubuntu
> was to use it to run a web/blog (hosting company's seem to prefer
> Linux as the operating system, generally charging a smaller monthly
> subscription if you use Linux than Windows) then I would do away with
> Windows entirely and use Ubuntu on my main hard drive and as my main
> operating system. Fortunately I had purchased a new 'second hand'
> computer specifically for the purpose and so whilst I had also
> purchased additional Microsoft and other software which would be
> redundant, the machine had nothing of importance that I didn't mind
> losing. Reformatting the hard drive and loading from there was easy,
> everything being done remotely from the installation wizard and have
> had no problems since. It appears to be very stable and does
> everything that I could get from a PC and an added bonus is that I
> have found that by operating Ubuntu on my computer it is faster than
> it was when loaded with Windows. And of course the big, big bonus is
> that all the software is totally free! I haven't missed Windows at
> all during these past 3 months.
>
> One little niggle I do have is the amount of upgrades that seem to
> automatically download, perhaps this is one of the downsides to
> having community based programming with so many different people
> involved in the process. On the plus side I have to give a big thumbs
> up to the help that you can receive from the very friendly and
> helpful members of the Ubuntu community, thanks to Barry in my case
> for all his help and advice.
>
> Congratulations to all who have worked on the programme and look
> forward to seeing the latest Natty Narwhal 11.04 upgrade which is
> supposed to be very exciting, although you apparently will need an
> accelerated 3d graphics chipset to obtain full functionality so
> probably won't help in my case."  From John Rudland.
>
> End quote.
>
> Regards,                Barry
>
>
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Keimpe de Jong
(UndiFineD)