Our first meeting of 2001 proved to be well attended and quite a few people did ask more questions than we could answer.   Nice to know that they are interested and wanted to come along to Blackwell's on Saturday afternoons so that they could sort out their problems.  About eighteen or twenty two of us were there and it felt more like fifty  :))

We would seem to have reached a happy situation where three of us have new or second user notebooks.  This is really good for getting people to understand that Linux is not just for servers and the internet but is also very good as a desktop system for everyday office work.   All of these notebooks are running on SuSE 7.0.   Very nice.  Craig showed the use of Windowmaker on his notebook and Paul Sims and myself were able to demonstrate KDE 2.   I was able to show Enlightenment in use on the demo PC that I use for this sort of occasion.   Craig was able to demo the use of minicom between two notebooks later on.

Sammy Redshaw was once again able to give up one of his Saturday afternoons to bring his PC over and ask for help with a networking problem.  His main issue seemed to be that he was using an MS Windows Linksys network card that doesn't like Linux or Linux people.  I did offer him another network card but he turned it down.  So, hopefully we can sort him out later on ?

It was at about two o'clock to two thirty that things livened up quite a bit.  A small crowd of interested folk arrived and began to ask the kind of questions that are normally asked in an every day engineering R&D project.  Things livened up over the following hour and some of us even had to think about things for a few seconds.

Let's hope that 2001 proves to be as good a year for our LUG meetings as they were last year :)   Hope we'll see you there soon ?

People who were there..........

Tony Crodwin          Charles Parker         Colin Sedwick         Paul Sims         Craig Andrews        Richard Ibbotson         Ibrahim Hujaleh     Robert Pumphrey            Grahame Waddington     David Wildgoose    Jerry Avis     Chris Shelton     Graham Hunter     Sammy Redshaw                        Stuart Stubbs            and  a few others as well.