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i All, In the same vein I ought to (belatedly) introduce myself. As you've no doubt noticed previously I'm a newbie too, having recently gone dual-boot with Mandrake 9.0 and Windows 2000. Not being as intelligent as Andrew <g> I just jumped straight in with both feet. I'm actually from South Wales (yes I know people like the Gas Board lump Wales and South West England together ;o)). However not having tracked down the South Wales LUG I came across your friendly group and decided to stick around. I have to say everyone has been nothing but helpful and friendly easing my way into the world of Open Source with the minimum of hassles! :)) Mind you .. Xine still won't play DVDs <grumblethumpmutter> ;) Kind regards, Julian PS.. Sorry I know I sent a copy of this from the wrong addy... It's past my bedtime <grin> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 19:31, Neil Williams wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2003 12:49 pm, Andrew Hoskin wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am Andrew and I am a newbie from Cornwall just taking time to say > > hello and to check outgoing mail is working. > > Welcome to the list! > > > this morning decided to take the plunge and downloaded and installed > > mandrake 9.1. Installation was straight forward with all hardware > > detected and configured, even the speedtouch adsl usb modem (just needed > > Bah! Another broadband user bragging again. Tcch. I've gotta wait for the next > LinuxFormat DVD for Mandrake9.1 > > > to download the microcode). the only problem that i have encountered > > post installation was the fact that the download version of mandrake > > doesn't come with java, but am very pleased with myself, being only a > > Most Linux distros don't - Sun insists on a restrictive licence and don't > allow magazines to have Java on a cover disc either. Without ADSL, I haven't > had Java on any machine for over 2 years now. It's simply too big to > download. Haven't missed it yet. > > > Well to sum up I now have a working system with internet access, sitting > > back with a smug grin on my face drinking coffee. One small step for > > linux but a giant leap for me. If i do encounter problems don't worry > > you will be the first to hear *chuckle*. > > Don't worry, this isn't off topic - it's what the list was designed to > achieve: communication between Linux users new and old. > > > > -- > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.codehelp.co.uk > http://www.dclug.org.uk > > http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.