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Re: [LUG] is this us?

 

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:18:41 +0100
> Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41186
>> Tom te tom te tom
> 
> Meetings have always been a problem with this particular LUG, so don't
> correlate our meetings with other LUGs in areas of more dense
> population.
> 
> Whilst it is true that there is less talk about the minutiae of
> installing GNU/Linux than in former years that only reflects
> improvements in Live CDs and installers in general, along with the
> ready availability of install images via cover discs etc. That is good
> news and does match with the article.
> 
> There's always been threads on M$ and other non-Linux stuff but the
> archive reflects the true nature of the discussions - even if the talk
> is not primarily of kernels and low-level hardware issues, it is all
> related to free software. In many ways, we've become much more of a GNU
> user group than a Linux user group because the problems and issues are
> most commonly with the free software modelled on the GNU tools rather
> than specific to kernels or kernel drivers.
> 
> So, no, I don't think the article reflects this group. How many
> meetings have we had where no-one at the meeting had a laptop or other
> device running GNU/Linux? A healthy group does include discussions of
> real life as well as geek life.

I think another thing that the article missed is that most problems are 
fixed and most technical discussions happen on the mailing list- for 
obvious reasons.

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