Welcome to the Alabama LoCo forums

[strabo40]

Hey All,

I'm also new to Ubuntu, but have messed around with Linux since Red Hat 6.0. I have not been too successful in previous Linux installations, but a friend introduced me to Ubuntu and since my laptop with Win 2k kept crashing and was in need of a rebuild I decided to make the jump and partition out a chunk of disc to load Ubuntu.

So far I am very impressed with the load and with the forums. I had some difficulty in getting my broadcom 4306 wireless working, but the forums were great for getting this worked out. Now if I can get some other apps to work with Wine maybe I can get closer to dropping MS all together.

Looking forward to a good Alabama group to share ideas with.

I'm also on AIM with strabo34.

Have a great Ubuntu day!

[strabo40]

BTW, forgot to mention that I live in Helena and work in Calera.

[sailor2001]

down in the real south (Foley area) operating edgy on a dual boot but haven't been into windoz for a month or 2...Still need it to check on things for our computer group. Have started a couple on Ubuntu, most guys are chicken to go into something new (to them). Think I'll use that vid on utube and send it around. Would like to see a lug in this area.. Maybe someday.....I think age maybe holding me back a little on that though. Please keep me informed on things happening in Alabama

[logicalsi]

i am not sure if this is a good place to post this but here it is.

our company is located in columbus, ga. we are looking for a couple of linux geeks.
we are looking for a linux help desk and a linux admin.

if anyone knows of someone or is interested please send an email or resume to jobs@logicalsi.com.

[crane]

Originally Posted by logicalsi i am not sure if this is a good place to post this but here it is. our company is located in columbus, ga. we are looking for a couple of linux geeks. we are looking for a linux help desk and a linux admin. if anyone knows of someone or is interested please send an email or resume to jobs@logicalsi.com.

YOu may have better luck in the Georgia Forums!

[Neysa]

Do you need a novice here?
I switched over to linux from ms a year and a half ago or so. I think I've been using Ubuntu around six months. I don't know what I'm doing, just enough to be dangerous, but I'm not going back to microsoft, so I reckon it's time to figure out at least some of this.
I believe I saw that someone here is in the Gardendale area, I am as well.
Oh, and if anyone has suggestions for learning more about this, please point the way! Most everything I know about computers is self-taught, so I don't even know enough terminology to ask good questions!

[stubborndave]

Hello all. I hail from Huntsville. My career as a Unix sysadmin begin in 1986. I'm currently employed as the lone linux guru on a large IT helpdesk. Most linux around here is RHEL, CentOS and Fedora. At home, I use a combination of Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows.

[crane]

Originally Posted by stubborndave Hello all. I hail from Huntsville. My career as a Unix sysadmin begin in 1986. I'm currently employed as the lone linux guru on a large IT helpdesk. Most linux around here is RHEL, CentOS and Fedora. At home, I use a combination of Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows.

Welcome and thank for joining! There have been a good bit of Ubuntu users come from North Alabama. Be sure to check out the User group up there as well. (LUNA)
One question for you though. If you are the Lone Linux Guru, did you get a mask and cap and a horse?
LOL J/K I just got a mental image of the Lone Ranger when I read you post! Hi-Yo Bit_torrent Away!

[marianlibrarian]

Greetings from Geneva Alabama!

I have been all over this forum and never knew this Alabama thing was going on. I had to find it in -- you will love this -- Orkut! HA -- and I met some nice people there too.

It sure is nice to know that I am not alone in the state of Alabama in promoting Ubuntu.

I am a library director in a weenie little town of about 4000. I have taken our library from obsolete winders 98 to Ubuntu 6.06. The patrons love it. The staff love it too. I have been very fortunate to have found wonderful help in the Ubuntu forum.

My library website also got DUGG for using Ubuntu. What a fluke!

Anyway, just wanted to stop by and say "Hello"!

Marian the Librarian

P.S. My name really is Marian

[Brindled]

Birmingham here.

i first dabbled with redhat a few years back. then, i used 6.06 last year some, but ran into problems running my home network. so i dropped out for a while, but came back when i saw a vid on youtube with all the desktop improvements. upon reinstalling ubuntu 7.04 the network problems had disappeared, and i was sold. i now run a dual boot with windnos for just gaming and mp3 player needs. now, i won't spend a second longer than i have to in windnos.

Peace!