What's this all about?

[snowpalmer]

Hey. I'm from Utah County. I have been an Ubuntu user for a little while now. I work as a software engineer in Draper. What is this LoCo all about? Actually, what is a LoCo? :)

[Rhubarb]

LoCo = Local Community
... Well, atleast that's what what I think it means anyway :)

[snowpalmer]

LoCo = Local Community
... Well, atleast that's what what I think it means anyway :)

Oh well.. that would make sense! Is it a bunch of Ubuntu users getting together? I saw that there was a meeting.. how are those? What do they generally concentrate on? I looked at this meeting and the subject was apt?

[dgoodwin]

Just wanted to say hello in this thread. I have been using Ubuntu for a while now and continue to love every release. Great to see a group of locals using Ubuntu also. I am in the Salt Lake area and have used many linux distros and have found Ubuntu to be the best one available (for me)...:)

[snowpalmer]

Just wanted to say hello in this thread. I have been using Ubuntu for a while now and continue to love every release. Great to see a group of locals using Ubuntu also. I am in the Salt Lake area and have used many linux distros and have found Ubuntu to be the best one available (for me)...:)

I second that. Just a couple of weeks ago I decided to see what else was out there. I tried Suse 10, Fedora Core 6, and Simply MEPIS. But within a week I came back to ubuntu. It's a pretty well put together distribution in my opinion.

[ziox2012]

So, yeah, I'm a brand new Ubuntu user, just had my mom's dell laying around collecting dust, thought i would have some fun with Linux distros. Tried out Fedora Core 6, Puppy Linux, Kubuntu, and some others...but like others have said, Ubuntu, its just the functionality and userfriendly-ness and like the customizations you can do with it compared to windows... Anyways, I'm from the West Jordan Area, and I would love to learn more about ubuntu and help the open source and everything. So, I hopefully be showing up at the next meeting (whenever that is)....hope to see you all there? haha, later.

[Zelut]

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been in this thread for a bit.

My name is Christer and I founded the Utah Team. I'd love to meet all of you--I knew we had quite a few more Utah users around here :)

Feel free to contact me if you like at christer.edwards@ubuntu.com or drop by our channel in the IRC (http://ubuntu-utah.org/index.php/2006/06/22/ubuntu-utah-irc-channel/) to say hello!

[snowpalmer]

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been in this thread for a bit.

My name is Christer and I founded the Utah Team. I'd love to meet all of you--I knew we had quite a few more Utah users around here :)


Hey, good to meet you! I've been an Ubuntu user since the very first release and a linux tinker'er for a while before that. I can't say I am 100% in linux though. I dual-boot on my laptop to satisfy my World of Warcraft requirements and I have a VMWare image of windows because I am a full-time windows developer. 8)

[Zelut]

We'd love to see all of you at our upcoming planned meeting. Jan 13th, 3:00pm - 6:00pm at the SLC Library. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtahTeam/Meetings for details.

snowpalmer - by the way, WoW can be played within Ubuntu with little trouble. Come find me at the meet and I'll set you up :)

[thenetduck]

Hey snowpalmer,
Welcome! The ubuntu team is more than just a bunch of guys meeting. It's a bunch of geeky guys meeting and I must stay, there is a difference. We have objectives that we focus on in meetings (at least now we do ;)) and for the most part they are efficient. The meetings are great!
The Net Duck

[Frijolie]

Hey all, I guess an introduction is in order.

I'm a new Linux user (I did try Mandrake 8.1 - 10.1 a few years back) and after a few years hiatus from using Linux--I went back to Windows 98 at the time--I have to say that Ubuntu is my distro-o-choice. I've tried Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Dream Linux, and recently OpenSuSe all on live CD/DVDs. That concept is something that Microsoft has yet to accomplish! Will we ever see Vista on a Live CD? Anyways, after my return to GNU/Linux, I've only installed two distros: Ubuntu (Edgy) and Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com. The ease of use of the package manager and the vast variety of alternative applications available is definitely a factor that is allowing me to dump the old OS and bring in the new. Ubuntu is a operating system "that just works" and if progress continues it will be a large rival to the more dominant MS Windows in the future.

I live in the Holladay/Murray area and am a student at the University of Utah. Long live Ubuntu, FOSS, and GNU/Linux!

[snowpalmer]

We'd love to see all of you at our upcoming planned meeting. Jan 13th, 3:00pm - 6:00pm at the SLC Library. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtahTeam/Meetings for details.

Looks like I missed the meeting. Maybe next time though.


snowpalmer - by the way, WoW can be played within Ubuntu with little trouble. Come find me at the meet and I'll set you up :)

Not on my laptop. I have gotten it to work but performance is not playable and locks up quite often. I got it to work fairly well on another machine but I don't have ubuntu installed there anymore ( wife's computer )

[snowpalmer]

I live in the Holladay/Murray area and am a student at the University of Utah. Long live Ubuntu, FOSS, and GNU/Linux!

Cool. I'm looking into University of Utah for my MBA. So far it's my top choice. Byu is a bit more expensive and the other schools aren't nearly close enough (Weber State, Utah State, ??)

[Mark Gillis]

Since we are all introducing ourselves...
I'm Mark from Layton and just discoved ubuntu from a CNet article last month. Bought a book (Beginning Ubuntu Linux) and burned a few ISO images. Can't believe what fun I am having. It is like the old days with Apple 2's and programming in Pascal. I will try to make it to the next meeting!

[atoponce]

Since we are all introducing ourselves...
I'm Mark from Layton and just discoved ubuntu from a CNet article last month. Bought a book (Beginning Ubuntu Linux) and burned a few ISO images. Can't believe what fun I am having. It is like the old days with Apple 2's and programming in Pascal. I will try to make it to the next meeting!

Cool! Nice to meet you.

Our next meeting is on Mar 10 (tomorrow, actually) at the SLC library at 3pm. We'll be discussing gaming. See you there.