[ccoss] woohoo! first post!

hey all,

glad to see this is up and running, many thanks to Chris for his time 
and effort (i'm sure there are others, i just don't know them yet, thanks!).

I guess I'll start this off, we'll see if anyone else has subscribed 
yet, hehe.

I was at the last meeting, but I only really met Chris and Pete Santoro, 
so I'll introduce myself quickly.

My name's Dave Rodriguez, and I work at Integralis in East Hartford as a 
Professional Services Engineer. We do Network security, mostly 
Checkpoint firewalls, but others as well, including Cisco PIX and some IDSs.

Anyway, as I'm sure you can imagine, my interests are somewhat 
security-related....but not all. Right now, I would say I'm pretty 
interested in finding the distribution for my mom (which is why Nick's 
presentation interested me). I'd like to find a distribution that I can 
just install, set up minimally (printers, internet connection, email, 
etc.) and then almost forget. Package management is probably where most 
distributions tend to confuse super-newbies, with dependencies and all. 
Debian shines in this aspect, but installation/setup is pretty 
intimidating. (Which is why I'm excited by the debian-installer project 
and RedHat's Anaconda being ported to Debian). Knoppix's setup is 
getting there, but the huge number of programs in the menu (after 
installation) can also confuse, which is why I like Gnome's (and others) 
task-oriented menus.

Anyway, I'll cut this short with a couple comments on the upcoming 
meetings. I liked Pete Atkins' idea about meeting for coffee. The 
informal nature is what appeals to me, as it gives up the opportunity 
for the back-and-forth that a presentation-style meeting lacks. "What 
distro do you use? Why? Did you experience this problem? Did you solve 
it?", that sort of stuff. I guess we could do it via the mailing list, 
too, but the face time is important, I think.

I also liked Chris' idea regarding 5-10 mins per person for 
mini-presentations. I would be willing to talk on my choice of distro, 
Debian, since I don't think there was anyone else using it.

Regarding dates, I can do Dec 8th and later, with the 14th (if 
available) being preferred since it's a Sunday and I know I'll be home 
(I travel often for work).

thanks again!
Dave Rodriguez



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