[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!

I like to email in the evening/night after work, so I'll post a response then. 
I'm accessing my email through Web email. Thanks for continuing the discussion, 
Dave.

Christopher Paulin

> 
> From: dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2003/11/13 Thu AM 10:20:15 EST
> To: ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [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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