[Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read

[Akshay Lamba]

I live in Dubai mate. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sofian Rahmani" <sofiankrt at gmail.com> 
To: "Ubuntu UAE Mailing List" <ubuntu-ae at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 5:14:39 PM (GMT+0400) Asia/Muscat 
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read 

Can you go there tonight? 


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Akshay Lamba < akshay at lambaweb.com > wrote: 





Cool. I'm in, maybe list members can put in a rsvp on the list and their location preference (Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Sharjah) and we can set something up. 

A 



----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 5:10:26 PM (GMT+0400) Asia/Muscat 
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read 

Not bad at all! 
It is in Abu Dhabi, close to the Old Sheikh Zayed Mosque, at the end of Electra Street. 






On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Akshay Lamba < akshay at lambaweb.com > wrote: 





Oh and there are 19 non-digest members and 7 digest members in this list. So a total of 26 members...not bad!! 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sofian Rahmani" < sofiankrt at gmail.com > 
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Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:43:07 PM (GMT+0400) Asia/Muscat 
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-AE] Long but interesting read 




Wow, that was quick! 3 replies in half an hour! 
How many people are in this mailing list? 
Hmm... I might be able to organize something at the Cultural Foundation. I have many friends there! Perhaps we might bring some Ubuntu CD's and give them out? Even a lecture, perhaps? I'm going there today actually. How many people do you expect will show up? 





On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brad Campbell < brad at wasp.net.au > wrote: 



Akshay Lamba wrote: 
> Hi Sofian, 
> 
> Welcome to ubuntu! There are quite a few users in UAE that I'm aware off 
> though dont have any indicative numbers. I've surely seen much more 
> server based implementations than desktop implementations of linux, but 
> looks like we're getting there slow and steady. 
> 
> There is a LUG (Linux User Group) also in Dubai, they do meet off and 
> on, though I don't think they've met in quite a while. If there's enough 
> numbers on this list and a volunteer to help set something up then we 
> can surely give it a shot. I'm happy to volunteer my home @ arabian 
> ranches as a venue. 

We used to meet monthly, but as most of the meets involved a bar, beer or a pakistani restaurant 
there used to be between 5 and me as the usual turn out. Great fun when it happened though. 

I'd be happy to get together for a monthly meet somewhere, it's usually a laugh at worst and 
educational at best. 

Oh, and I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, having my first install being 6.06LTS when it was released, 
but I've been using Debian for a few years now. I use Ubuntu exclusively on my Laptop (6.06LTS 
heavily patched) - Desktop (7.10 Dual boot with MacOS but very rarely in MacOS) - Spare Laptop 
(8.04) - Co-Lo Servers (6.06 LTS-Server). Other machines around the house all run Debian (Servers, 
NAS, TV, Stereo) and a few mix and match variants of Familiar, Angstrom and dd-wrt (3 iPAQ, Linksys 
WRT54GL and Buffalo WHR-G54S). 

I do have an iPAQ that runs windows, though I only use it as a bootloader for Linux with HaRET, and 
my TV box boots into DOS 6.2 on a USB keystick to run loadlin and load linux. 

I do have a Windows install in Virtualbox on my Desktop that I use for Microcontroller fiddling and 
AutoCAD as required. 

Now I've typed that all out, it's pretty scary really! 

I do actually own a device that has it's original OS on it (actually 3).. My Treo(s) 680 still runs 
PalmOS.. but it's only a matter of time I tell you! 

Brad 
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