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? <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brad Campbell <<a href="mailto:brad@wasp.net.au">brad@wasp.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">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. </div>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 -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Ubuntu-ae mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-ae@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-ae@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ae" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ae</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Best wishes, Sofian Linux user