[Ubuntu-be] New member: introduction

[Kevin Elaerts]

We use English here primarily I think to circumvent the languagetrouble.
So that the Frenchspeaking and Dutchspeaking people don't have troubles
interpreting what one another sais, and also English is the universal
language, hihi

MVG 

Kevin

Op di, 09-01-2007 te 13:42 +0100, schreef Frederick De Vogelaere:
> Hi there,
> 
> I finally subscribed myself to this mailing-list, mainly because I'm 
> still getting more enthousiastic every day about Linux and especially 
> (K)Ubuntu.
> 
> Let me introduce myself: So I'm Frederick De Vogelaere, living in Ghent, 
> currently employed as a scientific researcher for University Ghent (I'm 
> working on a PhD-degree about the early detection of Alzheimer's 
> disease  with MRI-scanners). I've been into computers for many years 
> now, mainly Windows-environments, but was always curious about 
> alternatives, mainly being Linux and its possibilities. The fact that 
> Linux is worldwide accepted as standard operating system for scientific 
> data-processing gave me the necessary nudge towards using it myself on a 
> daily basis. And to be honest, I'll never consider returning to Windows 
> (at least not voluntary :D). First distro I tried was OpenSuSE 10.0 but 
> I switched to Ubuntu 5.04 after some time. Since Dapper Drake I run 
> Kubuntu. Got one Kubuntu Edgy Eft box at home, one at work and a server 
> running Kubuntu Dapper Drake LTS also at work.
> 
> At work, I'm the only one at the moment working with Linux, but 
> colleagues are curious and are seeing the benefits I get with Linux 
> compared to  Windows. I got them already switched to Firefox and 
> Thunderbird and they work on the Linux-server through remote desktops... 
> but there's still some work to convert them fully... :D
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Frederick De Vogelaere
> 
> PS: I noticed most posts on this list are in english. Is this the 
> default language used?
>