About Me

I first became interested in Linux in 2000 when I saw RedHat, Mandrake and several other distributions being sold as cheap box sets in one of my local bookshops. Unfortunately, I never managed to get any distribution working properly so I gave up and returned to Windows.

At the beginning of 2010, my father, who had taken up an interest in computing upon his retirement, told me that he was using Ubuntu Linux and shortly after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on an old Dell PC which I had purchased in 2005. Although upgraded, this PC saw regular use until just before the release of Precise Pangolin when it was reluctantly retired from service.

I started beta testing with the Ubuntu 10.10 release code-named Maverick Meerkat followed by Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal and have been involved in testing and the reporting of bugs of each release since then.

I am currently using Kubuntu 13.04, Lubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Other Information

I am also a licensed amateur radio operator, call-sign G4MBY, previously G6AVH although currently inactive. I am looking at ways to combine my interest in amateur radio with that of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I have recently started contributing to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

Internet Relay Chat

My registered IRC nickname is PaulW2U although I also use G4MBY from time to time. I am usually present in the following channels on the Freenode network:

My Profile Pages

• Ubuntu Forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1078994

• Kubuntu Forums - http://www.kubuntuforums.net/member.php?18419-PaulW2U

• Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~paulw2u

• Homepage - http://www.g4mby.com/ or http://www.pcw.me.uk/

• Ask Ubuntu - http://askubuntu.com/users/12714/paulw2u

Future plans

• To always be running the latest development release of Kubuntu and may be Ubuntu.
• To contribute to more Ubuntu related projects.
• To become an Ubuntu/Kubuntu member.

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