New member here of the LoCo. I thought I might introduce myself by answering this latest question in the mailing list.
I got started with Linux back in the 90's using a clone of Red Hat that I found in a Wal-Mart for $5. Booted up to a console. Played around and got startx going and started into twm. Neat. A GUI full of term windows. Fell in love. Rewrote a driver I found online to get my Winmodem to work and I was hooked on FOSS and Linux. Learned about Ubuntu in 2005 and played around with it and liked it. Used it as my primary OS for about 3 or 4 years (was using Debian and Fedora Core before that). I remember there being some issues and so started jumping between Fedora and Ubuntu before the great distro hop years. Now, while I dabble around in other distros, I pretty much use Kubuntu. I like KDE and it was either Kubuntu or openSUSE and while I like openSUSE, I don't have as much time to "force" things to work so I use what most people write for which I admit pains me a little because I have a special place in my heart for small distros. Part of that is because I served on the Fuduntu Linux team for a while before the upstream changes were too much for us to handle while still giving users what they wanted and so it took its toll and came to an end. I worked with the openSUSE team for a short time before taking a few year hiatus from any contributing. in 2007, helped to form up the Nevada LoCo and worked with sum LUG's. Now, I'm trying to jump back into the middle of the Linux and FOSS world. Something that has disappointed me is the decline of LoCo's and LUG's and I want to find a way to bring that back as well as advocate for smaller distros. By day, I am a Systems/Network Administrator. Pains me to say it, but it's a 99% Windows network though I plan on changing that some. My laptop at work runs Linux because most of my day is RDP'd into servers (or via PowerShell) or in various browser-based clients so why not? I live down by Cincy and have a wife and two small children. FOSS and Linux advocate (but practical...sometimes FOSS and Linux don't have the best solution). I saw a post from a couple years ago about reviving this LoCo. Is that still something of interest to others? Nice to virtually meet you all and hope that maybe this thread that was started will spark some renewed interest. Linux and FOSS were built on community. It's time to bring that back. Elias _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
