Hi there

[Technarazzi]

I'm Technarazzi. I been around UNIX for about twenty years, and Linux for about twelve; my first actual installation of a distro was SuSE 6.3, and I've favored SuSE ever since. I cut my teeth on Daisix (a UNIX-like OS written by Daisy Systems Corp for their 8086 workstations back in the '80s) and then earned Sunos 1.2 system admin credentials. I confess to owning a VMS (pre-openVMS, even) system admin credential as well, though I'd probably flounder for a while if I ever had to actually do anything with it again.

I've done a lot of tech support and a fair bit of development; C, Java, and Perl and most shell scripting languages, as well as SQL in most flavors, don't scare me, and neither does make, even on kernels.

I have a homebrew dualie Xeon 3.2GHz on a Supermicro X5DA8 with 12GB, a Radeon 9800XT with 512MB and two 1680x1050 ViewSonics and some pretty major storage and a Gateway MP8708 both running SuSE 10.2, a Dell XPS333 running SuSE 9.3, a Dell XPS400 running SuSE 9.2, and that SuSE 6.3 (after major kernel hand-rolling and probably 45 or 50 various addons) is still running on a homebrew Pentium III 450. For Windoze boxes I have a Vaio notebook, a Vaio desktop, and I manage my wife's Vaio notebook as well. There are probably eight or ten virtual machines floating around as well, and 3 or 4 TB of MyBook storage drives.

I do music including guitar and MIDI, wildlife and astronomical photography with both film and CCDs, and so that has me doing MIDI sequencing and photo processing on both Linux and Windows. The only device that I really wanted that I haven't been able to make work on Linux is the TI PCIxx12 reader working with Sony Memory Stick media, and I only found that out today; if I get frustrated enough I might go contribute to the tifm project.

Nice ta meetcha all.

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!