Windows Anonymous

About chris_f:

I personally run Linux.  I started with Fedora, back when noobs were warned not to start with Fedora.  Before that of course I was "a PC", and before that I used anything with a keyboard--wrote BASIC and LOGO programs on an Apple IIe, Tandy TRS-80, Commodore 64, and even a Timex Sinclair 1000.  I come from a time before GUIs and I could care less who stole what from Xerox; I was still trying to get girls to notice me at that point.

At the moment I run Archlinux 64, and being that I decide how it's put together I'll probably be running it for a good long time to come.  Yes, I've tried Mac, from OS9 through Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and Leopard.  I know that it's built around BSD, and I know about IOKit.  It's still a left-handed BSD.  Windows, on the other hand, is...well, Windows.  I don't hate it because I don't have to use it on my own machine...well, not full-time anyway.  I'm prescient enough to realize that 85% of the world runs Windows, and "When in Rome..." I need it for school (pursuing dual Masters' degrees in Information Systems Management and Network & Communications Management); fortunately, my school is moving toward 3rd-party content providers who realize that Windows is not the be-all-end-all, albeit slowly.

In light of this confluence of operating systems I also, not surprisingly, do a lot of work with virtualization.  Mostly VMware, often VirtualBox, sometimes a few others if they intrigue me enough.

About chris_k:

I’m a rebel; I’m running Vista, with multiple virtual machine installs of different versions of Linux (thanks to chris_f for edumacating me on how to set these up and start learning about them).

Actually, I just started online school for IT, with a concentration in Software Engineering, and, unfortunately, the OLS requires the use of IE for everything. I’m just a half a step behind the Angry Young Man over it, but hey, I want to learn, so I’ll leave Vista on this machine until I finish school, at which point it’s GONE!

I’ve only just started with Linux, learning as I go, and while I’ll be detailing my exploits to the world, I will also welcome any comments, so please feel free to discuss it in the forums. I’m hoping we can learn from each other as we go...hopefully some of you will learn from what I’ve already been through, and I’ll learn from what some of you have been through, as this is what it means to be a community. Welcome to our community!

About mike_k:

I am many things and I am nothing. I exist, but for reasons undiscovered. I do many things, and few are noteworthy.

I will not bore you with the trivial. Instead, I will present the highlights.

I dive in head first. I see no point in waiting until I know what I'm doing. My motto is, "Learn as you go."

My favorite pastime is learning. I also enjoy teaching

I play with words, because words are entertaining.

Programming is merely playing with words in an arcane language.

I think Sun Tzu would have been a great hacker.

I think Shakespeare would have been a great programmer.

I think Pablo Picasso would have been a great web designer.