Re: What's a debian kid look like?
Matt <myanchys@is2.dal.ca> writes:
> Controversial questions like, "Will I ever meet more than 1 or 2 female
> Debian users who are active on mailing lists?
I have my girlfriend using Debian, though I haven't gotten her on the
mailing lists yet. Maybe someday I'll help get that total to 2 or 3...
> IT? Artsy? Young? Old? Bitter? Socialist or CrewCut? Utopian or realist?
>
> I'll try to break the ice a bit: white male, 22, Canada, FineArts ex-pat
> turned CompSci near-grad, downtempo and raregroove on the weekends,
> csound, php and java development on the weekdays. Left-leaning (Harpers,
> not New Republic), piano-playing, community-oriented, social.
24 yo, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Cornell), born and raised on Cape
Cod, MA, USA. Currently living in Seattle, telecommuting for a tiny gas
turbine consulting firm writing multi-platform software (using Qt at the
moment).
Been using Linux since '95, though I've only been using it exclusively
for about a year (damn Doom, Quake, Warcraft 2, Diablo, Starcraft,
Asheron's Call addictions throughout college).
Other stuff...
Instruments: guitar, learning piano
Music: Radiohead
License: GPL
Politics: completely against anything known as "politics" in the US,
anti-corporate, _No Logo_
> Curious why so many people use RedHat.
I'd say mostly because of marketing and reputation. To most commoners,
Redhat == Linux. It's gotten a lot of press and has a decent corporate
reputation. It's the distro everyone has heard of. It's supposed to be
"easy to use". Also, RPM's are everywhere; Redhat is the target
platform for most commercial Linux software. To the outsider, it
appears to be the most supported distro.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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