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73 this month/Male/Kansas/Retired about 3 times/Been working with Linux on 3 of my PC's for a little over a year. Using FC5, SuSE 10.1 and WindozeXP Pro. Tried a couple of other distros, but have about settled on SuSE - now if I can just learn to use it better. Just wanted to learn the OS - still learning at my 'advanced age'.
24/male/Minneapolis, MN, USA (stupid, but I'll mention it, when I first came to linuxquestions.org, I was surprised to see a lot of stuff for me, Jeremy's blog, Jeremy this, Jeremy that. It turns out, it's the main "root"? guy here. As my name is also Jeremy (JBailey).
So I was stupid when I came on.
17(B-day: 8/8/89)/male/ Live in Evansville Indiana/ Been using linux for about 6 years or so./ Use FC/redhat, Slackware, Knoppix, and alittle Mandrake but, mostly FC and slackware./ I'm already running 3 diffrent networks on Linux backbones, so my life is bussy,,, problems,,, forms,,, and problems... LOL...
I am very curious as to know more about the people on this forum, i would like to know these MAIN things your: Age, Sex, Location & Nationality...
You don't have to answer them all, but i would like it if you could....
and i am....14/Male/Australia, Sydney/Indonesian
Hi,
My profile is as follows:
Male, 54 yrs of age, married with with one grown daughter and a grandson
I live in Attleboro, MA
BSET Electronic Engineering Technology, ASET
27.5 years at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory Engineering Technician/Software Engineer
3 years at Teradyne Inc. Software Engineer
2 years at Agamatrix Inc. Senior Engineering Technician
5 months SQA Engineer Instrumentation Laboratory
I have worked with: MSDOS, Windows, MacOS, VMS, UNIX, and Linux
I have extensive experience with a number of uProcessors.
I have used: MS-BASIC, Borland Turbo-BASIC, Tektronix BASIC, HP-BASIC, C, C++, HTML, and etc.
I'm an American of Portugese and English extraction. My mother's parents came from Fayal in the Acozers and father's people are old time yankees.
I've been working with computers since High School starting out on a DEC PDP-8 running FOCAL 4.0
I've been using Fedora Core 5 now for a couple of weeks. I installed it in an older PC that had a bad HDD. It is the only OS in this machine and will serve as a professional learning tool and hobby machine for now.
Ken
Last edited by kstringham; 11-13-2006 at 12:36 PM.
I can't believe how old some people are on hear. Most geeks i know make fun of the old linux users but i love that there are still some older folks that know what linux is and how much windoes sucks
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