I'll join in and say:

27, female, Alabama/USA

I'm actually a Visual Basic Programmer so I obviously use Windows at work. I'm trying to learn Linux at home so I can maybe someday get away from Windows...to many headaches.

Maybe I'll finally get lucky and turn out a successful dual boot install in the next week of Win2K and either Redhat or Mandrake.

.... I am... 46, Male, from Concord, NH, USA
I run many different Linux distros, using Lycoris Desktop/LX at the moment, have Caldera Open Linux Workstation 3.1, Mandrake 9.0, Libranet 2.7, Red Hat 8.0 (null, will upgrade to final when I get my order filled), SuSE 8.0, Lycoris Desktop/LX (Amethyst Release, Update 2, build 46, also Build 51 on test partition), Gentoo Linux 1.1A with updates. I also run FreeBSD, experimenting with 4.6 right now, 4.7 in the near future. Have other OS, including QNX 6.1, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 2nd Ed, and many other CDs of other distros, but I don't use these very often anymore, mostly Lycoris, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Libranet (Debian).

I'm younger than nautilus(a couple of months I must say), but I got to admit that GT is the youngest one I've seen so far But I'm with computers since I was 4(!!!)

24 / M / been here in TX for 3years .. originally from korea

you wouldn't know how hard it was for me to read man/howto pages not in my native language..

this site has been the best for getting used to linux
with the help of you kind ppl..
thx!

Whoa masinick, how many computers do you have, or how many HARD DRIVES you got, how much GIG you got ....and also, HOW MANY CD's OF O/S' DO YOU HAVE hahaha

wanderpun: hmmmm i don't remember my first computer, though i did have a commodore 64, we also had some apple thing , i had my atari aswell.....loved that!

doublefailure: glad your happy here , i sure am!

Garry

Geeks R Us! Would you believe that I have a single 40 GB hard drive on one system? It is true! I do have a total of four computers in my basement, but I am running the vast majority of the stuff I'm doing all off one fairly simple Dell Dimension 4100 with one 40 GB disk. I use very close to the maximum number of logical partitions that I can get away with, and I allocate between 3 and 6 GB to each of the distro partitions, and 400 MB to one common SWAP partition that I use.

Here's a snapshot of a recent GRUB /boot/grub/menu.lst boot manager file similar (but possibly not exact) to what I'm using now:

#
# /boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard
#
# options
timeout = 5
splashscreen = (hd0,8)/boot/message.rl

default = 0

title = Lycoris Desktop/LX
root = (hd0,8)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.4.18-modular vga=274 quiet console=ttyS3,9600 apm=off acpi=no-idle root=/dev/hda9

title = Windows 2000 Professional
chainloader = (hd0,0)+1

title = CalderaOpenLinux (hda4)
root = (hd0,3)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz vga=274 quiet root=/dev/hda4

title = Mandrake Linux (hda5) Graphical Login
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi quiet vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title = Mandrake Linux-nonfb (hda5)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi

title = Mandrake failsafe (hda5)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi failsafe

title = Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18 (hda6)
root = (hd0,5)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda6 ro hdd=scsi

title = Red Hat Linux (hda7)
chainloader = (hd0,6)+1

title = SuSE Linux (hda8)
chainloader = (hd0,7)+1

title = SuSE Linux (2.4.18) (hda8)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.suse ro root=/dev/hda8 hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd.suse

title = Lycoris Desktop/LX
chainloader = (hd0,8)+1

title = Gentoo Linux (hda11)
root = (hd0,10)
kernel = /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda11 vga=791

title = Sourceror Linux (hda12)
root = (hd0,11)
kernel = /boot/vmlinubz-2.4.17 root=/dev/hda12 vga=791

title = Lycoris Desktop/LX (hda9) old kernel
root = (hd0,8)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.4.12-modular vga=274 quiet console=ttyS3,9600 apm=off acpi=no-idle root=/dev/hda9

title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.19 (hda12)
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda12 ro hdd=scsi
savedefault

title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.19 (single user mode) (hda12)
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda12 ro hdd=scsi single
savedefault

Here's what my current disk geometry looks like:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 601 4827501 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 992 4861 31085775 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 603 991 3124642+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 1554 2295 5960083+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2296 3060 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3630 4039 3293293+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 4040 4425 3100513+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4427 4861 3494106 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 992 1042 409626 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda11 3061 3629 4570461 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 1043 1553 4104576 83 Linux

Some of the partitions are out of numbered order at the present time, but this configuration actually works, and I'm running on hda9 at this very instant, using Lycoris Desktop/LX. It CAN be done. I use GNU Parted to manage my partitions and GNU GRUB to manage my boot blocks. I keep an instance of GNU GRUB in my Master Boot Record (MBR) and as many additional instances of GRUB in the boot record of as many partitions as possible that support GRUB.

Me..
26, male
born and raised in Puerto Rico till about 22, then moved to Virginia, US.
Moved back to PR, spent 1 year working as a pc, and network tech at minimum wage (sucks big time, but i learned a lot), then got fed up with the situation and moved back to VA. I spent like 6 months looking for work and after giving up I was working as a cook in a Ruby Tuesdays, and then, like a Miracle, got a job doing video editing in the middle of DC. good pay and everything.
like I said im Puertorican, but one of my grandparents is Frech, born in Algeria, and the other one is Cuban. What a combination
Im married, about to have a baby girl, and I have a very cool lab mix dog whose name is Cachette.

Ill try to post a pic tonight.

Whoa thats heaps cool masinick, and figadiablo interesting....i'd love to learn about video editing...

Garry

Hey masinick, I'm impressed! I sure hope you keep your data on a different server, and even your home directories, or else you'll spend your life constantly moving things around and configuring your environment.

GT I.N.C:
Video editing is cool, sometimes it gets a little boring, but that depends on what kind of project you're working on and with who you are working with. Also a lot has to do with the video editing tools that you use, right now I'm using a video editing box call the casablanca Kron. Man, this thing crashes so much that makes Win98/ME look like stable plataforms! I though I would never see aomething crashing more than windows.
Thanksfully, we're getting new equipment, a new dual processor G4 1.25 GHz with Final Cut Pro 3. That is going to be so nice, I just can't wait. At least MacOSX is based on the Darwin (BSD).
I really wish there where some open source video editing software for Linux, so far I haven't found any. If you know of sometyhing please let me know.
Although the RUMORS are that since Mac is base on the Darwin, and since Darwin is based or derived from BSD , the open source community is pushing apple or somebody to give something back, and people are talking about Final Cut Por being ported for Linux. That would be a great thing for Lilnux. But rumors are rumors, and we are just gonna have to wait.
Later!

I keep a few of those partitions static, but just in case, I use tar to move and copy files I plan to keep on more than one partition. If I did it over again, I would have at least one static partition that I could share across distros. That said, it has been surprisingly easy to move stuff around.

I used to work in a UNIX group where we thought nothing of rebuilding an entire machine from scratch, using daily or nightly builds to test stuff. We'd tar the files we wanted to keep onto some server, then slam new OS images over the 'net to install on workstations, mount up the server disk, then copy files, sometimes even system config files, back into place.

What I'm doing here is a bit more dangerous, but I do keep at least some of my important data on other machines in other places. Another guy I know does something similar - network backups managed by someone else. His name is Linus Torvalds.

Well, apart from Cinelerra and Kino I don't think there is any linux video editing software, except maybe for Film Gimp which was used for a few features, like Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, and Stuart Little.

I'm a 24 year old aardvark from Ethiopia..... ok 24/m/IL

Heres my 2 cents worth :
Male, 28 from Derby in the UK Most of the time I'm network manager for a school.

I installed RH 7.3 on a spare PC at home about 6 weeks back, and haven't looked back (or at my main PC) since.

Wish me luck, I'm just about to reformat my main PC and say goodbye to XP And if only I didn't need win9x to play my favoutite games... <sigh>

hey ferreter.. dou you live in Ethiopia? My roomate in college is from Ethiopia, but was raised in Jerusalem. He is a coll guy. Good at basketball too.