[NYLoCo] introductions

[John Mullin WTKO]

I have been reading all the introductions and it's an impressive group.  I am the least technical of all of you.  I'm a middle school teacher in Brooklyn and live in Staten Island.  I have a Cisco Certification, completed a few years ago when I supported my school's infrastructure.  But with a new principal, I just teach.  
Got started playing around with Linux a few years ago when I realized how much control Microsoft wanted.  About a year ago I got serious into Unbuntu and haven't looked back.   I have helped start a fledgling Staten Island LUG.  
John Mullin


Steven Day <steven.day at gmail.com> wrote: I'll post as the another student on here then :).

I'm Steven Day, a Java Developer/Student in New York City. My first experiences with Linux was in 1999 when I stumbled upon it while reading a few online news sites. I remember installing my first distribution on my PC, which was Red Hat  6.0. It was a very cool difference and a lot of fun to play with. There were some things at that time that either didn't work or wouldn't work without some extra work (Dial up modem). I then decided to jump into Linux completely and used it exclusively between 2000 and 2001, jumping between red hat, mandrake (now mandriva), SuSE, Slackware, etc. I can say it was a real challenge at first to type up papers and do everything Windows users were accustomed to back then. I eventually succumbed to Windows sometime in 2001 because I missed games and pretty much abandoned Desktop linux for a while. I still ran linux and FreeBSD servers but the desktop wasn't ready for me at that time. 

In March of 2007 I decided to revisit Linux on the desktop in the form of Ubuntu. I had heard a lot of Ubuntu from a few friends and when my hard drive died, sinking my Windows XP install with it, I decided to go Ubuntu. I was thoroughly impressed by the live CD install and the satisfaction of not using an rpm based distribution (it might be better now, but broken rpm dbs were all the rage 7 years ago). With the release of  7.10 things got even better and I am very much sold on Ubuntu. I can do everything I want to and more with Ubuntu that could potentially be a pain in the ass with windows at 0% of the additional costs.

I do owe my current job to my knowledge of the various *nixes as well :). 
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