Am Do, den 30.12.2004 schrieb Jorge Fábregas um 5:32: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:19 am, Timothy Payne wrote: > > Alexander, THANK YOU for all your hard work, you have helped me and > > countless others on the list. I was just looking in my saved folder and > > most of them have your name on them. I hope you can keep it up in 2005. > > I totally agree. I really admire Alexander for taking the time to help people > out here. Thanks very much Alexander! Thank you Jorge :) Though I am glad that my contribution is honored there are a lot of other people here on the list answering questions and discussing problems or searching for solutions. I am just a small part of it all. It has been said already, this mailing list demonstrates the quality and power of the Fedora Community. > BTW... could you please answer some questions for us? Ok, I will, but just in short form. I feel if you are interested in some particular information it would be better to contact me personal. Feel free to do so. > - Do you ask any question at all on the list? (I haven't looked at the > archives yet...but I'm wondering) :) I don't exactly remember myself. What I remember is that I some month ago I asked whether someone knew where to get a GTK theme I saw on a screenshot in the net. And I got the hint :) This does not mean that I never have questions. But in most cases I can manage to find my way by reading existing documentation. What you can find by using google is really a wonderland. > - Do you work as a SysAdmin, Network admin? Or is it Linux just a hobby? During my time at university I worked as a network administrator and Linux was a small part (most was Novell and Windows and some HP-UX). Linux is much more than a hobby. It is the platform I prefer for many jobs and actually I am a "freelancer" in IT consulting. Main interests are mail services and network security. > - Since when have you been using Linux? Why Fedora in particular? Well, the real starting point using Linux was in 1998. The system was a SuSE 5.2, because a friend was a SuSE user, the system had good German localisation and I got it cheap as a student. The first contact with Linux was earlier, I think in 1995, a crippled Slackware coming with a computer magazine CD. What shall I say? Either Linux was not prepared for me or me not ready to be a Linux geek :) Probably a combination of both. The documentation wasn't good - a typcial magazine 'edition' for just tasting things - and being online was very expensive here in Germany at that time. Too it was a period in Linux's lifetime where X was already a part of it, but regarding hardware recognition Linux was mainly a white paper. I failed to setup X with a screen you could work with. This was because you had to know the details of your graphics (card and monitor) very detailed and without a proper modeline, which you had to construct yourself, you either got garbage on the monitor or you blew it to death (no self protection of the monitor at that time). So my first contact with Linux in 1995 was a short episode and I went back to OS/2 (I still have deep respect at IBM for that great system). I am using Fedora because after a short time with SuSE in 1998 I switched to Red Hat Linux 5.2 (I still have that box) and used Red Hat since then. I simply like how Red Hat Linux / Fedora is structured internally. For my taste SuSE is too much Yast concentrated which means that using Yast you can't edit things manually. Deactivating Yast makes it difficult to find all the locations where customisation is needed. 1,5 year I had Debian Woody on my desktop system, but the stable Debian isn't something you want on a desktop. testing/unstable is like running Rawhide - the weekly headaches included - and working with the backports didn't make me lucky too. Debian stable is good for old and poor hardware, which runs for limited and specific purposes. At university I still remotely maintain a Debian system running as a print server and internal webserver for accounting data. Gentoo? I gave it a try - from stage 1 onwards. Well, its a system for those type of people having a motor cycle which is 90% of time in the garage where they are dismounting things, repairing, tuning, what else doing with it. And I don't run the most powerful hardware to afford the compile times X.org or OpenOffice.org or a Gnome for instances needs. I feel comfortable using Red Hat / Fedora, think to know the system good enough, am able to use RPM on command line both as user as well with packaging (last not perfectly) and mainly am able to use the system - hardware and the Linux system - as the tool which it should be as a tool. > - Do you have some specific bookmarks stored so that when a newbie asks a > question you just point them to the right direction? I've seen you answering > questions very quick with specific links and I go like "he must have a nice > bookmarks database". In the past I had a growing bookmark collection. When it came to a point where it took me nearly as long to find a specific bookmark as to find the same information (and site) by using a search machine like google or formerly Altavista, I began to no longer bookmark. So I really have no bookmarks. Not a single one. What I use a bit "bookmark-like" is the history and auto complete function of modern browsers. The rest is either stored in my brain or I know how to find it in time by using google. When I answer peoples' questions here on the list by giving links do specific documentation, then I always did a quick google search to hand out a valid link, and a link which should contain the desired information. Really, there is so much already written down by people all over the world. You just have to find it :) And I confess, that finding these manuals is often not trivial for beginners. > Erhmm that's all by now. I may ask some more later..Let see how it goes :) So far by me. I finally wrote more than I originally wanted. Hope no subscriber will blame me for this ;) > Again, really, thanks for your time here on the list. Being glad about your kind words. Sharing experience, knowledge, thoughts and even some times frustration is a fair part of the free software concept. So I am paying back what I once got by others when I was less trained and what I constantly get as input. There is really enough inspiration from this list too to me, so that I follow discussions where I don't contribute or that I test out things which I wouldn't when not knowing about them. > Jorge You and all the others: I wish you a great year 2005! Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 20:48:30 up 8 days, 22:32, load average: 0.29, 0.14, 0.19
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