Re: [Nolug] Hi there! (fresh meat)

welcome!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:28 AM, brent timothy saner
<brent.saner@gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hello, LUGers, from the balmy north!
>
> I'm a yankee- born and raised in the Philly suburbs. However, I'm moving
> down in January (probably the French Quarter/Jackson Sq. area) and have
> a friend that currently lives in Metairie (New Orleans and Metairie both
> are incredibly stunning; much moreso than dirty ol' Philly!). I'll be
> living in a community house (still under development) and serving the
> homeless in the area but still working for Tektonic (see below). I hope
> to meet you all and figured I might as well start to get acquainted with
> the flow of the mailing list!
>
> A little info about me:
>
> - -currently a GNU/Linux sysadmin for TekTonic ( http://tektonic.net/ ), a
> VPS host/reseller. I've been there for almost a year
>
> - -before that I worked for an outsourced IT company for businesses. I
> started out on support and moved on up to GNU/Linux jr. sysadmin/NOC
> sysadmin and worked closely with the Windows jr./NOC sysadmin there (we
> did a lot of integrated environments). I was there for about 2 years
> (still under NDA, can't reveal more than that. :X )
>
> - -been a GNU/Linux hobbyist/enthusiast for about 5 years
>
> - -fairly active member in my LUG- PLUG ( http://phillylinux.org ). I'm
> giving three presentations on OpenWRT in April and if anyone is
> interested, I can forward my slides and notes to the list after I present
>
> - -active member of my current Ubuntu LoCo and a regular in #ubuntu-us-pa
> on Freenode
>
> - -very actively involved in Club-Ubuntu (##club-ubuntu on Freenode), a
> "virtual LoCo" that spans worldwide. I op, sysadmin their "WAN Parties"
> (yes, it's exactly what you think probably), and do a bit of tech
> support in the channel
>
>
>
>
> Distros:
> (in chronological order)
>
> - -started on Debian (still run it on some of my servers)
>
> - -moved to Ubuntu briefly (and variants thereof)
>
> - -moved to (and fell in love with!) Gentoo (I currently run it on my
> laptop and workstation)
>
> - -toyed around with SuSE
>
> - -got more involved with the Ubuntu community (now run it on my desktop,
> some of my servers, and my eeePC)
>
> - -then got involved with and do a lot of work with CentOS (the distro of
> choice for Tektonic)
>
>
> and COUNTLESS of liveCD's over the years (but my favourite still remains
> to be SysRescCD).
>
> I've also toyed around with openBSD (prefer it for some of my networking
> hardware), FreeBSD, a little bit of NetBSD, and openSolaris.
>
>
>
>
> I'm glad there's a LUG down there! I don't know how many meetings I'll
> be able to make- I'm probably selling my car and just bringing my bike
> down- but I hope to meet all of you!
>
>
> P.S. if you're on Freenode, my nick is bts3685! Feel free to drop me a
> line. :)
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