Scott Blaydes
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Linux and BSD
Using BSD since: 1997 BSD/OS 2.1 and FreeBSD 2.2.5
Using Linux since: 2004 (install that lasted more than a week)
Home distro: Ubuntu/YellowDog/RedHat
Work distro: Ubuntu/Debian
Server distro: FreeBSD
I helped start a ISP that ran BSD/OS. To learn the BSD/OS better, I started using FreeBSD at home, then ditched BSD/OS at work. A friend on IRC and I tried to see if each of us could go without MS Windows at home for 30 days. The first few days were tough, but after that the time flew by. It was once the rule of my apartment that no machine running MS Windows was allowed inside, so visitors were required to leave MS Windows powered laptops on the front porch. I was always playing with Linux distros, but kept going back to FreeBSD and occastionally MS Windows (I had a bad Counter Strike addiction that I sought help for). One day I just really felt like a hypocrite advocating Open Source and Free Software, but running Windows (occasionally), so I fdisked the Windows partition on my desktop at home and kept the Linux partition. Now the only machines I possess that run Windows are my personal laptop and my work laptop. Both run "Windows-only" config software for hardware I deal with at work.
I am ever searching for the Linux distro that is easy enough for my mom to install and run.
UPDATED: Feb 19, 2008 I am running off of just my laptop, no desktop machine any more. The laptop dual boots between Ubuntu and Vista, but it is rarely in Vista.
Personal
UPDATED Feb 19, 2008
In July of 2006, I moved back to Indiana from Texas where I was a sysadmin for a Wireless ISP for 3 years. My daughter is here in Indiana and I wasn't getting to see her enough when I was in Texas. While in Texas I was an active member of the West Texas Linux Users Group.
On Janurary 1st, 2008 I was back in Abilene, Texas. Currently I am working for Genesis Network Solutions doing QA Software Testing Support. I am again active with WTLUG, along with helping some of my coworkers get started with Linux.
BLUG
I am a past President of BLUG, but handed over the reins to Mark Krenz before I left for Texas in late December.
