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IRC nick(s): Asha`man
Role in SMGL: Section maintainer for z-rejected (on leave but will return)
Age/Birthdate: 23
Location/Country: San Antonio, TX. / USA (summer: Fort Worth, TX. / USA)
When did you first start using Linux and why?
About 3 years ago for my programming classes. At the time I only used it in class, but I quickly became interested in getting it to run on my computer, but not because I wanted to learn linux though. I wanted to install it because I didn't like using telnet to work on the linux machines across campus, and I didn't want to walk across campus to do my homework. I ran into a problem though, with the distributions at the time having poor (well non-existant) support for a PCI controler card for my hard drives, so the installers wouldn't detect that I had a hard drive. It took until the RH 7.1 release to be able to do that. (I had tried various previous versions of RH and Caldera). That would have been about 1 year ago. For the first 3 months of having linux on my system, I didn't use it all that much, because that was last summer, and over the summer I used my system mainly for games, and I didn't know much about wine or have any linux games at the time. Then starting in the fall, I really began to use it, and I haven't looked back since.
How long have you been using the SMGL distribution?
I've been using SMGL since March 2002. Since right after Spring Break this year. I first heard about it in January, and in fact, my cd was burned with the January 26 iso file. I had a little difficulty with the initial install. Basically my trouble came from lilo, so I ended up installing RH on another HD temporarily to install GRUB to get my initial boot to work.
What piqued your interest in SMGL initially?
Well, at the time, I felt I had reached a point where I had learned enough using RH that I was becoming really upset with the way the RPM system worked. I liked having my system completely up to date, and I felt like RPMs made it more difficult for me to do so. I just felt that I would have more control over the system than RH offered.
What future do you personally see for SMGL?
I see a great distro that puts the power and control back into the sys admins hands. One of the things I really like about this distro, and is why I think it will be around for a long while is the way the people came together to continue this distribution when it went through some tough times a couple of months ago.
Tell us a little bit about yourself. Education/Career/Skills?
I'm about to go into my senior year at Trinity University. I am a double major in Business Administration with a concentrition in Finance, and Computer Science. My degree when I graduate will be a BS in Business. As things currently are, I'm thinking very seriously about going into Health Administration after graduation, and work for a couple years before I go to grad school.
Any personal messages for the Source Mage users out there?
Have fun, SMGL is a distro that'll let you do whatever you want with your system.
What other OS programs/software have you worked on?
I've done some level editing for unreal tournament and Wheel of Time (great game btw, but I haven't gotten it to run in linux yet).
vi or emacs?
emacs
KDE or GNOME?
Gnome
BSD or GPL?
GPL
Do you have any family?
My Dad and my sister, then my step-mom and her kids. No family of my own yet.
What kind of car do you drive? Or what is your dream car?
A car with 4 wheels and isn't powered by my feet on the pavement.