Hey All! = About Me = I'm mid-30s, married with children and a mortgage in Connecticut. = Work = I work for a small(~ish) financial company in Hartford as a Developer (of sorts) and as #2 of a 2-man IT department (not including our boss). We are primarily a Microsoft shop (ASP.NET, SQL Server, Exhcnage, Office, Crystal Reports, etc.) although the two of us are looking to run a coup and change things around some (he's a BSD-guy). = Linux Experience = I started sometime around 2002, and if my memory serves me it 'twas the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except the fool installing RedHat Linux 8.0!' Since then I've upgraded to [[http://www.redhat.com|RedHat]] 9.0 before changing gears completely and going with [[http://www.gentoo.org|Gentoo]]. Within the past year I found and began running [[http://www.ubuntu.com|Ubuntu]]. I did try going back to RedHat by trying out [[http://www.centos.org|CentOS]] but have since returned to Ubuntu which I will probably stick with (for now). While I started with Ubuntu, I have looked into [[http://www.kubuntu.org|Kubuntu]] but so far have been bitten twice by the partitioning and installation process so unfortunately I'm going to skip this version for a while. Currently I am running [[http://www.edubuntu.org|Edubuntu]] on a computer which I originally set up for the kids. I have been pleasantly surprised to find that it doesn't skimp on anything from Ubuntu. = Involvement = I am part of the [[ConnecticutTeam|Connecticut Ubuntu Loco Team]], [[http://www.dacs.org|Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS)]], fencing at [[http://www.candlewoodfencing.com|Candlewood Fencing Center]]. = What else? = I split my time between family, Fencing (Epee), tabletop role-playing games (since about 1978) and computers. = Other Links = <>