[olug] New to the OLUG List

[Mario Steele]

Hello one and all,

I'm Mario Steele, and I'm a recovering Windows user for 3 months.  I've 
played with Linux many times before, but never fully ran on Linux till 3 
months ago when a friend sent me a copy of SuSE Linux 9.2 Pro.  Ever 
since, I've been running on Linux, and enjoying every minute of it.  I 
figured the next logical step, was to begin plans for world domination, 
but since that fell threw, I googled for local Linux User groups, and 
stumbled apon OLUG.

I'm glad to see there are Linux User Groups here in Omaha, and hope to 
learn more about the group, and Linux in equal time.  Oh yea, I guess 
this thing is suppose to have a little bit about myself.  Alright, I 
guess, if you insist.  I've been a General computer geek for about 7 
years, dealt with all versions of Windows, each one more crappier then 
the last.  My first few Linux Distro's was given to me by a friend, 
which was good old Red Hat 5.2, Corel Linux, and pukish FreeBSD.  
(Pukish, cause I could never get the thing to install.)

I'm surprised at the advancements that Linux has undercome, since thoes 
early days, and slightly dis-appointed in some of the Commercial 
Distributors of Hardware, for not supporting certian devices.  *grumbles 
at ATI for not supporting Radeon IGP 320M*  In the past three months 
since Linux has been my home OS, I've been switching between Fedora Core 
3, SuSE Pro 9.2 and 9.3.  I'm currently, however, on 9.2, since 9.3 has 
rendered my Video card prone to freezing up my entire system, whenever I 
attempt to run a Full Screen OpenGL App.

I don't know everything about computers, and I don't know everything 
about Linux, but I'm steadly learning, and will hope to learn more about 
Linux from thoes in the group, as well as with my own trials and 
trivialations.

Thank you for your time,
Mario Steele
Attaining World Domination, one byte at a time.
http://www.trilake.net
http://enchantedblade.trilake.net