[Sussex] Newbie to the list

[Geoff Teale]

Hey Matt..

Good to have you on board.  As the resident Gentoo bigot (someone's got 
to stand up to Nik and Steve) I'd just like to add to the tally of Linux 
users in Horsham.

I'm a software engineer developing clinical trials software in Horsham. 
Via the CRO arm of the business we service extremely important trials 
for some of the largest corporations on the planet (not aloud to mention 
any details I'm afraid).  We deal with massive amounts of data and 
conform to some of the most rigourous standards in the world, and we do 
all this exlusively on Linux and mostly it is done in Horsham.  We run 
Debian for the product and Gentoo as a development and desktop platform.

... look forward to seeing you (checks watch.. oh.. is it _that_ 
time..?) tonight!

-- 
GJT
tealeg at member.fsf.org
gteale at cmedltd.com

Matt Taylor wrote:

 >Hi guys,
 >
 >I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks now and I thought 
I'd
 >better introduce myself. I've been using linux for a few years now and am
 >technical manager for a small internet/web company up in london bridge
 >(trying to get linux into every nook and cranny that I can!).
 >
 >After a long journey through the distros I settled on Gentoo last year. I
 >started using linux in my first year at uni in manchester. A 
coursemate of
 >mine helped me installed Redhat v5.something over ftp from their sunsite
 >mirror. I still remember booting into linux for the first time after the
 >install (my expert friend having gone home by this point) and being 
presented
 >with the command prompt and not having the faintest idea what to do 
next! It
 >was only later over the phone that he told me to startx.
 >
 >I haven't looked back since. The list of distros I've tried are in the 
rough
 >order of (with several jumps between):
 >
 >Redhat
 >Suse
 >Mandrake
 >Debian
 >Slackware
 >Crux/Rock
 >LFS
 >(brief flirtation with FreeBSD, but that doesn't count)
 >Gentoo
 >
 >We now use Gentoo for almost everything at work, from the lowly print 
server
 >up to web and database/transaction servers for the ecommerce sites we 
build
 >and host.
 >
 >Anyway, the fact that this lug had been resurrected had completely 
passed me
 >by. Great to see it's so active and I should very much like to join 
you guys
 >in the Kings Head tomorrow night. I could have sworn I was the only linux
 >user in Horsham! Obviously that's not the case. I'm looking forward to
 >talking to some likeminded folks and not having to explain what linux is
 >every time :)
 >
 >Many Thanks
 >
 >Matt Taylor
 >mattt at polymor.ph