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Meet the Linux.com staff at the LinuxWorld Expo, February 2000

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Linux.com's support section is developed and maintained by the following people. They have put a large amount of time into the site. As well as the positions mentioned below, they are all active participants in the support mailing list.

Here's your opportunity to meet the people behind Linux.com, send 'em an email if you'd like, they'd love to hear from you.

Support Staff


Name	Title	Email
Matthew Trent	Support Project Manager	term@linux.com
Michael Wise	Page Design / Content	sparhawk@linux.com
Francis Litternio	Content	franl@linux.com
Carl Nasal	Programming	carlnasal@linux.com
Lars Gaarden	Support Technician	Lynet@linux.com
Robert Ridley	Support Technician	biomesh@linux.com
Jesse O'Neill	Support Technician	quasistatic@linux.com
Tim Conrad	Database	tim@linux.com
James Andrews	Content	vorsprung@linux.com
Marc Balmer	Support Technician	mb@linux.com
Russel Ingram	Support Technician	gargoyle@linux.com
John Eastman	Support Technician	johne@linux.com
Mooneer Salem	Code Manager	mind21_98@linux.com
Stan Shivell	Programmer	stan@linux.com

Matthew Trent

I first seriously started using Linux about 2 years ago with RedHat 4.2, and I've been in love with it ever since. Now I run Debian and keep up with the latest kernels. I've worked as a repair technician for a local computer shop and as a systems administrator for a small start-up ISP. Unfortunately, that ISP never got off the ground. However, during my time with that ISP I met up with gerard, and MbM (whom I'd already known for some time) and started the SixSteps project. Now we're all working with Linux.com. I'm also interested in politics.

Michael Wise

Hi, I'm Michael Wise and I must confess of being a Linux addict. I started with RedHat 4.0 way back in 1996, and I now use Debian potato. I'm in high school and will be a junior this coming year. I've actually known Matthew Trent (Term) for a few years via the Internet and that's how I got myself into linux.com in the first place. I was a Featured Articles Writer but now I've moved on to the support staff. :-)

Francis Litternio

I've been a software engineer for the past 14 years. I work at PictureTel Corp., Andover, MA, USA, writing NT device drivers for a videoconferencing application. I've been a UNIX user and on-and-off admin for 10 years and a Linux user for 3 years. I dual-boot Linux and NT at work and Linux and 95 at home, but my goal is eventually to be "all Linux all the time" at home. I teach Boston University's "UNIX System Administration" class, a 9-month-long evening class. I have my students use Linux in class.

Carl Nasal

Anyway, I'm a teenager going to be a junior next year in high school. I live in a growing, but small town, in Virginia, USA. My life is usually around the computer, but I recently got my driver's license, so that may change ... a little, a very little. :)

I've been using Linux for about 2 years, give or take about 6 months. Currently, I own a teeny-tiny web publishing/hosting business running solely on Linux. And I'm a fan of MUDs (especially MajorMUD that I script 24/7)--if anyone still remember what MajorMUD/BBSes are. :)

Lars Gaarden

My name is Lars Gaarden and I'm currently a systems consultant in Norway. That's basically a fancy name for saying that I configure routers and install Windows networks for our customers. When I started in high scool in 1994 I encountered Unix for the first time. It didn't take long before I installed Slackware on an old PC to tinker with. Since then I've been using Linux on and off. It's amazing how fast Linux has improved, and I now think it is a better tool for many tasks than a certain other system. Unfortunately, most of the world (and our customers) think otherwise. Life sucks doesn't it? :) So, I'm here because I want to do my part in making Linux more accessible to the rest of the world.

Robert Ridley

I'm Robert Ridley and I admit that I am a Linux addict. I started using Linux about a year and a half ago and have never looked back. I have worked as a sys admin for a theme park and currently for a hospital. I work with Novell and NT (sometimes AIX) servers . I am currently helping my company investigate uses of Linux in the Enterprise, so hopefully my position will be changing soon ;) I am still in school, but also work full time. I expect to graduate (hopefully) in the spring of 2000. I spend a great deal of time advocating linux. Over the past two months I've helped over a dozen people from work to get Linux up and running. Just wait until the fall semester :-} Since I spend a lot of time advocating, I also have to know how to help peope solve their problems. I guess I'm pretty good at it... I've been called the human sponge (now that's a compliment!)

Jesse O'Neill

my name is jesse oneill oine and i'm a web developer in minneapolis, mn. i just recently graduated from the university of minnesota with a degree in aerospace engineering and mechanics. yes, that does mean i'm a rocket scientist, but it doesn't necessarily mean as much as many people think. i know a ton about how fluid flows and the like, but that really doesn't help that much in real life. :-) i work for a company called imaginet and do perl and java development, but i also do quite a bit of sys admin. i've been using / playing with linux since i found out that i didn't like aerospace in 1996. i don't know it all, but i think that i can definately help out others quite a bit.

Tim Conrad

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James Andrews

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Marc Ballmer

I am 31 years old, married to Vera Hardmeier, who is also my business partner. We live in Basel, Switzerland and currently the temperature is about 30 degree celsius and weather is sunny. While I am an IT professional I am also an radio amateur (HB9SSB).

We run the company Micro Systems since 1990 when we started to import the OS-9 real-time operating system for the Atari ST computers to Switzerland. Before I worked as a UNIX engineer for Atari Corp. (remember the Transputer Workstation and the TT?)

I've been using Linux since 0.99 but at that time I used it only to play a little bit around with it. For the real UNIX experience I used BSD then. Now I have Linux on my IBM Thinkpad 600, on our intranet server, the internet server, even the firewall is built using linux and then we have a cluster of some Sparc Linux systems, mainly JavaStations. Because Linux allows me to work in all these areas and I never had to pay a cent for it, I feel that I owe the Linux community something. This is my primary reason to do voluntary work for linux.com.

Russel Ingram

I'm Russ. I've been working with computers since grade school. I started out programming in Basic around age 9. My interest continued throughout junior high and high school, mostly in programming, but also in telecommunications and computer aided drafting. From there I came here, to Laramie, as an Electrical Engineering student at the University of Wyoming. I changed my major to Computer Science after three semesters of Electrical Engineering, doubling the number of programming languages I knew and gaining a love for networking, the Internet, and the unix operating system (at the time I knew nothing of the many flavors of unix so it was all just unix). In summer of '95 I decided I wanted to try playing with networking and found that the cheapest way to go about it was with tcp/ip, 10Base2 and Linux, so I installed my first Slackware Linux/Windows dual boot machine. Since then I have gone back and forth between the two OS camps and had times when each of them seemed to me to be the best. A little over a year ago I had the priviledge of implementing the main server in my work place as a Linux box. That server is a Pentium 166 w/ 64M RAM and purrs like a kitten. It runs our Web server, Windows NT domain services, DNS, Proxy, and mail and hasn't had to be rebooted but for hardware upgrades and dumb mistakes on the part of the administrator (all in the name of learning of course). Networking remains my primary hobby (I'm working on a cluster in my living room this week). If it can be done on ethernet with linux and TCP/IP you can bet I've tried it at least once. Outside of computers I love to collect music (all genres), movies, and gargoyles.

John Eastman

I am John Eastman, hence the nick johne. No big surprises there. I am a software developer living in New Orleans, LA. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Centre College. If you know anything about this school, you will realize just how odd this is ( It is a small liberal arts college ). I like to think this gave me a bit of a computer resnisance flare. While I was in school, I had a professor who was obsessed with operating systems. He got me interested in Linux with my first distribution (slackware) in 1993. I have a (now old) 386 notebook that has been running Linux ever since. I worked my way through school developing conveyor control software for an electrical engineering company, as the sole developer. After I graduated in 1995, I moved New Orleans to work at Interactive Systems International, as a software designer. While there, I developed software for a variety of industries, but mostly for the petroleum industry. In January of this year, I finally got fed up with the politics of that place and decided to move on. I am currently working for a custom software development comapny that I started with several associates of mine, Radix Technologies. We have a busness that is centered around a real-time 3D engine that we have developed.

Outside of work, I mostly spend my time with my wife. I have been married now for about 7 months. This is ok with me, since I have now made her a Linux fanatic as well. After having fought with MacOS on her iMac for some time, I installed LinuxPPC on it. She is happy, and I now have Linux running on a G3! ( Which, by the way, is faster than my PII 300. )

Mooneer Salem

I'm Mooneer Salem (as you can see from my email) and I'm 14 years old. I have been interested in computers since I was a kid, and have been programming for 4-5 years. Recently I've been highly involved in a web-based instant messaging site called HyperNetMsg (http://hypernetmsg.hypermart.net/; will soon move to hnm.zzweb.com).

Also, I'm involved in a renegade operating system called Linux. I feel it surpasses Windows in quality and speed. My software projects reflect this, as I do not do much Windows programming. Rather, I mostly do console-based and Web-based application.

Stan Shivell

Im a 19 Year old Computer Science Major attending the University of Pittsburgh. My first linux distribution was RedHat 4.2, and now I run a Hybrid of Debian 2.1 and 2.2 (Its a pain but i like it) Im originally from Carlisle Pennsylvania and to keep busy in my free time I like to play Quake, and fool around with graphic design. I am currently the webmaster @ www.moseisley.com and have been doing that job for the past 3 or so years. Oh yea GNOME is cooler than KDE and WindowMaker is my window manager of Choice.

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