Posted 08/27/2007 at 12:44:22pm

After trying since 1995 to get away from Windows, using things like OS/2, Mandrake, Red Hat and BeOS, I heard about a linux flavor that was reputed to be a sort of conglomerate of other versions and an attempt to standardize Linux, called SUSE. Whatever the reasons for the projected, I downloaded a 7.x version on sometime in 2001 or 2002, and literally stopped using all Microsoft products that night. It was almost six months until I felt the need to boot into Windows, and then only to use Adobe Premier. Now, I use an OpenSUSE 10.2 OS as my primary work environment, with XP in a VM for the custom apps that I couldn't get running in a Crossover bottle. Here are the other details of my Linux Life: Distro:OpenSuse 10.2 (Gnome) Office:OpenOffice 2.1 IM:None, but I used to use GAIM Music: xine-ui Graphics: Gimp Video editing: MainActor (licensed) and Kino Gaming: SecondLife Windows Apps: Wine through Crossover Office Virtual Environment: VMWare Server Browser: Mozilla Firefox Email: Evolution Work: At work, Linux is my work environment. I access all of our windows servers using gnome-rdp, and smbmount for the filesystems. I use the linux consoles to ssh into our network switches. I use Linux's easily available snmp tools to monitor and manage the network. I use anjuta to write and test perl scripts. All of this I access from drop down drawers from the Gnome panel. Sadly, I now use Linux at home almost as little as I use Windows... ever since I bought and iMac!!!!!!