If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

siringo

@dbeato Thanks mate.

travisdh1

@mas said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller Thanks, Scott! I am an IT Service Provider serving small business clients in Illinois. A *NIX guy from way back when.

I have to ask, which flavor(s) of *NIX?

mas

@travisdh1 I started on AT&T System V and BSD UNIX 4.1 when the little software house on the prairie that I worked for in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois was creating a merged port of these systems to Gould hardware. I have since worked on a variety of AT&T UNIX flavors, especially when I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois. I later played with SCO Unix of several flavors, Minix, and on to FreeBSD and Linux. With Linux, I mainly followed the Red Hat line, so CentOS has gotten a lot of my attention. But doing some work in Ubuntu and Debian lately, also. And macOS too as my daily driver. And I'm just remembering some time spent with variants of these *NIX systems such as AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, etc.

How about yourself, @travisdh1?

dafyre

Welcome aboard @mas!

JaredBusch

@mas said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller Thanks, Scott! I am an IT Service Provider serving small business clients in Illinois. A *NIX guy from way back when.

Get off my turf!

scottalanmiller

@mas said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller Thanks, Scott! I am an IT Service Provider serving small business clients in Illinois. A *NIX guy from way back when.

Illinois has a strong representation around here!

nadnerB

@siringo said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Brand new around here. I see some people here I know of from elsewhere.
Currently enjoying what must one of the last few beautiful sunny days down here before winter sets in for 4 solid cold miserable months.

G'Day @siringo!
Nice to have someone from the same continent

travisdh1

@mas I can only claim IRIX in the *NIXs. Also had to deal with OpenVMS. Seems I'm a bit younger than you as I didn't get started till the 90s. Ever since I've been a RedHat, CentOS, Debian, and now Fedora is replacing CentOS as my go-to choice.

siringo

@nadnerb Hi Mate. What state are you from?

nadnerB

@siringo said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@nadnerb Hi Mate. What state are you from?

Out in the sticks of WA. You?

siringo

@nadnerb Ha. I'm out in the sticks in Vic, down the south west. There are a lot of sticks in WA, whereabouts roughly, without giving your position away

nadnerB

@siringo said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@nadnerb Ha. I'm out in the sticks in Vic, down the south west. There are a lot of sticks in WA, whereabouts roughly, without giving your position away

Very true, there are indeed many sticks.
East of the coast, west of the border, north of Albany but south of Kununurra...
that may or may not be helpful in narrowing it down.

Seriously though I'm fairly close to Perth (Wheatbelt)