User:Saigkill

About me

Name: Sascha Manns
OpenSUSE Ambassador for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Born: 1.10.1979 in Mayen (Rhineland/Germany/Europe/Earth/Solar-System/Orion Arm/Milky Way/Local Group/Virgo-Supercluster)
Webside: http://saschamanns.gulli.to (German)
Blog: Saigkill's Backtrace
openSUSE-Blog: Lizards
Jabber: saigkill@jabber.org
ICQ: 173607000
IRC: saigkill @ (Freenode)
Mail: saigkill {AT} opensuse {DOT} org
Interview "People of openSUSE": http://news.opensuse.org

Why 'saigkill'?

This was an Typing Error. I'd like to write "sigkill", but my Fingers are faster, and they are typed "saigkill". That's all Folks...

Backround

• From 1992-1995 Beginning in Assembler (I tipped the Listings from my Computer Magazine (64'er for Commodore C64)), BASIC
• From 1994-2005 Softwareprojects for the following Operating Systems: GEOS(C64), PC/GEOS (first release of my own free Software), LINUX.
• From 1995-1998 Training to Merchant
• From 1998-2000 Merchant
• From 2000-2007 Priest, Social Worker, House Painter & Carpet Layer, Security- Dangerous goods safety adviser (All Jobs simultanly ;-) ).
• From 1996-2006 Betatester for Microsoft and WTBTS
• From 1996-2006 Author in Print Media: Economic Science, Computersecurity.
• From 2007-now Author for Wikipedia
• From 2008-now Bugreporter for KDE & openSUSE Project
• From 2008-now Public Relations Management Open-News-Network e.V.
• From 2008-now Member of Chaos Computer Club e.V.
• From 2008-now Member of the Marketing Team by openSUSE
• From 2008-now openSUSE Member
• From 2009-now Member of the openSUSE Features Screening Team

Languages

• German (DE) :-)
• English (EN) learned read and a little bit write
• Russian (RU) learned read and a little bit write
• Tschek (CS) learned read

First steps with SuSE

My first Contact with LINUX was SuSE 6.2. A Friend gives me an CD-Bundle, and on the same Day i deleted my Hard-Disk, and installed SuSE. But after the Installation i make "Big Eyes". LINUX was very different to Windows. I fight the next days with LINUX, i read the Admin and the Userhandbook, and thought :"Shit". I was very afraid, and deleted Linux, and make my old Windows on it. But one year later i become an new CD through my subscribet Computer Magazine. I was interested, and killed my Windows. Then i installed Linux, and was happy. Many drivers was updated, and i can work with him. I learned more about Suse, and since that Day i have only Linux on my Computer. In the next months i tryed different Distributions. Mandrake, Debian, and Red Hat. But i comes back to SuSE. I like his stability, good usability and good feeling- :-)

Jump to the opensuse-Project

Since 2007 Year i supported User in Mailinglists, Forum and Usenet. Since Issue 44 from Weekly-News i worked in this Team. Now i was agreed as openSUSE Member. Since 03/2009 i become an Member in the openSUSE FATE Screening Team.

Packaging

Actually i`m filling my Repository with Packages. My Repo is placed in: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/saigkill/ . Also i build for the following Repositories:

• Factory:Contrib Repository (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/standard).
• KDE:KDE4:Community Repository (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community)
• KDE:Community Repository (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community)

Whitepapers

• WeeklyNewsSurvey

My recent Links

User:Saigkill/Links

Other Projects

1. Chaos Computer Club
2. Radiotux
3. Open-News-Network (Usenet-ISP)