openSUSE:Board election 2011 platform template terrorpup
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Introduction and Biography
My name is Chuck âPUPâ Payne, a.k.a Terror PUP. I am an Ambassador for openSUSE. A member of openSUSE community. A end-user of openSUSE.
I got the name Pup in College. I wonât go into why, but itâs stuck with me. Terror Pup* came from me writing several poems about Lycanthrope that got publish and it was a name that I used when I was doing radio at the University of the Ozark. I kept the nick and used as my internet name. First starting at terrorp because back in the day you couldnât have a nick longer than 8 characters, but later started using the terrorpup.
My Background to openSUSE.
I been using openSUSE since the days when it was call S.u.S.E. I started with version 5.3 back in 1998. I came to openSUSE after a bad crash with Red Hat 5.1. I has started my path into Linux with Slackware 96 because at the time Macintosh OS 8 suck and it looked like Apple might go away. Being a Machead it scared me because I didnât like Windows 3.1/Dos. I wanted a NeXT box, but hey who had that kinda of money.
At the time I started with Slackware had no clue about how to compile software, a friend of my name David Nicklay, who I worked with at time at Avana Communications recommend that I moved from Slackware to Red Hat. I did, bought a copy of Red Hat 4.2 and was very impress with how easy it was to use rpmâs. I used it for about a year upgraded to 5.0 and then 5.1. One of things that I loved about Red Hat was the fact that I could get Real Player, but when I upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0, Red Hat didnât shipped Real Player with 5.1.
I was upset because Real Player back in the day was a great way to listen to music from around the world. I used it to listen a show from called âOne Night Stand by the Seaâ out of Japan. Plus, I was getting into Techno, and there were a lot of starting online radio station , plus Real Player was the easy to play MP3.
I was pissed. I tried to get XMMS install only to kill my box. I kid you not. So, I asked David to help me out again. He had helped me install the last two boxes for me. Remember, I was come from Mac with no Unix skills. The only programmer I have ever done to that day was BASIC and Apple BASIC.
I told David about my nightmare and he told me to go Microcenter , pick up a copy of Linux Distro called S.u.S.E. The box was going to cost me $35 bucks, but it will have everything I wanted and more.
I picked the box. It was a very large box. It has two book and 5 Disc. Red Hat only came with 2. I was amazed. Some many package I was really to start. I didnât get install until after three months of fighting with druid ( a type of fdisk). Once I had my workstation up, that was it took.
I have used other distro over the years. Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware, Ubuntu, Debian, Mempis, and Turbo Linux, only to use them for a short time and go back to openSUSE. I have played with others smaller distro, to many count.
I have push to people over the years openSUSE because of easy to use. YaST ( Yet another Set Tool) is the best configuration tool out there today.
I join the call for Ambassador in May 2009, because I saw it as a chance to give back to community. I am no way a programmer. I am System Administrator.
Computer in Genral
I got into computer by hanging out at Radio Shack. It the early 80â˛s there werenât a lot of personal computer out there. Radio Shack, had there Model III TRS-80. I would spend hours playing this text base game. I think it was Adam Scott Adventure called Haunted House.
I asked for a couple of years for a computer, but again there were expense back in the 80â˛s. On my 16th birthday my wish came true. I got Commode Vic 20 with a tape drive for backup. From there I move on the Atari 130XE, Atari 520ST, Macintosh PowerBook 145B, Macintosh Performa 476 and countless others.
I work with Macintosh OS, FreeBSD, BeOS (Haiku OS), Solaris, and of course Linux.
Computers started out as a hobby for me. Now it my blood.
Other Hobbies.
I like to write poems. Water Colors when I can. Cook. Photographer. Watch horror and sci-fi. I think I have watch 85% of the Zombie Films made today.
- FYI, Terror is not in the sense of Terrorist, but in Terror from Horror, I am a big horror movie fan (Esp. Zombies and Werewolves).
Major Issues
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