Hello from where null pointers go!

Unread post by **Subsentient** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:00 am

Hi, I originally came here to poke about over posts made for my init system Epoch (see sig), but the enticing signup process, the community vibe, and the feel of the ISO I span up in QEMU KVM a few minutes ago convinced me that I might want to hang around here.

My OSes:
I don't use Debian of any sort on my x86 at the moment, although I have an eMac G4 with Debian PPC. I run a homebrew source-based distro (no, it uses a few LFS instructions, but it's not LFS) that uses my init system. It's got no package manager, so, I have to compile everything and zip it up into a squashfs image and install that onto my machines. I prefer XFCE 4.x because I really like a full featured GTK desktop. Mate is OK but XFCE is easier to compile and I like thunar better, so I use XFCE.

My development:
I'm a wimp who uses Geany unrepentantly. I love Geany. Deal with it.

My occupation:
Making sure you lose the remote just to find it in your pocket minutes later.

My back story:
I'm a 19 year old neckbeard who keeps shaving off his neckbeard. I started with Linux in '08 with Damn Small and an hour later Ubuntu 8.04. I switched to Fedora at version 10, and I stuck with that until just recently last month when the second revision of my homebrew OS (first was 2012) proved stable enough to replace Fedora on my boxes. I switched partly to run from red hat and partly because I was sick of yum update blowing away my init system for systemd. I believe in public domain software, am right-in-center on most political stuff besides economic (socialist), and I'm vegetarian, but not vegan.

I hang out on Freenode and I'm heavily involved with the slashdot fork Soylent News. You can meet my IRC bot aqu4 on Freenode or Soylent's IRC network.

I'm looking forward to trolling the crap out of you all while simultaniously bugging you to support Epoch.

-SubsentientneitnesbuS

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:03 am

^ nice intro. Cool stuff about your source-based distro. When it comes to neckbeards we welcome experiments of every kind. Welcome to the grill, Sub.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:04 am

That's a great intro.
Welcome to le grill.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:08 am

Perfect intro, perfect guy. You are more than warmly welcome to the grill and of course we will give Epoch a fair trial. Definitely.

Interesting bit about the source-based distro. Some of us (namely Pidsley, Gekko and myself) have more or less intensive experience with stuff like LFS or throwing together bits and parts from here and there, so I see you fit in perfectly!

Unread post by **pidsley** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:12 am

Welcome to the grill Subsentient. Just out of curiosity, which bbq spin did you run in a VM?

Unread post by **Subsentient** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:18 am

I see what you did there with that edit, I think it was Gangbang i686. Whatever the default sourceforge is.

EDIT: I'm in IRC now :^)

Unread post by **dkeg** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:50 am

Great intro. Always great to have a new member contribute right away. Enjoy. And see you around on IRC as well, though not sure how the time-zones align.

Welcome! Don't forget the scrot!

Edit: I hadn't gotten that far yet

Unread post by **Pony** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:33 am

Welcome to the grill, Subsentient! It's good to have you here!

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:57 pm

Love the intro, welcome to the grill, Subsentient. Looks like you will fit right in here.

Unread post by **RandomCharacter** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:29 pm

Welcome, Subsentient!

Tim

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:40 pm

out of curiosity: where are you from?

19 years old eh? you are probably the youngest one here. pretty impressive score so far already! have fun :)

Unread post by **vic** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:22 pm

Ok, ok, I am dealing with it, Geany you say...hmmm I quite like that one, so welcome and grill your beard off. May the kernel be with you :)

Unread post by **gutterslob** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:45 pm

So you somehow find the time to shave AND create your own init system? Impressive.

Unread post by **Alad** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:28 pm

Welcome, good to have you around. :)

Unread post by **Subsentient** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:34 pm

rhowaldt wrote:out of curiosity: where are you from?

19 years old eh? you are probably the youngest one here. pretty impressive score so far already! have fun :)

Thanks, I'm from Arizona USA, near Phoenix. 115F degree days are normal here in June. The joke is that we have two seasons, summer and hell. Summer is when Christmas is and hell is the rest of the year.

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:51 pm

^ Haha, I know what you speak of, I spent my childhood in Tucson. Monsoons and flash floods are coming soon... ;)

Unread post by **Subsentient** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:06 pm

Speak for yourself. Up here we get like 5 days of what you call 'rain' followed by two days of what you call 'thunderstorms'.

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:46 pm

Actually, yeah, now that you mention it, on the infrequent trips we took into/through Phoenix when we were there, I remember it seeming even hotter and drier than Tucson. It would rain so hard at times in July when I was a kid, that my brother and sister and I would go outside and take mock showers. Good times.

Unread post by **paolo** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:14 am

Hi and welcome Subsentient !

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:26 pm

thanks Subzero, always good to learn a bit more about our forum members :)
have fun!

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