User:Starshine~enwikiversity

who is this person...
Heather Stern has so many Linux t-shirts you cannot even think about counting them, and a red straw hat that might actually be more well known than she is.

She is active in a huge number of Linux related activities in the Silicon Valley (west coast, USA). Online in IRC, she's also mildly active in two UK based Linux User Groups, the wiki project MoinMoin and is considered a friendly catalyst on several channels on freenode.

If that wasn't social enough she's also highly connected in the US west coast's science fiction fandom, and helps run conventions. Within that community, she's known basically for two things, filk music (having been a Guest of Honor at Coppercon 2007), as well as filk committee or coordinator for a number of past conventions) and internet lounges (the rules: you provide the link and the means for the crew to come to your convention, and power for the silicate lifeforms, and we'll beam in). No longer well known for her huge button collection.

About me on my own site

 * Homepage (beware! dusty!) - http://www.starshine.org/star/

I've helped many a linux soul get their system going the first time, or tuned up, at one or another installfest. (HantsLUG calls theirs a Bring-A-Box. BSD people call theirs installathons. Same thing.)

About Linux

 * Favorite Distro
 * depends, what do you need to use it for? wicked grin


 * First Linux
 * Point 99 patchlevel... uh, was it 10 or 14, I forget. But I didn't install that; my hubby did, on our triple boot 386 - the other two being Dos/Win? (3.1) and OS/2.


 * First Distro
 * Soft Landing Systems. 44 floppies. Ages to download. Wow, a real installer.


 * First Linux geeky thing done for pay
 * install Red Hat 3.03 in front of 4 other techs so we could all cover dumb antivirus questions from Linux dual booters.