New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
Authored Comments
// Obligatory admonishment that open source is not inherently more secure
// than anything else, and that active pen testing and code audits
// are always necessary.
I love that so many open source projects focus on security and security best-practices.
Very cool. After discovering Linux on my own, I took a weekend course on Linux at a community college, taught by a literal mountainman (lived on a farm in Yellowstone, raised llamas, had a UNIX beard), and it was the most amazing two days of my life. I keep wishing I could offer a course locally so I could be that guy for someone else, but then I'd have to raise llamas.
My first Linux was Slackware 12, but I updated quickly to 12.1, which was released shortly after my first install. 12.1 solved a wifi driver issue I was having, during which time I learnt to compile kernels because I didn't know about modprobe.
Prior to that, I'd been running...let's call it a "proprietary UNIX" in earnest for about a year, so compiling stuff on Linux from source was actually *easy* by comparison.