====== About me ======

{{:wiki:user:panjo-avatar.png?direct |}}You can find out all about me on my website at http://harishankar.org/. 

I also manage a literary discussion forum at http://literaryforums.org.

I am quite a private person and I am not too keen on sharing personal information online, so prepare to be disappointed ;-)
=====My History with Linux=====

I am a long time GNU/Linux user (since around 2001-2). My first distribution was (the legacy) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux|Red Hat Linux 6.2]] based distribution that came with a computer magazine. Since I couldn't partition my hard disk at that time, I installed it on an image file in DOS/Windows partition and used boot floppies which kept getting corrupted frequently. Later I used [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin|loadlin]] until I finally got a new hard-disk to partition properly for Linux use. Then I had to contend with LILO and its 1024 cylinder problem. Those days, for me, just booting into Linux was a major achievement.

The first serious Linux distribution I used was Debian Sarge when it was still ''testing''. My main distributions these days are Debian sid (primary use) and Slackware 64-bit CURRENT (for development/testing purposes).