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Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia (Switzerland) near Baden, not too far from where the river Aare flows into the Rhine.

Linux

Career

• collected first experience with Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, but never really made the switch over to Linux.
• discovered Gentoo and loved it, for about a year on one PC and several Sun Ultra workstations. It taught me a lot about Linux and helped to complete the migration to Linux - great support community.
• found Ubuntu in it's late 4.10 days and was instantly upon it.
• running Ubuntu 7.04 on a Laptop (HP Compaq nc6000) and some Sun Ultra Workstations (for the fun of it)
• running Ubuntu 7.04 (with ubuntu-desktop) on a Shuttle SN95Gv3 barebone with an AMD Athlon 3000 (Venice).
• running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server with file services (NFS, Samba) on a very quiet old P-III 500.

Involvement

• actively contributing and helping in the Networking & Wireless and SUN SPARC sections of ubuntuforums.org

• occasional visits to the (former) local Linux User Group [http://www.lug-ag.ch/]

Education and Career

Education

• dropout in summer '96 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) [http://www.epfl.ch/], after two failures at first propaedeutic exams in electrical engineering.

• a short visit to Uni St.Gallen [http://www.unisg.ch/] turned out to be a dead end in spring '94.

• Matura '93 at Kantonschule Beromünster [http://www.ksb-lu.ch/]. Those were the golden years.

Jobs

• Network specialist at [http://www.swx.com/ SWX - Swiss Exchange] for five years and counting...

• IT supporter with [http://www.holcim.ch/ Holcim (Switzerland)] during almost five years ('96-'01)

Certifications

• [http://www.cisco.com/go/ccna CCNA] since February 2005

• complete and utter failure to become a [http://www.cisco.com/go/ccie CCIE] during summer 2005

Fields of Interest

professional

• Networking. TCP/IP, Routing, Switching, Firewalls (mainly Cisco-oriented)

• Network Management. HP OpenView Network Node Manager, CiscoWorks 2000

• Redundancy, fault-tolerance and resilience in networking
• unixoid operating systems
• the protocols of the Internet in general

private

• inline skating, motorcycling and airboarding [http://www.airboard.com/] in wintertime.

• Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld].

• Life, the Universe and Everything [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy].

• listening to what people (don't) say when they open their hearts to let grief, anger, pain, sorrow or old memories out.
• Goa and Psychedelic Trance music and parties, Didgeridoo.
• Sarah