About Me

I first became interested in Linux in 2000 when I saw RedHat, Mandrake and may be other distributions being sold as cheap box sets in one of my local bookshops. Unfortunately I never managed to get any distribution working properly so I gave up and returned to Windows.

At the beginning of 2010, my father, who had taken up an interest in computing upon his retirement, told me he was using Ubuntu Linux and shortly after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on an old Dell PC which I purchased in 2005. Although upgraded, this PC saw regular use until just before the release of Precise Pangolin when it was reluctantly retired from service.

I joined the Ubuntu Forums in May 2010 and did quite a bit of lurking until I started beta testing Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat. After a short time away from the forums I started testing Natty Narwhal from the alpha 2 stage through to the final release and also tested Oneiric Ocelot from before the release of the first alpha, and both Ubuntu and Kubuntu for the entire development cycle of Precise Pangolin.

From the start of the development cycle of Quantal Quetzal I plan to always have a copy of the current development release available to monitor progress and changes although I will no longer be involved in testing and bug reporting to the extent that I used to be.

I am currently using Kubuntu 12.10, Lubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 and testing Kubuntu 13.04.

Primary Interests

I spend most of my "on-line" time in the support sections and the next release section of the Ubuntu forums and can occasionally be found on various Freenode IRC channels.

I am also a licensed amateur radio operator, call-sign G4MBY, formerly G6AVH although currently inactive. I am looking at ways to combine my interest in amateur radio with that of Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

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