Good Evening. My name is Marcus Moeller and I want to let you know a bit about myself # hacker bio I was born 1976 in Western Germany. My parents gave my brother and me a Commodore 64 when I was 10 and the first lines of code have been written with 12. I had a 300 baud modem and an 'Akustikkoppler' to access mailbox systems and soon became my own Sysop, leading 'Trancentral BBS' and the 'Digital Underground' demo group. Commodore Computers (C64 / Amiga) have been my favourite platform for quite a long time. In 1994, things began to change. With Linux I have suddenly found a good, hackable and community driven operating system for my x86 PC which I felt in love with, so I soon installed my first version of Slackware Linux and got Usenet modem access through a local university. In the late 90s I have started to create my own Linux Distribution called 'Bonzai Linux'. It was based on Debian Potato/Woody and fit on a 180 MB mini CD. This was quite cool as I could take a fast installable and well pre-configured Linux Desktop with me, being able to linuxify on a lot of PCs at any time ;) I was involved in Debian's boot-floppies and in early d-i development. As I was unsatisfied with the d-i development direction and some decisions that have been taken by Debian maintainers I decided to discard and went back to my beloved Slackware (d-i is a code monster!). From 'Bonzai' came easys GNU/Linux which is still continued by some motivated developers. easys is a Slackware based distribution with a new unique installation system called YaLI and a QT based configuration management system called ALICE. For me, long term support was always important, as I do not want to re-install/upgrade every half year. Pat offers updates for very old Slackware Versions, so Slack seems to be a good choice. But as business was getting tougher, things began to change: # business bio 1998 I started working as System Administrator at a local university. I was responsible for their Linux/Solaris and NT network infrastructure and created a PXE booted remote Solaris student-room where about 50 pupils where able to work on a single machine. My thesis was about network monitoring using Nagios. After qualification I started working at a system integrator which is now part of the Bechtle group. I have contributed to a firewall appliance called BenHur and mixed Linux solutions. As we have been using Red Hat in customer szenarios, CentOS seems to be a good alternative. Soon, it became my favourite Desktop and Server OS, too. It offers a lot of features that are missing in Slackware, like a good default package selection, dependency tracking, GNOME ... In 2008 I decided to no longer take part in niche distribution development and to contribute to the well-known CentOS projects instead. Best Regards Marcus