Howdy!

If you are watching this page with some graphical browser, you probably have guessed by now that I am a user of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
So your next question might just be: What is Linux? In that case I should politely ask: Where have you been? :-)

Linux is a computer Operating System for various architectures, mainly the Intel x86 series, Sun Sparc, Compaq (formerly DEC) Alpha, PowerPC and loads of others. It runs on architectures varying from the Palm III to parallized processor farms and is based on the UNIX operating system. Although it cannot be called Unix formally, it complies with most Unix standards, among which the POSIX standards.
Linux is actually only the kernel. It started out in 1991 as a hobby project from the (then) college student Linus Torvalds. Since he dumped his source code on the Internet, this hobby project got a little out of hand. :-)
Linux is normally distributed with many applications. The nice aspect here is that Linux and most of its applications are FREE. Free here is in the context of free speech, not of free beer. Free software is also often denoted as Open Source software. Besides Debian there are a few other well known Linux Distributions, like Red Hat, SuSE and Slackware. Also noteworthy are some special purpose distributions, many of them consisting of only one to three floppies. Examples here are tomsrtbt, The Linux Router Project and Trinux.

Why Debian, you ask? Well, here are a few of my arguments:

• The distribution is Rock solid, and the various parts actually do work together.
  
• The Debian organisation resembles the Bazaar model. Like someone on Slashdot once said: Debian is to Linux what Linux is to Unix.
  
• These guys got their politics straight. The core Debian distribution consist solely from FREE software.
  
• Well... D3B1@N RUL3Z!!!!!!! ;-)

For the record, this page does NOT require a graphical browser. As a matter of fact, I have even stolen a page from Kirrily 'Skud' Robert, which is best viewed with Lynx

What's more on this page:

• Personal and contact information
• Various assorted links, mostly Linux or Unix related, amoung which some dutch sites.
• A tribute to some people who made a difference, at least from my point of view :-)

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