Hello

[sm0ke42o]

Hi everyone!

Ive been a bit of a lurker here for a while now and I thought it was about time to introduce myself and become a more active member of the community. Like many of you I have been using computers since the 80's (circa MSDOS 6) and grew up on M$. I discovered Linux back in 2001 and tinkered with it as a secondary OS for several years before finally wiping Windows and installing Linux as my primary operating system a couple of years ago. Since then I have spent the majority of my time tinkering with my system, learning to program, and becoming a better sysadmin. Up until this point I have found plenty of things to keep me busy so that I mostly used the forums as a place to help me solve minor issues and find answers to my questions. Recently however, I have seen a sort of plataeu in my tinkering and I have started looking for more things to keep me busy and continue my Linux education. I figured the next logical step would be to give back to the community that has been such a great source of help and inspiration for me. To me, that means becoming a more active member of the forums (i.e. actually posting), triaging bugs in launchpad, helping those new to linux, etc...

So there it is and here I am. I hope to be as much help to all of you as many of you have been to me. Thanks for listening to my story and I look forward to getting to know all of you.

cheers.

[Habitual]

**wave**

[Oscar799]

Hello sm0ke42o,
Welcome to Mint Forum
There is a lot of useful information for new and not-so-new users here -> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 58#p302358
We have a Community site http://community.linuxmint.com/
For real-time help and discussion there are IRC channels,open MintMenu>Internet>XChat and you will be automatically connected to #linuxmint-help and #linuxmint-chat
Have fun with Mint

[tdockery97]

Welcome sm0ke42o.

[rivenathos]

Welcome to the forum!

[swarm]

Hi

Iam Pradeep Raju from India

[jesica]

hallo and welcome to the forum