Welcome to Linux Depot

Welcome to the Linux Depot, my home for the Linux community. As a proud Linux user for coming on 10 years now I felt it was time to give back to the community and show my support, that and you can't really call yourself a geek if you don't own a domain with Linux in the name ;)

This site contains my blog about all things Linux, no doubt with a mention of technology. It also contains some reviews of different Linux programs that i've played with, which may be of some use. Finally I have the Projects and Hardware sections, which detail some of the things i've been working on and some of the devices I have been fortunate to play with. Hopefully some of the information/programs on this site will be of benefit to Linux users, and save them some headaches were possible :-)

I've added an ad-banner at the top and botton, and a search for this site. If you like anything on here please feel free to click on one of the ads, as it helps pay for the site hosting, bandwidth isn't cheap these days :-( Hopefully the adverts are semi-relevant to the content on here.

About Me

I currently work for a global IT company providing hardware and software support for numerous applications and platforms, along with helping a growing number of users migrate to Linux. I've been using Linux since age 15 and have used various distributions ranging from Slackware to Gentoo to Ubuntu. While I currently use Ubuntu for the desktop I still use Gentoo to build very small custom environments for specific tasks. I find it works great for things like PXE clients etc.

I have also been working with embedded systems and SBC's such as the Bifferboard and Sheevaplug as the technology and performance of these has increased quite significantly over the past few years. I currently use an ARM platform to run my home server, along with helping out with OpenWRT development whenever possible. This has also led me to experiment with numerous access points and their internals, trying to squeeze as much performance out of them as possible.

Thanks for visiting :-)