Hello From South-East Michigan!

Hello Everyone,
 
First off let me say Thank You to Chad for putting out an entertaining and infromative podcast.
 
I am still fairly new to linux having installed my first distro a couple of months ago.  I first heard about Linux from a friend of mine in High School.  He had talked about how great it was and told me that I should try it.  Not knowing much about Linux, I went home and searched online where I could buy an OS.  I want to think that I paid something like $15 for a Debian Distro (I guess I was still naive to the whole FREE OS thing).  About a week later I got a package with 5 cd's in it.  I opened them up... and promptly lost them. 
 
It wasn't until late last year that I started getting interested in Linux again.  My wife and I went to the local Borders and I found a copy of Linux User and Developer magazine that had a live cd of PCLinuxOS 2007 on it.  I took it home, booted it up and was blown away!  I thought that it would be a lot more technical than it was.  I played around with it for a little while before I decided to try some other distros.  By this time I figured out how to burn an iso image and I downloaded a couple to try.  I had been listening to several podcasts (Linux Basement, of corse, and Going Linux) and decided to try out Ubuntu and absolutely loved the layout of it.  Unfortunatly while trying to resize some partitions I screwed up something and ended up having to reformat my entire computer.  It was about this time that I found out that PCLOS had put out a Gnome version and I decided to try that one out.  I currently have two 80GB hardrives on my computer; one is sharing WinXP and PCLOS 2007 (which I am thinking about blowing away) while the other drive is PCLOS Gnome as my main.
 
I look forward to chatting with everyone in the forums and hearing more Linux Basement!  Keep 'em coming Chad!
 
YNH