Hello Robbie & Cat5 Orchestra!

Yay, thank you for the viewer points+award - and for showing my voice-over contest video on Episode 216. :-)

You have given me so much already with your show, I can honestly say it has changed my life during the last few years. Time for me to actively contribute when there's a chance.

I'm coming from an DOS/Windows background reaching back to 1986 (my first IBM-compatible with MS-DOS 2.1) and working as a windowsy admin / supporter at the local university.

Before Cat5, testing some older Suse distros never did it for me, due to the clumsy installation, the "ugly" looking desktop, problems with missing drivers and such.

But then came Category 5. :-) Robbie, you really opened my "windows" and made me explore the world of Linux more seriously and successfully. Many of my machines at home (on hardware and virtualbox) already run Linux [travel netbook, download machine, office/mail pc, local php/mysql dev box,... and a storage server being planned].
Plus, after more than a decade, I kind of fell in love with the command-line again, this time not on DOS, but on Linux. I recently discovered many cool helpers [like wget, curl, nmap, tinyproxy,...] that I could even use at work.

So, after all, the Linux fanboys were right. Linux rocks. And so does Category 5. :-D

Thank you for making the difference!
Happy yodels and greetings!

Swiss...