The Front Page

By Heather Stern

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Tux has been Linux's mascot since shortly after the release of the 2.0 kernel. He's been known to be quite the fellow for the ladypenguins, and A Brief History Of Tux - So Far will surely tell you more than you needed to know about this dashing fellow. All too often, it's a working vacation for him, but he's considering a hiking trip or a cruise sometime this Summer.

 

Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor Gal.

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Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learning English. By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administrator for the home... Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personal computers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other pet. Except it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most everywhere today...

Heather is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in Windows related tech support than most people have spent with their computers. (Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When she discovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran Linux regardless of what was in use at work.

By 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the "strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. Moving onwards, it's safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner... She took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has been slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since.

Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called The Programmer's Daughter.