...making Linux just a little more fun!
Shadowman is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.. We don't know what stormy thoughts he truly has of the other - "red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailors delight", perhaps.
centOS plugs itself as the Community Enterprise OS, and intends to be and remain binary compatible with... ummm, a Certain North American Software Company.
No relation at all to the Taiwanese company CENTOS which makes internal and Cardbus peripherals. I didn't know you could get SATA support in pc-card form... yummy!
The "penny" I've offered for these thoughts is drawn by Heather Stern using the Gimp, based on a photo of a real penny, a monitor from the NeXTstep family of icons, the text circle script-fu, beveling tricks, some gradient and alphamasking tweaks, and the word portion of the centOS logo stretched and mangled by Curve Bend (found under Filter/Distorts) with some correction of its outer edges by the perspective tool.
My friend silentk online (Pete Savage) provided the photographs of UK cloudscapes. If you have need for photos for open source projects, he has been taking photos for a couple of years now and has a considerable collection. He can be mailed at pete at progbox dot co.uk to make requests.
Tux is drawn by Larry Ewing using the GIMP.
Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor Gal.
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.