Before I got into OSS I've used Windows like a regular common person. I believe every programmer should use Linux or at least know about it's potential. I've began with the Redhat distribution, but later neglected in favor of Debian's powerful packaging system.
I tried a lot of WMs - most of them are either bloated (kde, gnome), too minimal (blackbox), and/or miss features that WindowMaker has.
All your editors belongs to us. The concept that still kicks from 1984. I don't care if it's bloated. I've got addicted to it.
Because xterm sucks, and there is no better simple alternative.
I started with bash, then moved to tcsh because of the easier syntax, but then I've noticed how incomplete is tcsh. Some guy pointed me at zsh, and then I found what I've been looking for. Zsh is powerful, compatible to most of the syntax of the other shells, flexible, and has terrific line editing and auto-completions
zsh - one shell to rule them all.
Recently I've decided I should check Mozilla. Suprizingly I found it was better and faster than KDE3's konqueror.
The IRC client of choice. The only reason I use this is that I am too lazy to learn BitchX. I also contributed a hebrew-reversing patch to xchat, which turns out someone moved that piece of code to be used in LICQ. Open Source is so...
A simple, satisfying, Winamp clone. I don't need more than that.
January 2001
This was when I discovered Anime.April 2001
This is when my WindowMaker theme stablized into its dark fully customed form.June 2002
Here you can see me reading Linux's inode.c, plus listening to the Reservior Dogs Soundtrack, with slashdot in the background and a shell. The wallpaper is something I rendered using POV-Ray - two balls reflecting off each other on a marble surface. inode.c is licensed under the GPL.
