The LXer Team
Dave Whitinger - Founder
Dave has a long history in the Linux community, having begun work at Red Hat in 1997, co-founding Linux Today in 1998, working with LWN.net in 2002 and finally launching LXer in 2004. Today he spends most of his time operating Dave's Garden, the largest gardening website online. He continues to participate at LXer as time allows.
Bob Whitinger - Publisher
Bob has been involved in web publishing since 1997 and is currently applying his software magic to Mobile Tech News and Home Tech News. He is an active Linux and Open Source advocate and user, currently operating and administering Linux servers on three continents. In this interesting twist to tradition -- Bob is pleased to accept the passing of the publisher's hat from son, Dave. He has spent the last 34 years in the software industry and is the force behind Web Market, Inc. He is also a pilot and flies his Mooney wherever and whenever he can, having logged over 5,000 hours of flight time. Go Bob! And welcome to LXer.
Scott Ruecker - Editor-in-Chief
Scott Ruecker lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He works at a large Telecommunications company and plays the Drum-kit in an alt-rock band every Saturday night. First exposed to FOSS when he heard about "This Linux Thing" in 2002. Got his start on Fedora Core 1, SuSE and Kubuntu. He currently uses Debian, PCLinuxOS and his all purpose favorite, DSL for his really old machines.
Hans Kwint - Senior European Editor
Hans reads and translates English from Dutch, German and French. He's our senior European editor and lives in the Netherlands. His articles have gained in popularity since joining LXer as an editor in the fall of 2005. He has a solid background in system administration and prefers the use of Gentoo Linux.
Sander Marechal- Editor
Sander Marechal graduated as a business engineer but decided to go into IT instead. He is currently employed as an application developer for an internet marketing firm in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands and runs Lone Wolves, a small web development shop and FOSS blog in his spare time. Aside from Linux, his passions include rock/metal music and cooking. Starting out on Suse 9.3 and Ubuntu, he now runs Debian on both desktops and servers.
Paul Ferris - Contributing Editor
Paul Ferris (FeriCyde) is an IT professional with over 15 years of *nix experience, and over 7 years of that implementing Linux in enterprise-class situations. He has been discussing and advocating Linux for more than 7 years in various publications, on-line and in print. He's an engineer, Linux community member, husband, father and more.
Wolfgang Lonien - Contributing Editor
Wolfgang Lonien lives in Bremen, Germany and runs a blog and TheDebianUser, a community site for the users of the Debian operating system. He has worked with computers since 1984 and has run only free (libre) software since before this millenium. Being a musician in a former life, he now works as a systems and network administrator in health care IT.
Steven Rosenberg- Contributing Editor
Steven Rosenberg got his first taste of Unix in the late '80s, writing many an essay in vi and formatting them with nroff -- when he wasn't using talk or mail -- on adm3a terminals as a literature major at UC Santa Cruz. Now a copy editor for the Los Angeles Daily News, he began using Linux heavily in early 2007, and has been blogging about it ever since. His blogs include Click