Skyzim

About

About Skyzim:

Skyzim.com was established in 2009 and started its life as a free, remotely hosted blog on WordPress.com under the name of Unter-Hund. Due to growing demands for bandwidth, hosting, and customization, Skyzim was launched on it’s own hosted server.

Oh, and by the way: All the content I provide on Skyzim is free-of-charge, so if you have a minute, help support the site by clicking on the occasional advertisement.

About Myself:

My name is Erich, I am a bit of a tech obsessed person who likes to buy new technology as often as possible. I’m the kind of guy who likes to do tweaking to a system and I often overclock/modify most of my stuff.

Picture of myself, from sometime around mid-2009

I like Linux and anything to do with open source. I’ve also done a bit of work in Photoshop. I hope that you enjoy reading through the blog, and I hope you check back often.

Also, I love listening to all kinds of music. Just in case you couldn’t tell from the picture.

Some history:

I’ve been using Linux for about 5 years now. My first distribution was Fedora Core 4 on an old Gateway E-3000 with 128mb of RAM and a Pentium 1 processor. It was slow as a dog but it got me started in the world of Linux, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Just a sample of some of the distributions I’ve tried over the years include Fedora Core, Knoppix, Debian, Damn Small Linux, Dream Linux, Zenwalk, etc.

I tend to get bored of using the same old desktop rather quick, which is probably why I’m always installing a new distribution, but it’s a great way to try out all the different flavors.

I’ve switched back and forth between KDE and GNOME over the years, even using Fluxbox now and then, but I’ve currently settled down with a simple GNOME DE running Compiz-Fusion on both of my Linux machines.