-.Random bits about me.-

I am Jesús Guerrero and I live in Spain.

I studied informatic engineering in the Córdoba University. I live in Lucena, a small city in the province of Córdoba. I knew about Linux and open source before that, from magazines and such things, however it wasn't until I was on the University when I started to actually develop a real interest in Linux as the great and mighty OS that it is. I was taught using many different Linux based OS, and several commercial Unix clones as well.

I have used many dozens of different Linux distributions over the years. The first Linux that I used seriously was probably an old version of SuSE, that I can't even remember. I used it in the college to develop in Java (language that I've come to hate nowadays, but that's another story). After that, I've used lots of distributions, and finally settled in Debian for a long time. By that time I was using dial-up, which was the only thing that was available around here.

One day, someone told me about Gentoo, and it was love at first sight. I use it since 2004 and I am really happy with it. I've contributed as I could, based on my skills and available time. Recently, I've become a Gentoo Forum Staffer. Great forums, by the way.

I really love the concept of free software, but I am not an MS hater, each one can do as s/he pleases, as long as they don't impose anything on me. Besides that, and in the line of the Nietzsche's book On the genealogy of Morals, I think that Linux is a good OS, not in opposition to the evil M$ or something like that, but based on its own strengths.

I also like music, as long as it's not the top ten of the moment :p My tastes range from P. I. Tchaikovsky and J. S. Bach to Metallica (pre-Load era), Smashing Pumpkins, Paco de Lucía or Massive Attack. I really love jazz, both classical and progressive, and even though I am a guitarist, I enjoy virtuous bassists as well, like Jaco Pastorius (well, we won't see him again I guess), Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten or Abraham Laboriel. There are many more, but I don't want to bore you with my stories.

I am an amateur guitarist, and have played on several bands since I was sixteen or so, don't really remember. Right now, I play on a band named Yobonobo, it could be classified as rock and roll, though there's a lot of mixed styles in there, bits of jazz, pop, punk rock and some other things that are not easy to catalogue. I am not much into labels, anyway. My buddies have played in lots of bands of very different styles, and even though most tracks are created by the one who writes these lines, everyone puts his own stains into the mix. You can hear us in the Yobonobo web site, all the songs we've recorded up to this date can be downloaded for free, and are covered under a Creative commons license. More details on the Yobonobo web site.

-.Some -random- things that I dislike.-