hello

Hello,

I have just subscribed to this list, so, following the Tradition, I have 
to briefly introduce myself.

I am about 45, French.  I'm working as an independent geologist, mostly 
for mining exploration.  By doing so, I use a lot of database 
processing.  Historically, I've used dBase III and dBase IV a lot, a few 
proprietary specialised databases, then Crimosoft Access for some time, 
I also worked on Oracle databases; I adopted postgreSQL about 5 years 
ago and I became quite addicted.
Now, most, if not all, the data of the projects I'm working on, are 
stored in my postgreSQL database, with postGIS extension.
I also do quite a lot of GIS (historically, Mapinfo, ArcView, ArcGIS, 
some Grass; and now mostly qGIS).  And I use some proprietary software 
which connect to my postgreSQL database.

I use GNU/Linux since 1999, and I definitely stopped working with 
windows in 2006 (this was when I became independant).  All my work 
machines run on Debian, some BSD, and then a few various distributions 
here and there on old machines: some Mandrivas, PCLinuxOS, knoppix, an 
LFS, Mageia, etc.

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Pierre
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