About Me
Hello, world! Welcome to my website. Do make yourself comfortable.
I, Shashank Sharma, a.k.a LinuxLala, am a Linux evangelist. I started using Linux when I was 11 years old and have been promoting Linux in schools and among friends for the past seven years.
My first distribution was Slackware. The days of staying up late at night to ‘play’ with Slackware, coming home from school and reading notes prepared by dad during the night are still remembered fondly.
I am very passionate about collaborative software and wish for more of FOSS in education. The current situation of forcing students to learn proprietary software is sad. I believe a “vendor-name” free curriculum should be developed, where respective schools/colleges/students can decide which software to study.
I became a professional writer in July 2004, when my first article was published on LinuxJournal. I now primarily contribute to SourceForge’s Linux.com. I’m the co-author of the recently published book, Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. I’m also a guest lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi — one of India’s premier IT schools, where I teach Open Source related courses.
Free and Open Source Software licensing is very close to my heart and is the surest way to get me to talk for hours. I’m quite comfortable with the command-line and have contributed many articles to the CLI Magic series at Linux.com
I love Star Trek, and have been hooked on since the early days of TNG. I enjoyed Voyager and TOS and was a regular with Enterprise before it was unceremoniously pulled off.
You can reach me at linuxlala (AT) gmail.com