It's been a while since I've been here. Now I see a few more penguins around. Someone has Tux armed and dangerous as their avatar, and another has a Linux counter sig. I remember someone else wanted to try out Linux last year, and am quite interested on the progress, if any, that's been made. Would be nice to know what other people are using, I think.

I'm sporting a desktop built by myself using an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe with AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+, EVGA nVidia 7900 GT superclock KO, 2 GB of Corsair RAM with heatspreaders (DDR) and an M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound card housed in an Antec p180b (original) powered by an Antec TruePower Trio 550, cooled with a Noctua processor fan and stock case fans.

I'm purchasing a Zalman VF1000 for my current and future graphics cards (I think my current cooling isn't cool enough), Enermax Modu82+ to replace my current Antec PSU (motherboard is very power hungry, and >200W causes the TruePower to make a lot of noise), and I'm adding a second TB to my volume (1 TB isn't enough, actually 2 TB still won't be enough).

Currently I have a Gentoo 2007.0 using Gnome as my desktop environment. However, when the new hard drive arrives, I'll be switching to Arch Linux, using either xmonad or awesome as my window manager (no desktop environments for me).