Kicking off...

Well I have the idea of starting my own blog for quite some time, but somehow never got to it.

While there is enough happening to write about.. 

Let's start off with an introduction. My name is Frits van der Holst, living close to the Rotterdam Harbor (in the Netherlands). I am A Linux/OSS enthusiast for approx 14, 15 years now and have moved my professional career into that direction. As a hobby I am an amateur musician, started off playing pop/rock and recently moved to playing Jazz.

Professionally I am now Linux / Open Source specialist. Stuff I do:

• Linux training for various customers.  
• Linux / OSS consultancy / support / Trouble shooting
• (Software) configuration management consultancy / support.
• Various presentations on Linux/ OSS and do write articles.

I do visit conferences regularly like: Fosdem, T-dose, LAC, NLUUG, SFD etc... 

For my music hobby I use OSS software fully to support me in making sheet music, rehearsing, recording, etc. My 'music notebook' runs Ubuntu Studio (not the best audio distribution but it works for me).

I do all my computing/ hacking whatever on Linux (whether my employer likes it or not..). 

So there is a lot going on and I do want to write about that. Writing articles is hard work and not fit for everything I run into or want to write about. Twitter is nice for short messages but I can't fit everything in 144 chars so with this Blog I try to fill the gap between the two.

Finishing off this first entry.. these are my coordinates:

Linkedin: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/fritsvanderholst/

Twitter:   https://twitter.com/FritsvanderH

I'll be back soon with some tech blogs.

Frits