User Feedback :: Thanks DSL for one great year..
John, Robert..
I wanted to share my 1000th post with you..
Just a word of thanks for the opportunity to serve,
and appreciation for your sharing and time ..
Kent
congrats, you've officially been here too much.
Go away! 
...wait, doesn't me replying to this mean...
i need to go rethink my existance.
-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed
Kent,
Thanks for the kind words. It has indeed been an incredible year for DSL. I just looked and I see that I officially joined Oct 4, 2003, so I have been here just over a year. John, has indeed created an incredible system. DSL now has nearly twenty spin-offs, validating John's ideas and code. I thank John, for allowing me the opportunity to contribute to DSL. John and I work well together having a shared interest in small apps and systems. Most of my early contributions were based on prior experiences. But mostly now the ideas come from the members that grace these forums. I feel so strongly about this, that I have kidded Kent and John that these forums should be called the "University of DSL". I won't try to begin to name all the names of members that I would like to thank. We have great forums and much information that is shared so freely and very helpful members. When I had the myDSL system in mind, the "my" part was for the users. It not only only that you can create "your" custom myDSL without the remastering process, but that the users could easily contribute extensions, thereby participating in part of the system creation. I think that name and the concept has proved more successful that I had thought. Thanks go to you, Kent for being the gatekeeper of the "flood" or user contributed extensions. This really is has become a "group" thing. The best small distro, great extensions, and great forums, or as John has stated "have your cake and eat it to". OK. Enough of this kind of talk. Now back to work!
Robert
Since we are getting sentimental, I'll share my story.... 
I looked back and see that I registered on Dec 31, 2003. Many of you who have been around here for awhile know that I started a not for profit organization in Sept, 2003 called No Computer Left Behind, Inc. My goal was to refurbish old computers and give them to needy children by working through local schools. It started as a church ministry. Up to that time I was strictly a PC user with NO development experience whatsoever. I quickly realized that the reason many people are not doing this is because of software. NFP's were having to pay $5 per license for Win98. That doesn't sound like much until you take 5 x 1000 computers. I didn't want the organization's success to be determined by whether I had $5 to put a PC together. I had heard about Linux and thought I would investigate. As anyone new would do, I looked at RedHat, Mandrake, Vector, etc....but they required too much horsepower. I knew that I would be getting tons of PI 133 type machines. After some searching, I came across DSL and was intrigued. I thought it might work but I was clueless on how to use it. So, I contacted a few LUG's thinking I could easily find some Linux "geeks" who would want to tackle this with me. Well, I was wrong!! When I mentioned DSL they were not interested in helping. They always recommended that I try to use fedora or suse and if a machine couldn't handle it, I should part it out!! I was frustrated but, very determined. I decided to roll up my sleeves and see what I can do. I believed I was being driven to do this.
I came to the DSL forum and started learning. The thing that really struck me was how friendly this forum was. People were very patient with me. Every once in awhile I would try another distro but always ended up back here. Now, almost a year later, I am a proud Linux "geek" who is tweaking his own OS that is based off of John's vision. I have a box with an insane number of partitions, multiple distros and a remastering environment. I think I have been officially converted!!
I will keep you all posted of some exciting things that are coming about because of this work.
John - Thank you so much for pushing your vision and sticking to your guns. I can't begin to tell you how much I have learned. It is fun to wow the IT guys at work. 
I have to mention the people who have been instrumental in guiding me....CappyCaffiene (where is he, anyway?), cbagger01, roberts, ke4nt1, TyphoonMentat, hasty, roadie, clacker...there have been many.
I can't wait to see what the future holds................
Chris
Hey Guys!
I know you all have read me say this before, but it *really* needs to be said again. Okay, I'll say it a little differently this time...
$John =~/^the spark that started the fire$/;
And that's about it.
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Seriously, you all fallowing DSLs development know how much time and work a core group of users are putting in. You all know how hard Kent is helping out the newbies. You know how much of the suggesting from the community end up in the distribution. You know how talented Robert is, and how much time he has pot in.
Congratulations Kent, 1000+ posts is a hell of a lot of helping.
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