Are you a Linux fanatic? Take this simple test and find out for yourself ...

Answer these simple questions and you will see what kind of Linux user you are. See the end of the test on how to count scores.

Q1. You have been using Linux

• for a few weeks, irregularly
• for a couple months, regularly
• for >1 year, (almost) exclusively
• forever - you co-developed the 0.0x kernel series

Q2. You use regular expressions

• '.. i use WHAT?'
• to find and delete files by name
• to find and delete files by content
• to find and delete other operating systems

Q3. You use:

• a boot disk for booting Linux
• a Win95 MSDOS-Mode icon for booting Linux via LOADLIN
• LILO/MILO/NILO to boot Linux
• a homemade EEPROM chip containing a special kernel with a BIOS replacement - no boot manager needed

Q4. Have you ever:

• compiled a program yourself?
• ... without reading any READMEs or HOWTOs?
• ... and edited a Makefile or #include statment before it worked?
• ported a program from another OS? ( from Windows? -> 20 extra points )

Q5. Your bookshelf contains:

• SuSE Linux Manual
• Linux for Dummies, Linux HOWTOs, or similar
• SAG / NAG / Kofler / OReilly collection / ...
• nothing - /usr/doc/* is enough

Q6. You bought a ZIP (or JAZ, MO, whatever) recently because you want to

• backup your batch downloads from www.teensluts.com
• backup your Word documents
• backup your LaTeX/Postscript/HTML documents
• knock over pens and stuff by placing them in front of the drive and ejecting disks

Q7. Your most frequently used file system is

• VFAT / FAT32
• ext2fs
• ext2fscompr, encryption patches for ext2, etc
• reiserfs, snapfs, tarfs, podfuk

Q8. Your biggest dilemma is

• boot Linux or Windows ...
• use LaTeX or Word Perfect ...
• use KDE or Window Maker ...
• use the AC or the AA patches ...

Q9. The first thing you do with a brand new computer is

• play around with the software that came pre-installed
• read the manuals and do the above
• lock yourself in your room and the above
• shove a Linux Boot CD in the CDROM and mke2fs /dev/hda1

Q10. The number 16 means

• your age
• the number of native Linux apps you use regularly
• the number of native Linux apps you compiled yourself and use
• the number of applications that are normally occupied with some task on your desktop

Q11. Your knowledge in writing bash or Perl scripts:

• you can start programs/pipe outputs
• you can configure an email filter
• you can upgrade your homepage automagically
• you can write a script that can sue Microsoft - and win

Q12. You are printing a letter, formatting a ZIP disk, compiling an application, copying a CDROM (to CDR), listening to a couple MP3s, rendering a POVray scene, and switching between three Netscape/XEmacs windows because

• your work must be finished by the morning and it's already 3am
• you want to impress some visitors
• your boss thinks you are lazy and you want to impress him
• it's a slow day today

Q13. If you want to buy a car, the first thing you look for is

• anti blocking system for the brakes
• airbags
• car audio with CD player
• the licence of the software in the chip that controls the gas valve

Q14. When watching a film, you

• cheer the good guys
• cheer the bad guys
• cheer the computer freaks
• ...
• only if they are using Linux

Q15. If you are still awake at 4am that's because

• you're that poor idiot from question 12
• you drank too much coffee
• that is your regular day schedule, and anyway, your sleeping bag is under the desk, so what's the problem?
• even after patching at least fifteen times, the kernel doesn't compile with ecgs and you promised a HOWTO on the kernel mailing list

Q16. What does your girl-friend / wife / .. say to your hobby?

• I have no idea, I haven't seen her since I bought the computer
• "Nothing..." (looking into email inbox)
• Which of my girlfriends do you mean? They don't agree...
• "Do you have a perfume that smells like computers? I want my husband to pay more attention to me ..."

Q17. What do all your female aquaintances have in common?

• They are all called *.JPG
• They all say 'boy, put the money on the table and sod off' in the morning
• They all speak some strange kind of language that doesn't contain common words like 'ROTFL', 'IIRC' and 'IMHO'
• girl friends? Ha! How would I be able to update all my homepages daily if I had a girlfriend? No time for that!

For a, b, c, d, you get 5, 10, 25 and 50 points respectively.