Hi all. I am Vivek Srivastava from India. I have recently passed out from an engineering college and have a offer from a bank to work as software engineer in next 3 months. I am a mechanical engineer by education, but have enough knowledge about c++ etc. I want to get seriously involved in linux development. I am presently working on a simulation project in Group Technology and C++ and will be free in 5 days for next 3 months to come and after that also I will have ample amount of time. I am a newbie in linux.. (very novice!!) but I have become very much interested in it recently. Though I tried to understand how things work in Linux, but things seem to be spread in a confusing way on the Internet. I was wondering if any one of you out there (most of you are experts.. I know) may be able to help me. I need a guide or a mentor to help me through...Please help. I want to be a serious developer in the open source community.... seriously!! :) .... and i am looking forward to a long term relationship with the person as guide/mentor.. I don't know what i will be able to offer in return.. but be assured.. i am a very hard working person.. so atleast you will have a worthy acolyte. :) I so much wish i had taken computer engineering and not mechanical. Waiting for replies. Bests, Vivek Srivastava