1 Operating systems always have been my favourite computer
2 related topic, so I know and use many:
4 * **Linux** -- I've been packaging software in several LinuxDistros, including
5 Fedora and Ubuntu. I've also put together and distributed custom Linux distributions
6 for embedded projects, for the OLPC and for the AmigaComputer.
8 * **NetBsd** -- I've become an official developer with commit access around the time
9 NetBSD 1.0 came out. I created a custom NetBSD distribution on CD called the
10 AmigaUnixCompendium. See also OpenSourceDeveloperRole for some of my contributions.
12 * **Sun Solaris** -- I've been using it since Solaris 7, but a
13 few years ago I've lost interest in it because of lack of
14 development. Besides building hundreds of GNU and other
15 packages to replace almost all of Sun's userland, I successfully
16 ported the early versions of KDE 1.x and 2.x to Solaris.
18 * **MacOsX** -- I know this system quite well and have been
19 using it as a user and developer until mid-2006, when Apple
20 started taking some steps back from their previous OpenSource
21 commitment and eventually got rid of the OpenDarwin developers.
23 * **AmigaOs** -- I've been programming a lot on the Amiga in early
24 '90s, mostly as a freelance developer. I expecially praised its
25 unique system and OS architecture, therefore I reused many of its
26 best ideas in my EmbeddedDeveloperRole projects.
28 * **MicrosoftWindows** -- I've been developing for Windows with
29 scarce enthusiasm since Windows 3.1 upto Windows 2000. I'm familiar
30 with most of the Win32 APIs and concepts, including GUI design
31 with common controls and MFC, threading, overlapped I/O, events, COM,
32 ODBC, DAO, VisualBasic, VBA, DirectMedia and DirectDraw.
33 For new Windows development, today I recommend using portability
34 layers and framwworks such as Qt, Cygwin, MingW.