1 Operating systems always have been my favourite computer
2 related topic, so I know and use many:
4 * **Linux** -- I've been using several LinuxDistros extensively and
5 I occasionally do minor packaging work for Fedora and Ubuntu. I've also
6 put together and distributed a custom Linux distribution targeted
7 at the AmigaComputer as part of the AmigaUnixCompendium project.
9 * **NetBsd** -- I've been a NetBSD user since 0.9 and bacame an official
10 developer with CVS commit access a little later. I made a custom NetBSD
11 distribution on CD for the AmigaComputer called the AmigaUnixCompendium.
12 See also OpenSourceDeveloperRole for some contributions I made.
14 * **Sun Solaris** -- I've been using it since Solaris 7, but a
15 few years ago I've lost interest in it because of lack of
16 development. Besides building hundreds of GNU and other
17 packages to replace almost all of Sun's userland, I successfully
18 ported the early versions of KDE 1.x and 2.x to Solaris.
20 * **MacOsX** -- I know this system quite well and have been
21 using as a user and developer until mid-2006, when Apple
22 started taking some steps back from their previous OpenSource
23 commitment, showing lack of cooperation and disrespect for the
24 OpenDarwin developers.
26 * **AmigaOs** -- I've been programming a lot on the Amiga in early
27 '90s, mostly as a freelance developer. I expecially prised its
28 unique system and OS architecture, therefore I reused many of its
29 best ideas in my EmbeddedDeveloperRole projects.
31 * **MicrosoftWindows** -- I've been developing for Windows with
32 little enthusiasm since Windows 3.1 upto Windows 2000. I'm familiar
33 with most of the Win32 APIs and concepts, including GUI design
34 with common controls and MFC, threading, overlapped I/O, events, COM,
35 ODBC, DAO, VisualBasic, VBA, DirectMedia and DirectDraw.
36 For new Windows development, today I recommend using portability
37 layers and framwworks such as Cygwin, MingW and Qt.