Operating systems always have been my favourite computer
related topic, so I know and use many:
- * **Linux** -- I've been using several LinuxDistros extensively and
- I occasionally do minor packaging work for Fedora and Ubuntu. I've also
- put together and distributed a custom Linux distribution targeted
- at the AmigaComputer as part of the AmigaUnixCompendium project.
+ * **Linux** -- I've been packaging software in several LinuxDistros, including
+ Fedora and Ubuntu. I've also put together and distributed custom Linux distributions
+ for embedded projects, for the OLPC and for the AmigaComputer.
- * **NetBsd** -- I've been a NetBSD user since 0.9 and bacame an official
- developer with CVS commit access a little later. I made a custom NetBSD
- distribution on CD for the AmigaComputer called the AmigaUnixCompendium.
- See also OpenSourceDeveloperRole for some contributions I made.
+ * **NetBsd** -- I've become an official developer with commit access around the time
+ NetBSD 1.0 came out. I created a custom NetBSD distribution on CD called the
+ AmigaUnixCompendium. See also OpenSourceDeveloperRole for some of my contributions.
* **Sun Solaris** -- I've been using it since Solaris 7, but a
few years ago I've lost interest in it because of lack of
ported the early versions of KDE 1.x and 2.x to Solaris.
* **MacOsX** -- I know this system quite well and have been
- using as a user and developer until mid-2006, when Apple
+ using it as a user and developer until mid-2006, when Apple
started taking some steps back from their previous OpenSource
- commitment, showing lack of cooperation and disrespect for the
- OpenDarwin developers.
+ commitment and eventually got rid of the OpenDarwin developers.
* **AmigaOs** -- I've been programming a lot on the Amiga in early
- '90s, mostly as a freelance developer. I expecially prised its
+ '90s, mostly as a freelance developer. I expecially praised its
unique system and OS architecture, therefore I reused many of its
best ideas in my EmbeddedDeveloperRole projects.
* **MicrosoftWindows** -- I've been developing for Windows with
- little enthusiasm since Windows 3.1 upto Windows 2000. I'm familiar
+ scarce enthusiasm since Windows 3.1 upto Windows 2000. I'm familiar
with most of the Win32 APIs and concepts, including GUI design
with common controls and MFC, threading, overlapped I/O, events, COM,
ODBC, DAO, VisualBasic, VBA, DirectMedia and DirectDraw.
For new Windows development, today I recommend using portability
- layers and framwworks such as Cygwin, MingW and Qt.
+ layers and framwworks such as Qt, Cygwin, MingW.
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