Post by ylee on Jul 5, 2020 15:53:38 GMT
Hello World !!
Long time Bodhi users will know who I am. I have used Bodhi since the early days of Bodhi 1.x and been very active in the community ever since. These days I am considered the Lead Dev. Bodhi Linux 5.1 was the first actual ISO I created.
Things to know about me:
I have programmed for a long time since 1979 actually. My favorite language currently is python. Unfortunately, most of the code I write these days is in C. Moksha itself is, of course, written in C. While I love programming and do quite a bit of it, I am not a 'professional' programmer unless you count my work with Moksha and other open-source projects. I have two degrees one in mathematics and one in computer science. For what that matters.
I package most of the stuff in Bodhi's repos these day. So if you want something added I am the person to ask.
I answer forum posts sometimes but not as much in the past. I usually leave easy stuff to someone else. Easy meaning easy to me, perhaps not you or the mythological average user. I do not know everything about Linux or anything else. Contrary to some rumors floating around, lol. I have little patience for stupidity or internet trolls.
I actually have little free time so I address or fix Bodhi/Moksha issues as time permits and according to a priority Štefan, Jeff or I assign to it and according to the difficulty of the problem. If it is taking too long trying to understand or fix the issue I will go on the next issue I wish to address. All known issues, feature requests, and the like are documented and will in theory be eventually addressed.
If I am online I am always on Discord whether I show up there or not. I find it best to hide my active status esp while programming.
Cultural Literacy is very important to me as is keeping informed about too many things. I am a speed reader with a high comprehension and read daily about 1200 pages worth of blogs/articles et al online. Not counting what I read googling programming or computer problems. I have alot of interests not just computer/math/geek stuff. Not gonna list them here as it is unrelated.
My actual RL job is as a brick mason and that makes me sorta an oddity in the FOSS world. Not many open-source programmers have any experience with construction workers or that culture/class. They often have alot of false assumptions about us. And of course, some assumptions that are more or less right. I am not going to go into all that as it is unrelated to Bodhi or Linux. In the past, I have also worked as a statistician, a college professor (Programming), and a vegan chef.
I live in the United States and grew up in West Virginia. This sorta makes me a hillbilly. Perhaps an odd one as I am also vegetarian. American or not I don't really consider myself American. We live in a global world and I don't always maybe even seldom approve of the government here.
When it comes to FOSS, I lean towards the views of Richard Stallman strongly. I am not a purist tho, at least not as pure as Stallman. I don't like proprietary software, binary blobs, and closed source drivers. But I may use them if it is necessary. Necessary as the hardware I am using has to have a closed source driver to function and I lack the time, information needed, knowledge or ability to write one myself.
Politically, I am fairly radical. But a Linux forum is hardly the place to discuss politics unless of course, it relates to FOSS or Linux in some way.
Anything else you will have to ask.
Long time Bodhi users will know who I am. I have used Bodhi since the early days of Bodhi 1.x and been very active in the community ever since. These days I am considered the Lead Dev. Bodhi Linux 5.1 was the first actual ISO I created.
Things to know about me:
I have programmed for a long time since 1979 actually. My favorite language currently is python. Unfortunately, most of the code I write these days is in C. Moksha itself is, of course, written in C. While I love programming and do quite a bit of it, I am not a 'professional' programmer unless you count my work with Moksha and other open-source projects. I have two degrees one in mathematics and one in computer science. For what that matters.
I package most of the stuff in Bodhi's repos these day. So if you want something added I am the person to ask.
I answer forum posts sometimes but not as much in the past. I usually leave easy stuff to someone else. Easy meaning easy to me, perhaps not you or the mythological average user. I do not know everything about Linux or anything else. Contrary to some rumors floating around, lol. I have little patience for stupidity or internet trolls.
I actually have little free time so I address or fix Bodhi/Moksha issues as time permits and according to a priority Štefan, Jeff or I assign to it and according to the difficulty of the problem. If it is taking too long trying to understand or fix the issue I will go on the next issue I wish to address. All known issues, feature requests, and the like are documented and will in theory be eventually addressed.
If I am online I am always on Discord whether I show up there or not. I find it best to hide my active status esp while programming.
Cultural Literacy is very important to me as is keeping informed about too many things. I am a speed reader with a high comprehension and read daily about 1200 pages worth of blogs/articles et al online. Not counting what I read googling programming or computer problems. I have alot of interests not just computer/math/geek stuff. Not gonna list them here as it is unrelated.
My actual RL job is as a brick mason and that makes me sorta an oddity in the FOSS world. Not many open-source programmers have any experience with construction workers or that culture/class. They often have alot of false assumptions about us. And of course, some assumptions that are more or less right. I am not going to go into all that as it is unrelated to Bodhi or Linux. In the past, I have also worked as a statistician, a college professor (Programming), and a vegan chef.
I live in the United States and grew up in West Virginia. This sorta makes me a hillbilly. Perhaps an odd one as I am also vegetarian. American or not I don't really consider myself American. We live in a global world and I don't always maybe even seldom approve of the government here.
When it comes to FOSS, I lean towards the views of Richard Stallman strongly. I am not a purist tho, at least not as pure as Stallman. I don't like proprietary software, binary blobs, and closed source drivers. But I may use them if it is necessary. Necessary as the hardware I am using has to have a closed source driver to function and I lack the time, information needed, knowledge or ability to write one myself.
Politically, I am fairly radical. But a Linux forum is hardly the place to discuss politics unless of course, it relates to FOSS or Linux in some way.
Anything else you will have to ask.
