Like everyone else, I’ll start this blog with “this is my first blog ever!”
Now, I’m not a complete stranger to Linux, but I’m certainly not a guru. I got my first impression of Linux from my older brother who was using it once, now he’s back to Windows. I had seen Linux couple of times, and I was seeing news and so many good things about it and I wanted to try. I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 and it was good.
It was so easy to install compared to Windows XP that I was amazed. It was so easy to install software, it knew everything about all my hardware! I din’t have to use anything like those cd:s full of drivers I had stored for a reinstall. It was a dream come true, but I’m not going to admit that I was, or that I’m now such a geek that would dream about some operating system.
I have tried a lot of distributions. I’ve tried LFS, INX, DSL, *buntu, Elive, OpenGEU, Sidux, Gentoo, SourceMage, Crunchbang, Fedora, Mandriva, Linux Mint and more. I haven’t really used those .rpm using distributions too much, with no good excuse.
I haven’t been a part of any meaningful development, but I will be developing something someday. I’m studying programming, so it would be a waste if I’d not help everybody after I’ll get some actual skills. I think that I want to learn C/C++ and python for starters.
I’m a huge fan of wearable computing. I’ve been reading a lot about it and I will soon start building one of my own after I have finished the part where I should plan everything. I have also decided to build a distribution for it, using INX-like menu based interface without normal graphical interface. I’m amazed how I can see wearable computing almost dying, when it should be flourishing because everything is so small and powerful today. I can’t believe the only mentions about wearables here are from old Linux documentation.
This page seems to be lots of fun.
