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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -0700
From:      "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        James <oscartheduck@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: introduction
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0804222241q4cf9b0d7t5e673023fc7fe1ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d59e90ab0804221855q78d72073k73c3190b250b5c0d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d59e90ab0804221855q78d72073k73c3190b250b5c0d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM, James <oscartheduck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> my name is James Harrison; I'm a computer science student at the
> University
> of New Mexico, studying mostly at the Los Alamos branch. I'm also a Unix
> systems administrator/developer at Los Alamos National Lab, where I've
> been
> working with embedded linux for a while.
>
> I've been working with FreeBSD for a few years now; a friend introduced me
> to it as a way to get a wireless card working that was stubbornly refusing
> to cooperate with any other operating system. After spending six months
> repeatedly breaking and ignoring the system by mixing packages and ports,
> I
> finally knuckled down and started learning how the system works.
>
> I'm working on the embedded FreeBSD project; I find embedded development
> to
> be difficult and extremely enjoyable. It covers a lot of bases, while also
> hearkening back to days when there were fewer resources available on any
> system, so that I feel like I'm working in an environment from the late
> seventies or early eighties. Which means I feel retro cool without
> actually
> being limited in resources in the real world.
>
> Best
> James


Congratulations James and welcome onboard :).
-Garrett



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