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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