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Hi all, |
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A new developer is joining the MIPS port, to help with the Cobalt effort |
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and also to maintain the documentation. His name is Stuart Longland and |
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he lives in Brisbane, Australia where he is two years into his Bachelor |
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of IT (Software Engineering) and Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) |
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combined degree and the Queensland University of Technology. |
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His interests are largely include electronics, programming, RISC |
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computing, networking, web design, his music collection (rock from |
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between the 60s and the 90s, mainly) and bushwalking. |
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Stuart's beginnings with Linux come from his experiences with FreeBSD. |
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He was impressed by the Ports system, and decided to create his own |
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distribution, called Atomic Linux, with a focus on ease of use, |
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source-based package management and a reasonable amount of tweaking. He |
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also aimed to support binary packages like RPMs. He |
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Then two years ago he discovered Gentoo, and he's been picking up ideas |
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for use in his own distribution, and he says that a lot of his |
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developments will come back as patches in our Bugzilla :) |
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Outside of University and computing, Stuart is active within a computer |
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club for autistic adults, run by the Asperger's Syndrome Support |
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Network (http://www.asperger.asn.au/). He maintains the network, and |
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also helps to run the club, which aims to help teach social skills |
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through the use of computers. Shame some people on IRC can't learn |
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social skills through the use of computers ;) |
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Stuart has Asperger's Syndrome hisself, although he writes that he's |
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"learned how to interact with people, however, so these days it's hard |
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for most people to spot." |
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Stuart's enjoying tinkering in the fields of embedded and RISC |
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computing. He has four MIPS machines (Tektronix TekXPress XP338, SGI |
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Indy, SGI Indigo2 Impact and Cobalt Qube2). He hasn't tried Sparc, |
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PA-RISC or ARM, but he is certainly interested. |
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So, with that, please say hi to Stuart if you see him on IRC, and |
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welcome him to the team. |
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Yours incoherently, |
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Tom |
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Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti |
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AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters |
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Gentoo Linux |