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Hello, |
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I'm new around here and I put my nose in a couple (hum, maybe more) |
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threads, so I think I have to introduce myself to the list. |
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My name is Philippe Coulonges. I'm 42 (you said 42 ?), I'm french from |
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Toulouse. |
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In Toulouse, we do Airbus planes. So did I. I spent some years on |
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embedded calculators for these planes. I worked on the Flight Warning |
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Computer on the A320, on the Brake and Steering Computer Unit for that |
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same plane, on Maintenance Computer for the A430, etc... |
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I also worked for embedded computers on almost every transportation |
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system you can think about. I conceived a navigation system that allowed |
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Citroen Sport to be twice world champion of Rally-Raid (maybe the pilot |
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did help, too), I worked on embedded devices for taxis, buses, trains, |
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motor-less planes, cars, trucks, paratroopers, missiles (including |
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nuclear ones). |
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I also spent too much time in the last 20+ years learning odd languages, |
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methods, software engineering tools depending on lubies from quality |
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engineers or pointed-haired managers. |
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I stopped. |
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As I never heard of a mason you would ask to get the job done in X days |
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AND to which you should impose a feather as only tool, I decided I |
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should master the tools of my trade and work only with relevant ones. |
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After some consideration, I saw free software as the only solution, both |
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practically and philosophically. |
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Practically for I would not trust a compiler other than GCC to be here |
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in 40 years as some long term maintenance contract impose. |
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Philosophically, well, you know why, source code is free speech and the |
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like. |
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I spend some time (years in fact), testing Mandrake, Debian, SuSe, |
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RedHat, Slackware,YellowDog, WhiteDwarf, Elinus, |
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PleaseCouldTheLastOneShutTheDoor distributions, and then made my last |
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choice for Gentoo. |
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Now I'm here to stay. |
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And what I read about gentoo embedded will certainly add to that will. |
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I have experience, ranging from my first Oric to the MacOs where I |
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learned events while other discovered DOS, from VAX VMS to bloody MFC, |
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from 6802 asm to PPC G4, including nearly every µcontrollers you can |
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dream of. I play with software and hardware. |
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BUT, I haven't much time. |
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I'm divorcing from a near crazy woman and I must take care of my two |
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child. I lost my father this summer and I must take care of my mum. |
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So I will not take responsibilities now. |
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I hope my life will take a more gentle turn and then, I will help in a |
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more direct way. Meanwhile, I'm just lurking if you don't care, I'll |
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certainly fill some bugs (I already did), suggest and troll. |
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Oh, did I said troll ? Not really, please reread my posts, I troll on |
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purpose. |
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CU |
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CPHIL |
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