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Anthony G. Basile: |
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> On 07/30/14 16:01, justin wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone, |
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>> Xavier Miller (XavierMiller) joined our team to help managing the forums. |
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>> He started to use Gentoo back in the glory days in 2004 and started his |
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>> moderator careers 2-3 years ago. Now he took the last step to become a |
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>> full global moderator. |
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>> Here are some lines about himself: |
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>> I am 40 years old, Belgian, married, with one boy (4 years). I work as |
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>> Software Developer/Architect or Business Intelligence Consultant for |
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>> 18 years. |
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>> I use computers since I am 9, starting with the family's C64, then a |
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>> 286. I discovered UNIX and Linux at University (1992-1996) and I was |
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>> quite frustrated with that 286 that could not run Linux... I had to |
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>> wait until 1996 and my first owned computer (a K6 II). I started with |
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>> SuSE Linux and Red Hat, and needed to compile the kernel in order to |
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>> have drivers for the sound card and ADSL modem. Then I've built two |
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>> LFS systems, the first with FVWM95 and the second with GNOME (1 or 2, |
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>> I don't remember). When I would update them, I was searching for an |
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>> automatic version of LFS. And I found Gentoo! It was in 2004, as said |
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>> my forum profile. I did know the first moments of ~AMD64 and the |
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>> "unstable" meaning of "unstable". Today, ~arch is really stable, thank |
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>> to you Gentoo Developers! |
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>> I am moderator in the French forum since July 2011, and active as SPAM |
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>> hunter. Desultory and the forum administrators asked me to join them, |
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>> and I accepted the challenge! |
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>> I am also musician, my instruments are keyboards: piano, organ (pipe |
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>> and tonewheels), synthesizers. My favorite styles are: Classical, |
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>> Jazz, Pop-Rock. |
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>> I am not a great fan of software in that domain, I prefer "hardware", |
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>> or at least embedded systems with knobs and tangible interfaces that |
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>> don't sound as "computer". |
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>> I am tinkering now on a MIDIbox SID system (C64 nostalgy). |
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>> Please everyone join my in giving him a warm welcome. |
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>> Justin |
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> Welcome on board Xavier! |
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Oh. Yeah. Bro. |