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Hi all, |
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this is my first message here and I want to introduce myself on the |
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list. Please excuse my english, I am trying to improve it so any |
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corrections are welcome. |
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My full name is Victor Roman Archidona, currently have 25 years and |
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born/living in Spain, in Ciudad Real exactly but travel every week day |
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to work in Madrid and study for my own on the UNED University. |
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I have strong C, DIV and PHP knowledge, advanced skills on |
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HTML/XHTML/XML languages, medium knowledge of x86 assembly and some |
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traces of Python which I want to improve it a lot. That's my |
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"developer profile". |
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On the other side I work as freelance consultant, being Sun |
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certifications (SCSAS/SCSA/SCNA/SCSECAM/CLUSTER) one of my principal |
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job, training youngs from 16 years old to seniors of about 50 years. I |
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also train people for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli |
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Netcool/Omnibus and IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact. As consultant I also |
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design system software, web applications and business deployment of |
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computer networks. Oh! I mention to forgot I host websites as a low |
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time consuming work from time to time, mostly for friends and SOHOs. |
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Other interests are computer networks (I really enjoy designing |
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scalable networks from cable topologies to final core networking) and |
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software security. |
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This will be my second time on GSoC, and the second one on Gentoo. I |
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previous did the project "Gentoo/FreeBSD for Amd64" with success, but |
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never got maintained due lack of time and no real interest from many |
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people. |
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This time I talked with Patrick Lauer to revive the OpenBSD port or do |
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a NetBSD one. He gently told me those projects were requested from |
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more users so I decided no to fight with them, and go the "hard" way: |
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Port Gentoo to Minix. |
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And, why that project? Well, for my is challenge port Gentoo no to a |
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very related platform like BSD is but to a completly new platform (no |
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ELF binaries, small shared libraries support, etc.). It is hard and I |
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like challeges. |
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There are more reasons: |
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- Minix has an extensive and well documentation: The book |
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"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" written by its author |
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
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- Is relatively simple and the code base is very small |
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- Has lots of common things with BSD and Linux |
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- It is a platform which can grow vastly when Portage owns its |
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world, not only using the current and not so great packman (no |
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dependency checking, etc.) |
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- More if asked :-) |
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Some work has been done and I don't need to start from scratch. Minix |
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has packman which may install many of GNU programs needed to start: |
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binutils, grep, gcc, python, sed, gawk, etc. They aren't the last |
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versions but ones to start with. |
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Also, I like sandboxing and Patrick told me the current is not |
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portable, so a sandbox written in Python may come if needed (and who |
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knows if it later grows to fits every Gentoo port needs!). |
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That all for now, I think I wrote enough to disturb you enough and |
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have stolen your precious time. If you really read until here, thanks, |
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very thanks for your attention. |
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Regards, |
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- -- |
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Víctor Román Archidona |
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http://blog.daijo.org |
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