From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4861 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 00:49:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26521 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 00:49:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 01:49:33 +0100 From: Philippe Coulonges To: Message-Id: <20031104014933.6fdc520d.cphil@cphil.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-no-archives: true Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [gentoo-dev] Introduction X-Archives-Salt: 13f78a55-d0e7-420f-9fda-941da0d6585f X-Archives-Hash: ce5afb388a773d84852549d4fa494c08 Hello, I'm new around here and I put my nose in a couple (hum, maybe more) threads, so I think I have to introduce myself to the list. My name is Philippe Coulonges. I'm 42 (you said 42 ?), I'm french from Toulouse. In Toulouse, we do Airbus planes. So did I. I spent some years on embedded calculators for these planes. I worked on the Flight Warning Computer on the A320, on the Brake and Steering Computer Unit for that same plane, on Maintenance Computer for the A430, etc... I also worked for embedded computers on almost every transportation system you can think about. I conceived a navigation system that allowed Citroen Sport to be twice world champion of Rally-Raid (maybe the pilot did help, too), I worked on embedded devices for taxis, buses, trains, motor-less planes, cars, trucks, paratroopers, missiles (including nuclear ones). I also spent too much time in the last 20+ years learning odd languages, methods, software engineering tools depending on lubies from quality engineers or pointed-haired managers. I stopped. As I never heard of a mason you would ask to get the job done in X days AND to which you should impose a feather as only tool, I decided I should master the tools of my trade and work only with relevant ones. After some consideration, I saw free software as the only solution, both practically and philosophically. Practically for I would not trust a compiler other than GCC to be here in 40 years as some long term maintenance contract impose. Philosophically, well, you know why, source code is free speech and the like. I spend some time (years in fact), testing Mandrake, Debian, SuSe, RedHat, Slackware,YellowDog, WhiteDwarf, Elinus, PleaseCouldTheLastOneShutTheDoor distributions, and then made my last choice for Gentoo. Now I'm here to stay. And what I read about gentoo embedded will certainly add to that will. I have experience, ranging from my first Oric to the MacOs where I learned events while other discovered DOS, from VAX VMS to bloody MFC, from 6802 asm to PPC G4, including nearly every =B5controllers you can dream of. I play with software and hardware. BUT, I haven't much time. I'm divorcing from a near crazy woman and I must take care of my two child. I lost my father this summer and I must take care of my mum. So I will not take responsibilities now. I hope my life will take a more gentle turn and then, I will help in a more direct way. Meanwhile, I'm just lurking if you don't care, I'll certainly fill some bugs (I already did), suggest and troll. Oh, did I said troll ? Not really, please reread my posts, I troll on purpose. CU CPHIL -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list