[gentoo-dev] Introduction

[gentoo-dev] Introduction

[Robert Clark]

Hey,

Thanks to phreak`` for that great introduction and all his help over the
last month or so, much appreciated, if you (or any gentoo dev) find
yourself in switzerland, I'll gladly buy you a drink.

As phreak`` mentioned I have a strong security interest and I will
thusly be harassing Taviso for a long time to come!

I'm looking forward to being a useful member of the community, hopefully
I will see a lot of you at FOSDEM.

Cheers
-Rob

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[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-www/bk_edit

[Christian Marie]

net-www/bk_edit has been dead upstream since the end of 2003 and does
not build with GCC 4.x. We've only had one report of it failing to
build, thus I am led to believe it will not be profoundly missed.
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[gentoo-dev] Introduction

[Philippe Coulonges]

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 µcontrollers 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

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