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| − | open source and I go quite a way back. All the way to 1995 when I uploaded "WFDOS" to a [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuserve Compuserve] area or forum or whatever they were called. WFDOS is a utility for integrating DOS-tools for use within IBMs Workframe/2, part of the VisualAge C++ suite of tools. If you google it, | + | open source and I go quite a way back. All the way back to 1995 when I uploaded "WFDOS" to a [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuserve Compuserve] area or forum or whatever they were called. WFDOS is a utility for integrating DOS-tools for use within IBMs Workframe/2, part of the VisualAge C++ suite of tools. If you google it, |
you'll quite likely come across references or maybe even a download. I know I have seen it listed on sites that collect OS/2 tools and utilities. | you'll quite likely come across references or maybe even a download. I know I have seen it listed on sites that collect OS/2 tools and utilities. | ||
| − | Going even further back to the 80s, I suspect my first encounter with "open" source was MVS 3.8 on microfiche or tape and later on JES/328X, an RJE spooler for MVS, on paper. I think I might even still have the JES328X source code somewhere up | + | Going even further back to the 80s, I suspect my first encounter with "open" source was MVS 3.8 on microfiche or tape and later on JES/328X, an RJE spooler for MVS, on paper. I think I might even still have the JES328X source code somewhere up in the attic. |
I was probably a little late getting on the Linux bandwagon, perhaps because I was a keen OS/2 developer at home, and writing IBM mainframe | I was probably a little late getting on the Linux bandwagon, perhaps because I was a keen OS/2 developer at home, and writing IBM mainframe | ||
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* dosemu | * dosemu | ||
| − | to | + | This goes back to 2001/2002 or thereabouts - I honestly cannot remember what I wrote for dosemu, but I suspect you'll |
| + | find my name in the code somewhere. | ||
| − | * clamav | + | * [http://www.clamav.net clamav] |
| − | + | In 2005, I wrote a patch to make the freshclam daemon more resilient with respect to poorly written OnError and OnUpdate scripts. Later, I wrote a 2nd patch to introduce | |
| + | the OnOutdatedExecute option. | ||
| − | bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. | + | * bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. Locally in production, but not yet published. |
| − | * etherboot | + | * [http://etherboot.org/ etherboot] |
| − | To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, | + | To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, certainly nothing major. Something about the driver(s) for 3c509 or 3c515 comes to mind, but it's |
| + | really not very significant. | ||
* hercules-390 | * hercules-390 | ||
| − | I contributed support for | + | I contributed support for several IEEE-754 floating point instructions, primarily to enable running a Java virtual machine on Linux-390. I was working for BEA systems at the time, |
and running/demoing BEA Weblogic (and associated products) on Linux-390 was one of my key responsibilities. | and running/demoing BEA Weblogic (and associated products) on Linux-390 was one of my key responsibilities. | ||
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I honestly cannot remember how I got involved in this, but SAPDB was released as open source by SAP AG in 2000 or thereabouts. I can't remember why, but I knew that SAPDB used to be called Adabas, | I honestly cannot remember how I got involved in this, but SAPDB was released as open source by SAP AG in 2000 or thereabouts. I can't remember why, but I knew that SAPDB used to be called Adabas, | ||
| − | and used to run on MVS | + | and used to run on MVS. The challenge of getting it build and run on Linux-390 (using Hercules-390) was just too much of a temptation. |
* linux kernel | * linux kernel | ||
| − | A two line change to provide AHCI support for 88se9125. | + | A two line change to provide AHCI support for 88se9125. Back in 2002 or 2003, I also wrote a driver for flashing some AMD serial EEPROM, but I never published it. |
* nasm | * nasm | ||
| − | Whilst writing some assembler code for | + | Whilst writing some assembler code for Linux, I spotted a bug in the 64-bit stack generation code, and wrote a patch. |
Later on I upgraded the openSUSE nasm package. | Later on I upgraded the openSUSE nasm package. | ||
| − | * analog (weblog analyzer). | + | * [http://analog.cx/ analog] (weblog analyzer). |
| − | I added support for | + | I added support for XML output. |
* PMMail | * PMMail | ||
PMMail used to be my email client on OS/2, and wrote a couple of scripts for miscellaneous PMMail maintenance. | PMMail used to be my email client on OS/2, and wrote a couple of scripts for miscellaneous PMMail maintenance. | ||
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| + | * openSUSE stuff | ||
| + | Apart from bug reports and mailing lists, I don't actually contribute a lot to openSUSE, but since mid-2011, I have started | ||
| + | fixing or upgrading the odd package: | ||
| + | **nasm - upgrade to latest version. | ||
| + | **jfsutils - upgrade to latest version. | ||
| + | **lilo - upgrade to latest version. | ||
| + | **Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:49, 4 January 2020
open source and I go quite a way back. All the way back to 1995 when I uploaded "WFDOS" to a Compuserve area or forum or whatever they were called. WFDOS is a utility for integrating DOS-tools for use within IBMs Workframe/2, part of the VisualAge C++ suite of tools. If you google it, you'll quite likely come across references or maybe even a download. I know I have seen it listed on sites that collect OS/2 tools and utilities.
Going even further back to the 80s, I suspect my first encounter with "open" source was MVS 3.8 on microfiche or tape and later on JES/328X, an RJE spooler for MVS, on paper. I think I might even still have the JES328X source code somewhere up in the attic.
I was probably a little late getting on the Linux bandwagon, perhaps because I was a keen OS/2 developer at home, and writing IBM mainframe system software in the office. My focus was first turned towards Unix (HP-UX, AIX) in the mid-90s. I purchased my first copy of SuSE Linux, version 4.4.1, around 1996 I think. I remember Linux kernel 1.3 and that 2.0 was a big step forward. One of my significant achievements around 1998/1999 was getting an ancient 486DX2 office desktop set up in cupboard, running our home internet gateway/firewall, kernel 2.0.36.
The following is a list of my open source contributions, in no particular order:
- dosemu
This goes back to 2001/2002 or thereabouts - I honestly cannot remember what I wrote for dosemu, but I suspect you'll find my name in the code somewhere.
In 2005, I wrote a patch to make the freshclam daemon more resilient with respect to poorly written OnError and OnUpdate scripts. Later, I wrote a 2nd patch to introduce the OnOutdatedExecute option.
- bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. Locally in production, but not yet published.
To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, certainly nothing major. Something about the driver(s) for 3c509 or 3c515 comes to mind, but it's really not very significant.
- hercules-390
I contributed support for several IEEE-754 floating point instructions, primarily to enable running a Java virtual machine on Linux-390. I was working for BEA systems at the time, and running/demoing BEA Weblogic (and associated products) on Linux-390 was one of my key responsibilities.
- SAPDB
I honestly cannot remember how I got involved in this, but SAPDB was released as open source by SAP AG in 2000 or thereabouts. I can't remember why, but I knew that SAPDB used to be called Adabas, and used to run on MVS. The challenge of getting it build and run on Linux-390 (using Hercules-390) was just too much of a temptation.
- linux kernel
A two line change to provide AHCI support for 88se9125. Back in 2002 or 2003, I also wrote a driver for flashing some AMD serial EEPROM, but I never published it.
- nasm
Whilst writing some assembler code for Linux, I spotted a bug in the 64-bit stack generation code, and wrote a patch. Later on I upgraded the openSUSE nasm package.
- analog (weblog analyzer).
I added support for XML output.
- PMMail
PMMail used to be my email client on OS/2, and wrote a couple of scripts for miscellaneous PMMail maintenance.
- openSUSE stuff
Apart from bug reports and mailing lists, I don't actually contribute a lot to openSUSE, but since mid-2011, I have started fixing or upgrading the odd package:
- nasm - upgrade to latest version.
- jfsutils - upgrade to latest version.
- lilo - upgrade to latest version.
- Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.
