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(Created page with "open source development 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 t...")
 
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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.  
  
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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 on the attic.
  
was a member of the IBM OS/2 Developers Centermy email address was "per@ibm.net", courtesy of ]
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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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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.
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* dosemu
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* etherboot
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* hercules-390
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* sapdb
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* linux kernel
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* nasm
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* analog
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* PMMail
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== Packaging ==
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Starting sometime early-to-mid 2011, I started getting involved in packaging software for openSUSE.  My first "project" was upgrading nasm such that a patch I had submitted earlier would be automatically included.

Revision as of 19:36, 17 November 2011

open source development and I go quite a way back. All the way 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 with 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 on 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.

  • dosemu
  • etherboot
  • hercules-390
  • sapdb
  • linux kernel
  • nasm
  • analog
  • PMMail


Packaging

Starting sometime early-to-mid 2011, I started getting involved in packaging software for openSUSE. My first "project" was upgrading nasm such that a patch I had submitted earlier would be automatically included.