Difference between revisions of "Open source and I"

From Perswiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 1: Line 1:
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 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,  
+
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,  
 
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.  
  
Line 6: Line 6:
 
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  
 
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.  
 
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
 
* dosemu
 +
 +
* clamav
 +
 +
 +
 
* etherboot
 
* etherboot
 +
 +
To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, i.e. nothing major.
 +
 
* hercules-390
 
* hercules-390
 
* sapdb
 
* sapdb

Revision as of 21:28, 17 November 2011

open source 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 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 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.

The following is a list of my open source contributions, in no particular order:

  • dosemu
  • clamav


  • etherboot

To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, i.e. nothing major.

  • 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.