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[[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]]
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## Who am I?
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As you can guess, my name is Nico [[Schottelius|schottelius]].
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I'm living in Switzerland and work for the
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[ETH Zurich](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/people/nicosc).
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I am a [[FOSS developer|foss]], with [[several interests|interests]].
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I personally do not think it's wise to publish detailled personal
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information in the internet, because they are personal (versus public).
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To get an impression of what I do and who I am,
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you can have a look at [[some press articles|press]]
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or some of my [[websites|websites]].
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If you want to know more about me, there are
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[many](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22)
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[public](http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22)
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[information](http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22nico+schottelius%22)
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available about me.
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## Contact
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You can contact me via E-Mail at
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***nico-webcontact*** (at the following domain) ***schottelius.org***.
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I recommened using PGP to encrypt any mail.
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The fingerprint of my [[pgp-key|pgp-key-9217A3DF.txt]] is
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nico-webcontact (at the following domain) schottelius.org
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I recommened using PGP to encrypt any mail. The fingerprint of my
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[[pgp-key|pgp-key-9217A3DF.txt]] is
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BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42 F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C
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## Personal information
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I personally do not think it's wise to publish detailled persoal information
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to the internet, because the internet never forgets, as
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seen on [google](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22),
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[alltheweb](http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22),
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[yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22nico+schottelius%22), ...
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But already from the above search results you may find out that ...
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* I work for the [ETH Zurich](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/people/nicosc)
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* ...
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## More information
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About my ...
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* [[Websites|websites]]
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* [[Aims|aims]]
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* [[Relation to FOSS|foss]]
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[[!tag schottelius]]
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[[!meta title="Nicos aims and plans"]]
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* Create a clean (secure, fast, and comfortable) Linux distribution
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* To stimulate the FOSS development, to boost the acceptance of FOSS.
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* Create tools that are needed for himself and to make them available for use in other Unices as well (like cinit, ccollect are available already)
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* Group together some people, interested in aiding the success of FOSS
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* Paid people
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* "Normal people" (those, that are just using the computer, not using to hack with it)
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* Try to get different groups to work closer (like *BSD with the Linux community)
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* I want to study computer science again
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* Learn more, to create better software
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* this time without the focus on economy
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[[!tag schottelius]]
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[[!meta title="Nico Schottelius and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]]
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[[Nico Schottelius|about]], the author of this website, is a FOSS developer.</p>
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### How did he become a FOSS developer?
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### Why did I become a FOSS developer?
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In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium
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1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So he
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asked his father, whether there is something else. And his father gave
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him a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a packet labeled "Suse
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Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white cd box and looked nicer,
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so he began to try to install it to his computer. But it did not work,
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because SCO did not support IDE disks and the computer had an IDE disk
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builtin.
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In 1998 I was running Windows 95 on my brand new computer (Pentium
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1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So I
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asked my father, whether there is something else available.
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And his father gave me a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a
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packet labeled "Suse Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white
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cd box and looked nicer, so I began to install Unixware my computer.
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But it did not work, because SCO did not support IDE disks and the
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computer had only an IDE disk builtin.
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After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up.
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Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system.
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After about two weeks trying around with SCO, I gave up.
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Frustrated I continued to use the old operating system.
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About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this
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operating system was crashing so often and he remembered, that there
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was another cd set (one source code, one install cd) to try out. After
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about 4 hours he had Linux running. That was really really easy
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about 4 hours I had Linux running. That was really really easy
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compared to SCO. It felt strange, so new, so fast. And it contains only
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text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought.
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text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, I thought.
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On the next day he read in the book that there is something called
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On the next day I read in the book that there is something called
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"X11" available, which can destroy the display, when wrongly
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configured. He was shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. He
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configured. I were shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. I
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searched for vertical and horizontal refresh rates and found them after
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some hours searching in the handbook (they were labeled differently
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compared to the SuSE Linux handbook). Created the configuration and
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typed in "X<enter>". Wow, it works. But why is it grey and black?
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Really gross. But after typing 'startx' it looked much better.</p>
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<p>The next confusing thing was that there were no drivers for the
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cdrom. Nothing to load. After about two weeks he found out that they
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cdrom. Nothing to load. After about two weeks I found out that they
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are already integrated into the kernel and that one simply needs to
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"mount" them. And after that experience, he was totally convinced by
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"mount" them. And after that experience, I was totally convinced by
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FOSS, because the FOSS people solved the driver issue much cleaner than
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the cdrom vendor or Windos itself. The whole system has been running
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very stable and it has been really easy to change things (like
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