diff --git a/about.mdwn b/about.mdwn index e84947be..23fa1c7e 100644 --- a/about.mdwn +++ b/about.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ [[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]] -Nico Schottelius is the orginator and author of this website. ## About me -You can read about me and my projects at several sites: +Nico Schottelius is the orginator and author of this website. +He's also a [[FOSS developer|about/foss]]. + +## About www.nico.schottelius.org + +There are plenty of websites currently up and running and this site +will sooner or later consolidate all of the following ones: * [very old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schotteli.us/) * [old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schottelius.org/) diff --git a/about/foss.mdwn b/about/foss.mdwn index 4950b64e..bbc4bce2 100644 --- a/about/foss.mdwn +++ b/about/foss.mdwn @@ -1,23 +1,28 @@ -[[!meta title="Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]] +[[!meta title="Nico Schottelius and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]] [[Nico Schottelius|about]], the author of this website, is a FOSS developer.
-In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium +### How did he become a FOSS developer? + +In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium 1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So he asked his father, whether there is something else. And his father gave him a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a packet labeled "Suse Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white cd box and looked nicer, so he began to try to install it to his computer. But it did not work, because SCO did not support IDE disks and the computer had an IDE disk -builtin.
-After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up. Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system.
About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this +builtin. + +After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up. +Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system. + +About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this operating system was crashing so often and he remembered, that there was another cd set (one source code, one install cd) to try out. After about 4 hours he had Linux running. That was really really easy compared to SCO. It felt strange, so new, so fast. And it contains only -text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought.
-On the next day he read in the book that there is something called
+text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought.
+
+On the next day he read in the book that there is something called
"X11" available, which can destroy the display, when wrongly
configured. He was shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. He
searched for vertical and horizontal refresh rates and found them after
@@ -32,4 +37,6 @@ are already integrated into the kernel and that one simply needs to
FOSS, because the FOSS people solved the driver issue much cleaner than
the cdrom vendor or Windos itself. The whole system has been running
very stable and it has been really easy to change things (like
-/etc/issues), it has been open.