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Hello, everyone:
I just subscribed to the list today, and I hope
it's OK to take a moment to introduce myself to you, because I want very much to
get more involved with the Gnopernicus project. My name is Pete De
Vasto. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. I
learned about this list from Peter Korn, who I had met a couple of years ago at
a conference held in March, 2001, where this project was "kicked off". I
then met him again during the first round of usability sessions that were held
at Sun late last month.
I have been in Data Processing for just about
thirty years, the last six involved with UNIX System Administration. My
last position was at a bay area biotech firm, and it was one of over 400 that
were eliminated at the end of 2001 when the company reduced its work force and
closed down some of its operations. I have experience with RedHat Linux,
as well as Solaris and several other platforms that may not be involved with
Gnopernicus at this time. In addition to taking my two Braille displays
and two external speech synthesizers home with me, the company let me take my
Compaq PC as well, but I've been having many software issues with the Windows
'98 system that's currently running on it. I have another windows-based PC
now, so I am at a point where I'd simply like to completely wipe the hard
drive on the Compaq and install a Linux system on it. I'm in a
position where I may be in line to get financial assistance to obtain Linux
certification in hopes I can find a job, so a machine with Linux running on it
makes quite a bit of sense. I'm also thinking that perhaps I can try
installing Gnopernicus on the new system to see if I can help you out
testing it.
What I am about to ask is very basic at this point,
so if answering these questions might clutter up the list too much, please
e-mail me privately. The first thing I would want to know is which flavor
of Linux would be best for me to obtain. I've seen others talking about
running with RedHat 8.0, which suits me just fine because I'm already familiar
with RedHat, even to the point where I had speakup and Brltty running on the
system I had when I was working. If anybody thinks there's a better Linux
flavor for me to get, I'd rather know now before I have to repeat
steps.
Thank you very much for listening, and I look
forward to working and talking with all of you as time goes on.
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