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Welcome to my wiki. Be advised that this page is still very much a work in progress. Feel free to send me any questions, comments, or advice at the address below. Email: MailTo(gdefayette@gmail.com)

Me

Hello, I am a pretty new in the Ubuntu developer community but I have been using GNU/Linux for several years. I live in New York state, USA and work at a toy factory. Its very non-technical and I am working on changing that, but for now its just a job. My technical knowledge is mostly self taught, but I always try to learn from others. I began using GNU/Linux in 1999 With Red Hat and never looked back, even though it needed a great deal of work at the time. At age 8 I learned to program in BASIC on an Apple IIC but never learned C/C++ until I was in high school. Still, I don't know why I haven't gotten involved in the community before now. I hope to improve my skills and contribute to the improvement of FOSS available to the world.

What am I doing?

I am testing the water, so to speak, by working on a few Desktop bugs. They are not much but I have very limited computer resources ( I am running on a PII 350Mhz w/224MB ram) so just doing what I am doing right now is quite a stretch. Now my old ceder mill celeron system doesn't seem so slow. No worries, I will be getting a new Core 2 laptop in a month or two. After the upgrade I hope to get more heavily and efficiently involved in the development process. On the good side I am finding that all my tinkering and recreational coding paid off as my current skill set seems to be adequate for solving the bugs that I am working on. I think that if my system weren't so slow ( I can't compile things quickly or load some required tools ) there would be fixes for one or two of them (there are only three right now anyway).

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Right now.

Right now is a bit unproductive for me. I will try to help with the final release somehow, but I have almost givin up on trying to do any serious work on this machine. I wish my other computer was still alive. Right now I am just saving the cash for a new high end laptop for mobile development. Upgrading to Feisty as I type this. I hope there are some bugs in something my machine can run (I don't really hope for bugs, but it would be nice if they weren't all either above my technical level or in software that takes me 6 hours to compile and forces me to use the swap like ram.

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Edit conflict - your version:

Right now.

Right now is a bit unproductive for me. I will try to help with the final release somehow, but I have almost given up on trying to do any serious work on this machine. I wish my other computer was still alive. Right now I am just saving the cash for a new high end laptop for mobile development. Upgrading to Feisty as I type this. I hope there are some bugs in something my machine can run (I don't really hope for bugs, but it would be nice if they weren't all either above my technical level or in software that takes me 6 hours to compile and forces me to use the swap like ram.

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This is all for now, but there will be more at a later date.

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