Greetings everyone!
My name is John and I'm a Junior working on my Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. I recently got involved with Linux a year and half ago. But I have and seen Linux used by one of my friends in High School. It wasn't until a little over a year ago when I wanted to learn and use Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 because I thought it was a interesting product for people with a small IT infrastructure to use for there small business. To my dismay I found out that good ole' MS had cut support 1-2 years ago and so it was irrelevant for me to learn it because it was unsupported like XP.
Long story short, I came to one of my professors wanting to do a research project on open source Linux / software adaptation for small business particularly targeting the server. Since then I have made a very capable distro from Ubuntu that would replace + give SB owners the resource to run there own server from there own hardware. I am still in the Alpha stages of slimming down Ubuntu and sending it to Canonical for evaluation so it can be marked as a official distro/remix.
(Please bare with me.)
Up and till today I was going to do Ubuntu but since Fedora released there Alpha build of Fedora Server I may change it to Fedora Server after all. (I visited Fedora's booth at Texas Linux Feast this past summer which they were talking about Fedora.next/Fedora 21). However I want to get in touch with the server group so I can maybe see if I can get them too add my software stack + some other software that I would like to make bundled for the server roles, but I want to make my presence be known to the community before I start posting in other mailing list. Just a courtesy. :)
Lastly, I have basic skills in Java, C#, BASH, and some C (Got me a book on scripting circa 1990 for scripting, so I'm learning a bit at a time.). Also I am well versed in hardware and networking. Also I have a dire love for embedded, (even though I'm new, I think there are tons of possibilities for stuff to be done in this sector.)
Thank you for reading my lengthy post, but I hope this will be the last time. :)
Regards, John
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 21:06 -0500, John Unland wrote:
Greetings everyone!
Hello John!
My name is John and I'm a Junior working on my Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. I recently got involved with Linux a year and half ago. But I have and seen Linux used by one of my friends in High School. It wasn't until a little over a year ago when I wanted to learn and use Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 because I thought it was a interesting product for people with a small IT infrastructure to use for there small business. To my dismay I found out that good ole' MS had cut support 1-2 years ago and so it was irrelevant for me to learn it because it was unsupported like XP.
Long story short, I came to one of my professors wanting to do a research project on open source Linux / software adaptation for small business particularly targeting the server. Since then I have made a very capable distro from Ubuntu that would replace + give SB owners the resource to run there own server from there own hardware. I am still in the Alpha stages of slimming down Ubuntu and sending it to Canonical for evaluation so it can be marked as a official distro/remix.
That sounds really interesting!
(Please bare with me.)
Up and till today I was going to do Ubuntu but since Fedora released there Alpha build of Fedora Server I may change it to Fedora Server after all. (I visited Fedora's booth at Texas Linux Feast this past summer which they were talking about Fedora.next/Fedora 21). However I want to get in touch with the server group so I can maybe see if I can get them too add my software stack + some other software that I would like to make bundled for the server roles, but I want to make my presence be known to the community before I start posting in other mailing list. Just a courtesy. :)
Heh. I'm sure the server group will be happy to hear your suggestions. Even if they do not accept all the changes that you propose - they have a technical specification set out for the product; you can always create your own Fedora spin and use our infrastructure to maintain it:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Technical_Specification http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_SIG
Spins aren't too much work, once you get the hang of them.
Lastly, I have basic skills in Java, C#, BASH, and some C (Got me a book on scripting circa 1990 for scripting, so I'm learning a bit at a time.). Also I am well versed in hardware and networking. Also I have a dire love for embedded, (even though I'm new, I think there are tons of possibilities for stuff to be done in this sector.)
Nice! We have Fedora community folks tinkering in all those areas - look at FEL/Fedora ARM for embedded systems, for example.
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
Thank you for reading my lengthy post, but I hope this will be the last time. :)
Heh. I'm sure we'll run into you on the many other Fedora mailing lists. I hope you have a fun time working with everyone. If you need any help, do drop us an e-mail.
All the best!
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