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Callsign N3EUA became KB0G as a "slow-code Extra" Packet Radio One of the 4 original founders of "tcp-group" Packaged and distributed the KA9Q code until 890421.1 TAPR board, Vice President during N0CCZ years PS-186 / Data Engine fiasco Microwave data links with N6GN, N6RCE, et al Gracilis %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page When Last We Left Our Hero... Free Software RCA 1802 COSMAC ELF and the ACE Z80's and CP/M Early'ish Days of UNIX Emergence of Free OS Community Debian Space Founded the CMU chapter of L5 Society Work HP -> Agilent %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page AMSAT Microsats Provided test gear shortly after joining HP in 1986 Participated in design reviews Last-minute procurement of "unobtainable" parts Phase-3D GPS W3IWI proposes a GPS time/orbit/attitude experiment NJ0C (ex WD0FHG) suggests we sign up the AMD 29200 CPU board that never flew Project Meltdown %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page AMSAT Phase-3D RUDAK Represented GPS project at design meeting at SSTL in December 1994 The "ultimate" orbiting packet radio engine! Phase-3D CAN DB2OS proposed CAN as a command/control bus for Phase-3D SSTL got interested, but not in P3D hardware The "CAN do" guys for AO-40... NJ0C and KB0G KB0G adapted SSTL prototype CAN server for SCOS NJ0C wrote 82527 driver for CAN server NJ0C and KB5MU work on 68HC11 target code %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page How Bdale Found Debian Early MINIX Hacker, Aware of Linux The GPS 29200 CPU needed software. Early and enthusiastic BSD/OS user & beta tester The cross compilation toolchain ... KD9KX and others kept redoing all the work so they could use Linux The license price increase -> one more Linux convert Bruce Perens and "Linux for Hams" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page What is Debian? %font "typewriter" `The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system.' %font "standard" More specifically, Debian: is one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions is the largest GNU/Linux distribution runs on the most architectures is a completely open, volunteer organization is Focused on Freedom is quite international works with companies to develop and maintain software is well represented in the free software world %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page A Few Debian Statistics six released architectures alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc additional architectures about to release hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 only distribution also working with the HURD and BSD 955 maintainers 5643 source packages 8853 binary packages %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Brief IA-64 Port History Before Debian had Hardware Playing with "Public" Systems Hosted by SourceForge Initial Debian Packages Built Needed Hardware to Progress Further HP Provides a BigSur HP Loans Agilent 3 Systems, 2 HP-UX + 1 Linux One Ends up in Bdale's Cubicle... Bdale Takes One "so Tausq can Play with a Machine" Compiled in a chroot Until System Self-Hosting Bdale Starts an Autobuilder... HP Hires Bdale, Sends out Lots of Hardware... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page A "Dream Job" with HP Helping make sure HP participates as a good citizen in the Debian and larger Open Source communities Enable multi-architecture, multi-distribution Linux installation and support on HP hardware Leading technical development of HP's Enablement Kit for Linux products Helping form HP Linux strategy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Becoming the Debian Project Leader Debian has a Social Contract and a Constitution Project Leader is elected annually by Debian's Developers Still figuring out what it means... Representation Advocacy Leadership Interesting side benefits... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page To Learn More %center %size 8 http://www.debian.org/ http://www.hp.com/