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["Simon Rosenaa" <polarbeardk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, welcome to UGA :-)
I'm Artificial Intelligence (forum name), guide maker and much more.
Pleasure to have you on the team.

regards
Simon Rosenaa

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:26 PM,  <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am the new team member. Hopefully, we'll make nice things together -
> well, you already have.
>
> I'm here after meeting compiledkernel on Ubuntu forums, after discovering
> that we shared a passion - Games, and Linux games in particular. Like you,
> I strive to make Linux gaming more known to the public, more popular, more
> friendly. UGA seems like the right platform for such ideas.
>
> So, let me introduce myself. Here's the semi-long version. Some of it is
> purely personal, professional and irrelevant, but you might want to know
> about the new kid on the block, apart from the fact he likes games.
>
> I'm male, 30.5, married, working as Linux Systems Expert / Systems
> Programmer in a big company (Think IBM, Google, HP, Intel, one of those
> :)), hacking and optimizing the kernel. Used to work as a physicist in
> medical industry; this is my university education, btw. Linux started as a
> hobby and turned into a profession. I'm also a certified LSA, got LPIC-1
> and am working on LPIC-2, got the first exam done, and SANS GSEC. I'm
> skilled in quite a few programming languages, although more from the
> scientific point of view than pure coding.
>
> Linux-wise, I'm trying to bring Linux to the masses any which way
> possibly, but mainly by patience and thorough work. To this end, I'm
> writing a series of books on Linux. I'm also maintaining a website,
> dedoimedo.com, which some of you may have visited before. It's a fairly
> popular site, with 5,000 daily hits on average and spikes up to 20,000 on
> good days.
>
> My favorite distros are Ubuntu and openSUSE on desktop, CentOS on (home)
> server, I work mainly with SLES (and some Redhat), and have used, tested
> and reviewed more than 100 distros.
>
> Games-wise, have played them since I got dexterity in both my thumbs.
> Naturally, most of it revolves around DOS and Windows, but I have recently
> been paying more and more attention to Linux gaming, which is where our
> paths cross.
>
> Like other Linux topics, I think the Linux gaming should be advanced with
> care and love and patience, mainly among the Windows users, since Linux
> users hardly need any convincing. I believe the bulk of effort should be
> placed where the popularity and awareness to Linux is the least. I also
> think that any crusader-style approach is counter-productive to the cause.
>
> I hope to bring more focus to Linux gaming via my own work at the website,
> community effort in various forums, including gaming forums where I
> actively participate, but also, if possible, working with developers. As a
> crude example, well, quite a few games lack PR, beginning with websites
> via poor documentation. Furthermore, some genres are overdeveloped, while
> others are neglected. Quite afew Linux games lack a storyline, which makes
> them seem shallow.
>
> I hope to change this / see this changed.
>
> That would be it for my first mail. I hope I was clear and cohorent
> enough. Hopefully, we can do nice things together.
>
> Cheers,
> Dedoimedo
>
>
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