Linux

I got started with Linux back at version 0.95a, in the Winter of 1991. Before long, I was participating in kernel development. Now I'm among the two hundred or so people listed in the Linux kernel CREDITS file.

Not too long ago, my main Linux related activities were related to the development of Midori Linux, including package maintenance and a nifty combination of the Linux Progress(-bar) Patch with my own "make_bootlogo" script into what I've dubbed, the "Linux Boot Screen Patch".

More recently, I've been tinkering with a new project I call, "mnemo". It's what I like to call a "memory acceleration tool", an aid to memorizing things efficiently and fixing them into long-term memory. Right now it's just a text-based Perl application but I'm re-implementing it as a PHP app with a PostgreSQL back-end so it will handle multiple simultaneous users and any multimedia content that a browser will support.

Linux User Groups

I started out with the Milwaukee Linux Users Group (MLUG) not too long after it was formed, and served as "Facilitator" for a year before going to work at Transmeta in California. They're a great bunch, and I'm glad to be back.

While I was living in Silicon Valley, I hooked up with the local "SVLUG". It was pretty interesting, since so many of the people behind major Linux stuff live in that area. (I even got to co-present Midori Linux with Dave Taylor, the guy who ported Doom and Quake to Linux!)

rdmiller3@gmail.com