People of openSUSE: Michael Meeks
GNOME and full time OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks was invited by ‘People of openSUSE’ to an interview, and here are his answers! Just in case, if you will be in FOSDEM 2008 do not miss the opportunity to meet him there, and attend his talk in the openSUSE DevRoom.
When and why did you start using openSUSE/SUSE Linux?
Ah, that’s easy - before Novell bought SUSE some years ago, I switched to using it instead of RedHat - fly the flag and so on. Of course, initially there were some annoying differences: nothing right or wrong, just different. I think there’s been a lot more distribution convergence since then. Of course, with yast2, and increasingly the hot-plug / auto-configuration of desktop devices knowing exactly where configuration files live is much less of an issue than it used to be.
When did you join the openSUSE community and what made you do that?
I’m not sure there is a joining moment really. I see community as a web of individual relationships, a distributed experience of trust & respect in each other’s development abilities. As an aside, in my experience those who start from a place that sees ‘community’ as an end in itself end up down a rat-hole. The fun is in the hacking, the people, their relationships and of course their occasional conflicts. Hopefully our community is very easy to drift into & get involved, with no hard boundaries.
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