User:Oldcpu

I left Win95 in 1998 for RedHat, and left Red Hat in 2001 for SuSE. I pretty much missed the Win98, 98se, 98me, WinXP and Vista OS as a result of my using only Linux at home since 1998 (I am truely pathetic with those Windoze OS).

I started making an effort to contribute back to the Linux Open Source Free Software movement (per the Free Software Foundation definition) in late 2005 when I joined some SuSE Forums. An area where I am currently trying to contribute to the open source movement is helping newbies get basic sound working on their PCs. I also try to contribute to the openSUSE wiki, where time and my experience permits.

Some documentation work that I have started, or contributed to (and would like to get more contributions to improve these wiki):

• Started page General openSUSE Concepts wiki (and since there have been MANY great contributors OTHER than myself)
• Created General openSUSE Sound Concepts
• Created openSUSE Audio Troubleshooting Guide
• Created page on updating openSUSE alsa via rpm and Alsa-update-snapshot
• Created page on VDPAU in openSUSE
• Contributor to openSUSE chess wiki
• Help-coordinate migration of old suselinuxsupport.de (SLS) HOW-TOs to openSUSE wikis.
• Contributor to openSUSE Video Editing wiki (Video editing is a hobby of mine)
• Created Boot DOS without floppy wiki - converted/modified from Ubuntu page

The things I like about openSUSE are:

• superb 3rd party multimedia packaged by Packman packagers for openSUSE
• openSUSE's excellent KDE implementation
• openSUSE's YaST configuration software
• openSUSE's community (forums, IRC chat ... )
• potential of the new openSUSE Build_Service and SUSE_Studio
• openSUSE's Free_Software_Philosophy

Aside from the nominal internet browsing, email, chat, video/music playback, and office application functionality of openSUSE, the main thing that I use openSUSE for is to create home videos, using application such as kdenlive.