User:Spyhawk

Some general informations about me

Rémy Marquis (Spyhawk)

• Google Profile
• Native of Switzerland, living abroad
• Speaking French (native), English (fluent), German (ein bisschen)
• GPG Fingerprint 148E 3F4C 23E7 7889 F83B 21A9 4A61 121A C9E7 88FD

There is several ways to contact me:

• E-mail : spyhawk @ opensuse.org
• IRC : Spyhawk @ Freenode.net
• Forums : Spyhawk @ openSUSE Forums
• Wiki : Discussion page

How I discover the open source's world

• Having some problems with my well known operating system, I naturally made, as a last resort, a new fresh installation. After long minutes of waiting and a few clicks, the first start screen finally appeared. When I opened my first window, I simply got a crash and a nice blue screen... It was time to find another solution.
• I choose the same OS as one of my friend, starting with Red Hat Linux 7.3 "Vahalla" at mid of 2002. After some months of discovery of this new world, I switched to Mandrake 9.0 (now Mandriva) at the end of the same year. Mandrake was at this time the most popular distribution in the French-speaking region, so I go with it until the 10.0 release in the beginning of march 2004. As this specific release wouldn't install on my laptop, I bought a magazine with SuSE 9.0 release, was really impressed by YaST, the nice look design of the interface and the overall quality, and thus, I never come back to my old distribution.
• By the way, even if my main distribution is openSUSE, I also tried to install some other distributions time to time, just "for see" and do some test, including Fedora, Gentoo, Mepis, (K)Ubuntu, Slackware and FreeBSD. Another distribution I really like is the lightweight Arch Linux. Today, I stick with openSUSE, because it just works and for the reason that it is probably the distribution that fulfills my needs in the best way.

I build some stuff that didn't exist in RPM format for openSUSE, or do my own experimentation in my oBS account

• Project home
• Repository
• GPG Fingerprint : 66DF 945F 5F0E 3432 1748 DC9B 5342 C311 76ED C1FF

Since I have been using openSUSE, I had the opportunity to make a few small contribution to this great project

• Doing some user support on IRC and forums
• Writing and improving some documentation through wiki editing, when I saw that something useful doesn't exist (en.o.o, osc.o, fr.o.o)
• Playing with some test and bugs report, in order to improve for the next openSUSE
• Helping in some translation for a better localization (main page, help.o.o, openSUSE-fr team)
• Some promoting through news in french linux website (DLFP)