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Alex is an experienced UNIX developer, having used most of the major UNIX operating systems such as SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and NetBSD. He has developed native applications using C/C++, built Java applications and servlets, installed, maintained and adminstrated systems remotely and locally, developed websites using PHP, MySQL, and Java. He has been involved with UNIX since 1996, when he switched from development on Microsoft platforms. As he had been developing on Microsoft platforms since 1993, he felt that he'd gone as far as he could, there were so much more he could do with UNIX. This happened in 1996, and he has never looked back since.
His C.V. is available on request in various file formats, e-mail alex.buell@munted.org.uk for a copy.
At home, his main system is a Dell Inspiron 5150 fitted out with a 3GHz Pentium IV with hyperthreading, 1.25GB of RAM and a 80GB hard disk, connected to the 'net through a Linksys router which has had its firmware replaced with a Linux version, over an ADSL 8MB connection. There are also quite a few other computers; an ancient Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 1GHz Pentium III, 512MB of RAM, and a collection of old 2.5" hard disks to go with it, a Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 2 with dual 300MHz 64bit UltraSparc processors and 2GB of RAM (man, this machine is BIG!), a couple of even older PCs including an very ancient Pentium MMX 166MHz box w/128MB of RAM.
His favourite working environment is Gentoo Linux, running X11, with the BlackBox window manager, along with the GTK+ libraries, miminal yet complete with sufficient features making it useful for serious development.
There's LinuxInfo-1.1.8.tar.gz,
an utility that displays the type of processor, system library version, and
version of Linux kernel in use.
Alex has also written a HOWTO
for using framebuffer devices in Linux.
For convienence, you can download gzipped versions - gzipped/tarred html file
or gzipped/tarred text file. The SGML source is provided here -
gzipped/tarred sgml file.
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