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<p><strong><em>17, <ahref="http://mkaysi.github.com/Asperger.html">AS</a>, Linux user since 2008, currently using <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>, interested in computers and some kind of Finnish translator.</em></strong></p>
<p>My name is Mika Suomalainen. I am probably more known with my nickname <em>Mkaysi</em>. I am seventeen years old, even though people often think that I am older which can probably be explained with my <ahref="http://mkaysi.github.com/Asperger.html">Asperger's syndrome</a>. I started using Linux in 2008 and the distribution was <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> 8.04 Hardy Heron. I am currently using <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>. I am interested in computers. I am also some kind of Finnish translator.</p>
<p>Asperger's Syndrome causes me different kinds of problems, but has also positive things. For example, I can easily remember things which are related to computers, like how I usually set up some operating system. More about it <ahref="http://mkaysi.github.com/Asperger.html">here</a>.</p>
<h2id="linux">Linux</h2>
<p>As I said, I started using Linux in 2008 and the distribution was <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>. But <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> wasn't the first distribution, that I used, it was the first distribution which I installed.</p>
<h3id="damn-small-linux">Damn Small Linux</h3>
<p>I started testing Linux using <ahref="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">Damn Small Linux</a> on USB stick. I didn't do very much with it and I don't think that you can do very much with it when compared to some other distribution.</p>
<h3id="ubuntu">Ubuntu</h3>
<p><ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> was the first distribution that I installed. The release was 8.04 Hardy Heron. I stayed fully in Ubuntu some years before I got involved with Limnoria and that was when I started trying other distributions.</p>
<h3id="debian">Debian</h3>
<p>People in <ahref="http://supybot.fr.cr/">Limnoria</a> got me to try <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> Sid (unstable) and I liked it, because it usually had newer packages than <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and I used it a long time. I did ever manage to crash it if we don't count installing closed <ahref="http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html">nVidia</a> display driver and using <ahref="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental">Debian</a> with higher priority than is sane.</p>
<h3id="arch-linux">Arch Linux</h3>
<p>I also tried <ahref="https://www.archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a> and <ahref="http://archbang.org/">ArchBang</a>, but I didn't get positive experience with them. My experiences were just "install, upgrade, crash" multiple times.</p>
<h3id="linux-mint-debian-edition">Linux Mint Debian Edition</h3>
<p>I used <ahref="http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php">LMDE</a> with netbook for some time, but I wasn't able to get <ahref="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a> into it when I upgraded it to <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> Sid.</p>
<h2id="fedora">Fedora</h2>
<p>I once tried to install <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> to one computer which had problem with current Linux kernel in <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> (>10.04, I don't remember which), but as <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> had the same kernel, it didn't succeed. This issue was solved by installing <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> (>10.04, I still don't remember which) Alpha release.</p>
<p>I didn't have any interest towards <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> until recently when teacher at my current school started recommending it and we had to install it. At the end my interest towards <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> awake when I noticed features which weren't taught, delta packages and fastest-mirror.</p>
<p>Delta packages allow downloading only changes in packages instead of whole packages and fastest-mirror's name says what it does.</p>
<p>Of course delta packages exist with <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> and <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> too, but they aren't used by default and they are harder to use, aren't officially supported, have only one mirror. In <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> just install updates and they are used automatically.</p>
<p>The fastest-mirror is also with <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>, but not enabled by default and it's server side. With <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> there is <ahref="http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt">one dynamic file</a> on mirrors.ubuntu.com that contains the list of near mirrors and with <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> there is <ahref="http://http.debian.net/">Debian</a> which is server side too. If either of these goes down, you can't upgrade.</p>
<p><ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> also has promise to try to keep the latest upstream versions, so I got the new <ahref="http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php">Enigmail</a> faster than I would got with <ahref="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> and <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>.</p>
<h2id="pgpgpg">PGP/GPG</h2>
<pre><code>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
My PGP key ID is 0x4DB53CFE82A46728 and it's fingerprint is
<p>If you see content by me where license isn't mentioned (like this page), the license is one of the three below depending on content.</p>
<h3id="code">Code</h3>
<p>BSD License</p>
<pre><code>Copyright (c) <year> Mika Suomalainen (Mkaysi) & contributors (git shortlog -s)
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the author of this software nor the name of
contributors to this software may be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Portions of the included source code are copyright by its original author(s)
and remain subject to its associated license.</code></pre>
<p>Remember to replace <year> with the year where the content is from. If you don't know the year when the content was made, just use the current year.</p>
<h3id="not-code">Not code</h3>
<h4id="photos">Photos</h4>
<p><strong>This doesn't include screenshots and most things not taken with camera.</strong></p>
<p>Photos by me which don't include license mentioning are licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license aka <ahref="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/">CC-BY-ND</a>.</p>
<h4id="everything-else-than-mentioned-above">Everything else than mentioned above</h4>
<p>All other content by me than the ones mentioned above are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license aka <ahref="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY</a>.</p>
<h3id="whom-to-attribute-with-creative-commons-licenses">Whom to attribute with Creative Commons licenses?</h3>
<p>My name is <strong>Mika Suomalainen</strong> and my homepage is <strong>http://mkaysi.github.com/</strong> . I would like at least this information be attributed and if you want you can also attribute <strong>Mika Suomalainen (Mkaysi)</strong> with homepage <strong>http://mkaysi.github.com/ .</strong></p>
<h3id="why-do-you-have-default-licences-for-works-that-dont-mention-license">Why do you have "default licences" for works that don't mention license?</h3>
<p><strong>Licences under this bolded message don't have anything to do with my work. For information about my works, read above!</strong></p>
<p>I have "signed"<ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement?rd=Legal:FPCA">Fedora Project Contributor Agreement</a> which specifies default licences of signers if they haven't specified their own licences.</p>
<p>The licences which they specify are MIT license for code and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA) with section 4d waived.</p>
<h2id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
<p>to FOSS projects.</p>
<h3id="limnoria">Limnoria</h3>
<p><em><ahref="http://supybot.fr.cr/">Limnoria</a> is an IRC bot which is fork of popular IRC bot known as [Supybot]</em></p>
<p>I have translated <ahref="http://supybot.fr.cr/">Limnoria</a> to Finnish, but as I wasn't experienced in translating, the quality is varying. If you use <ahref="http://supybot.fr.cr/">Limnoria</a>, please <ahref="https://github.com/Mkaysi/Limnoria/issues?state=open">report issues</a> with the translations and I will take a look at them.</p>
<h3id="ubuntu-1">Ubuntu</h3>
<p>I am on some of <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>'s IRC channels and mailing lists and have helped when I have been able to help. I am also member of <ahref="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuYouth">Ubuntu Youth</a> which is nowadays little inactive.</p>
<h3id="debian-1">Debian</h3>
<p>I wasn't so much on their IRC channels, because they are at <ahref="http://www.oftc.net/oftc/">OFTC</a> instead of <ahref="http://freenode.net/">freenode</a>, but I am on some of their mailing lists and I have helped with some problems there.</p>
<h3id="fedora-1">Fedora</h3>
<p>I am on some of <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>'s IRC channels on <ahref="http://freenode.net/">freenode</a> and <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCnet">IRCnet</a> and have helped with some problems. I was also got to edit <ahref="http://linux.fi/wiki/Etusivu">Linux.fi</a> (in Finnish) wiki's <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> pages which were outdated before we fixed them.</p>
<h3id="linux.fi">Linux.fi</h3>
<p>As I said previously, I helped updating pages about <ahref="http://linux.fi/wiki/Fedora">Fedora at Linux.fi</a>, but I also updated some other pages which weren't related only to <ahref="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>.</p>
<p>My PGP key is <ahref="PGP/0x82A46728.txt">0x4DB53CFE82A46728</a> and its fingerprint is <strong>24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728</strong></p>
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