hello! i am linear. i also go by and have gone by some other names.
by day i semi-successfully pose as an eccentric human woman.
i have previously employed as an embedded systems software engineer. this has required me to
work with things such as Yocto Linux, Android, Builtroot, OpenWRT, FreeRTOS, etc. sometimes it involves me writing C/C++ code.
i am currently employed as a senior software engineer doing Linux distribution development for a major internet and cloud services company.
in my spare time, i have many hobbies that i pursue, most of which involve computers in some capacity.
i have an interest in computer history. sometimes i like to use and maintain computers that others might
consider obsolete. at some point i will add a list of them to this website.
sometimes i write code.
i have written a gameboy emulator that doesn't work very well, but was fun to write.
i spent some time optimizing the quake engine to make it run a bit faster on 486 PCs.
over the years, i have contributed to a semi-popular quake 2 mod and run a server for it.
when i was five years old, i learned how to write simple web pages in html, by hand.
i don't see why i should use anything else today.
it wouldn't be much of an exaggeration to say that i grew up in a server room.
i have the tinnitus to prove it.
i use NetBSD, and run it on many different computers and architectures.
sometimes i try to add support for it to various open source projects.
if you have an ASN and are interested in discussing or participating in an IPX-protocol network (whether running Novell NetWare or something else), or are interested in having access to such a network as an end user, please get in touch.