New to Trisquel

Hello all,

Today I finally did it. I downloaded the Trisquel iso file and am looking forward to installing it on my personal laptop once I get home.

I am trying to learn as much as I can about software libre, and Trisquel was just great when I tried it out. Hopefully my experience with it will be better than with gNewSense, with which I had too many difficulties to set up a usable system.

The reason why I am trying to learn and cooperate in any way I can is because, although I've been reading almost every word that's printed on GNU, the Linux kernel, and the like, I have had to take it easy and walk towards freedom one step at a time. I toyed with linux back in the 90's, but personal turmoils did not help me find the time to really learn it much more than as a confident user. Ever since then, I jumped back on the wagon with the Ubuntu releases, which have gone, in my opinion, in the wrong direction regardless of all the great work they've done in making linux attractive for regular users. Afterwards I used Debian and Fedora. Although both of them are great distributions which more than fulfill my needs, I just needed to take one more step towards freedom, and after trying gNewSense and failing at it, I've decided to take on Trisquel.

Trisquel is appealing to me for two reasons: first of all, it's a free, polished and well maintained distribution as far as I can judge it so far. Second, I just feel incredibly proud of the people who started the project. I am from Latin America, and my wife is spanish, and to see the amount of people from both latin america and spain involved in the software libre world is just amazing. I really want to be a part of this and do my best to stay afloat in a world that is going more and more in a direction with which I'm not comfortable.

I am going to familiarize myself with the distribution, and hopefully I'll be able to help in the future. As far as skills go, I am well versed in English, Spanish, and German. I also have a bit of experience in operating systems, C/C++ programming, some java, html, python, and bash scripting. At the moment, I'm studying an engineering career on embedded systems, and working full time for a software company.

In my free time, I still enjoy multi user dungeons (MUDs), specifically the original LP MUD, Genesis MUD, via tinyfugue.

I look forward to exchanging ideas, asking for help, and contributing in any way possible to the project.

Thanks again,
Miguel.