November 2013, "LINUX Pratique" magazine n°80 (November / December 2013, Page 5).
November 2013, "LINUX Pratique" magazine n°80 (November / December 2013, Page 5).
born in late 1965 in Brittany, France, computer enthusiast for a good bunch of years, I approached the subject with a Philips videopac with 99 instructions in hexadecimal and then I went to ZX81 (a great little thing at an unbeatable price at the time) and I finaly went to the PC, which I never left. After having hacked in BASIC language like everyone else at this time, I wrote some Z80 assembler routines and long listings of 8086/8088 codes (window graphics manager - on my Hercules card, with graphic mode management of a font - that of the Turbo Pascal, never completed but functional) on my first PC XT (in 1986), then I flew (without deepening) Pascal and C. Today I don't write anymore (but I always make mistakes spelling).
My experience with operating systems was under DOS, then under Windows, eventually moving to GNU/Linux in 2003 (a short stint on Mandrake, a long one on Debian, and now on Manjaro - which Louis introduced me to) that fits my expectations, and that I will not trade for anything in the world (not even for 2 barrels of washing powder).
born in May 2002 near Cherbourg, Normandy, passionate about video games, he tested a good part (30%?) of the games of The Linux Games Book. He has already contributed to writing a few dozen tests and provided many tips.
Young, always in a good mood and a good gamer.
Mr. Louis is a less active contributor today. After a stint on the dark side (translate: Windows) - originally so as not to be ignorant of what's still predominantly used in the working world, then because he had a taste for blockbusters - he ended up back on Linux. He's even a fervent advocate of it (much more so than I am), both at work (he lives in Lyon and works in computer networks) and in the community (installing Linux in his mother's and grandfather's homes, and in anyone else's who wants it).
Le Bottin des Jeux Linux / The Linux Games Book is under CC-BY license.
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