Hello everyone,
I am going to be very honest. I would love to became a member and contribute.
Even knowing that I'm still learning and I don't know much about low level
(mostly hardware) programming (like drivers etc..), I think that I could help
a lot, since I have a lot of motivation, and a lot of free time for what I
love and believe :D
The real problem is that I have switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux for the
same reasons that I will mostly switch from Trisquel to Parabola. And those
reasons are :
1 - I want to have an updated System without doing almost anything to update
it :S The packages don't need to be on the second, but using the kernel 3.0
when even Ubuntu is using the kernel 3.2 (or 3.5 in October) can be a little
bit frustrating for my eyes. I know that I could help with packaging and turn
this beautiful Distribution into something more often updated, but isn't this
against the "Always Stable" idea behind the Ubuntu/Debian and Trisquel mind ?
2 - I only want to have 1 Distribution installed on my computer. Because I
know that I won't use the other at all for a long time :S...
3 - I really hate apt-get and aptitude :S... Almost the same as I hate the
organization behind the Debian/Ubuntu packages, like the need to have
OpenJDK6 installed in order to have OpenJDK7 and other problems that are in
relation with packages and dependencies.
And more that I forget...
So please don't take this as offensive, like if I was saying that Trisquel is
not good (this is not what I intended, I am right know using it since
yesterday, and to be honest, if I had to choose between any Ubuntu/Debian
based distributions, I will choose without thinking twice this distribution).
But since I probably won't use this everyday now that I've found that a Free
Software Distribution based on Arch Linux exists, I can't just offer my help
for something that I would not use everyday, that would be unfair for
everyone, and I have already the fear of not being at the level of this
awesome community, that adding this problem could be very bad for me.
This is why I donated 1€ (it is all I have on my bank account for now, but
it is better than nothing, since you people deserve better this money then
all the companies that I have already give money to (like Microsoft for
example))...
And this is why I cannot become an Associate Member, because it would be
unfair for everyone.
I hope everyone understand.
Best Regards,
Luis Da Costa
