My Name is Dr. Gordon Dunlop and my Ph.D. is in Environmental Physiology/Genetics. My thesis is entitled "Linking Germination Traits of Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.) to DNA Markers". So I am an academic and scientist. I have also a MSc. Information Technology where my master's dissertation was "Evaluating the Performance and Potential of Para- and Paene- Virtualisation Technologies in a Linux Beowulf Cluster".
I have been a Unix/Linux user for many years, still learning and trying to put back into the community at large. I use Fedora through personal choice as I believe it is the cutting edge of Linux distrobutions and I feel comfortable with it.
Contact
- Email: astrozubenel@googlemail.com
- LUG-Email: dundee-owner@lists.lug.org
- Fedora Account: Zubenel
Activities
- I am the Administrator or LUGMaster of Dundee & Tayside Linux User Group
Our mailing list
- We meet at The University of Abertay Dundee fortnightly as the Abertay Linux Society. website:http://www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk/
We try to promote at the University about Linux and free and open source software.
- We had a very successfull Software Freedom Day: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009347o-2000469549b,00.htm
The Itinery is here:http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/abertay-dundee .
- The most fascinating Fedora project that I have ever seen is the POSSE project:
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE
Aims
- To promote Free and Open Software within Tayside, Scotland and the United Kingdom and to be adopted within the educational infrastructure - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/sign .
- To promote Fedora/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Redhat as a Desktop/Server/Enterprise solution to proprietary software.
- To cultivate and promote the Linux Infrastructure within my country of Scotland.
- To get actively involved in the POSSE project so that the aims and ideals can be implemented within Scotland and the United Kingdom.