Hello again World!

Hii everyone! It’s been a long time. So before writing a post about any distro, I thought I should put up a “Hello World” post. and here it is. How you doing folks?

Soooo, this post is going to have some bits from what I have been upto in the past few months.

Let’s start from february. Yeah right, you guys must have read the LTSB post, if you haven’t, I suggest you do. So after february, In march I had midsems in my college. Last sem was most exausting till date.

Next, I joined the lubuntu-development channel on telegram. Created an account on phabricator. It’s like a register for all the development work of lubuntu. There are various tasks defined here which are related to a bug or a feature of Lubuntu. Started working on a task related to default apps for various file types in lubuntu. The task landed into the repo on April 11. It means the changes I made were pushed throught updates to the development branch which was at that time, Lubuntu 19.04.

It felt soo good to have contributed to a project like Lubuntu (which is also my favourite linux distro.) The team is very helpful and welcoming. They helped me at every stage, right from setting up my system for packaging to setting up my ssh keys with the phab account. The team is really awesome.

Then Lubuntu 19.04 was launched after a few days. Felt good to be featured in the release notes of Disco Dingo. Yup! You can find me there. Go checkout http://www.lubuntu.me

Then came Compre. Yeah, terrifing I know. But before compre, I joined the Windows Insider program and got to test the Windows 10 19H1 features before most users. Also as all major linux distros released their next versions, I ran some of them from a live usb and Ubuntu 19.04 is the most beautiful version of ubuntu till date hands down!

Then came summer and paid summer internships, yeah. I paid for it. Thanks to Practice School I. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I had the internship at Government Irrigation wokrshop, Roorkee. Just the last word is important. Roorkee. Watta place! Stayed in IIT Roorkee for 2 months. Had many trips to the Mountains, ticking things of bucket lists. The ride to Mussoorie is the one I can never forget. Swim through Ganga was one hell of an experience. Also, not to forget, the city of Dehradun. If there’s one place I would like to stay, other than Hyderabad and Kolkata, it would be Dehradun.

My daily schedule when not roaming anywhere, would be waking up at noon, having lunch, an afternoon nap, a swim in the pool(yes! IITR has a swimming pool), then sitting in the hostel canteen from evening till midnight, reading Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments (finished 7 books), A walk around campus just to gather those daily StepSetGo coins.

Now came the favourite part, working with lubuntu. To learn and get good at packaging, I had to be around when other developers were available. That meant night time according to IST.

Wrote my first kernel while I was in Roorkee. Had to first build a cross compiler and then use that compiler to compile the kernel. Followed the OS Devs wiki. Dammnn! It’s a bible for people loving Operating systems.

As all good things come to an end, PS I ended. Was stuck between not leaving Roorkee and wanting to go home. On my way back, had a day in Delhi. As the capital of our country, I must say, that is place is doing quite a good job.

Came back home, rested a couple of days and then, the boredom hit me. I had absolutely nothing to do. I had a taken a break from packaging and testing lubuntu coz my parents are going to freak out if they see me working all night. So, to counter boredom, I decided to visit my village. As it’s Ghatnandur, its surrounded by ghats and mountains all around and riding through them, while it was raining, was very refreshing.

Came back to Hyderabad on 30th July. College started, have 8am classes daily (Someone take me back to the mountains). But contributing to Lubuntu never stopped. Created a grub theme for lubuntu. Gonna push it in coming release. I became the moderator of lubunu-devel and lubuntu-users mailing lists. Attended the ubuntu-flavors meet of July on Google Meets along with wxl, tsimonq2 and teward. All of them are Lubuntu-developers.

Became an official Lubuntu Member last week. Which means inherently, I am also an Ubuntu Member. There are various perks, having custom email ids of theloudspeaker@ubuntu.com and theloudspeaker@lubuntu.me is one of them.

Next goal is to become an official Lubuntu-developer. It’s a long way to go but gonna definitely try.

Wrapping up, here are some future plans:

• Continue contributing to Lubuntu
• Improve CG. (Want PS II to be in Bangalore with nice project. Don’t even ask me what was the project at my PS I)
• Write a post about upcoming releases of *ubuntus before Eoan versions are released.
• Shift the blog from WordPress to my aws machine. Self hosted. Revamp it, if time permits.
• Try to host a ubuntu mirror on campus. Work in progress.
• Gain weight.

Alright folks, keep visiting.

Aham Bhrahmasmi!