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User recounts journey of Linux contributions across multiple mailing lists

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The user details their history of contributing to various Linux mailing lists, starting with the Video4Linux list due to a video capture card issue. They recount attempts to get hardware like a Lego NXT, a specific USB WiFi stick, and an Android tablet with an Allwinner SoC working on Linux. Despite participating in lists like linux-wireless, linux-scsi, and linux-sunxi, their ambitions of contributing significantly, such as upstreaming Allwinner code or programming graphics cards, were never realized. AI

RANK_REASON This is a personal anecdote about past contributions to Linux mailing lists, not a significant industry event.

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User recounts journey of Linux contributions across multiple mailing lists

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    RE: https:// circumstances.run/@davidgerard /117441841785502664 I started on the video4linux mailing list because I had a video capture card that I wanted to us

    RE: https:// circumstances.run/@davidgerard /117441841785502664 I started on the video4linux mailing list because I had a video capture card that I wanted to use and it needed some specific configuration. This was my first real contribution to Linux. I found that the Lego NXT sho…

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