tuxmaniac’s blog

Its always the “first” things in life that stand out in your life. Be it First Love, First Car, First House, First Salary… Bosch happens to be my first job. Joined way back in June 2005 as a Associate Engineer. Yesterday was the day when I had to leave the campus as a Senior Engineer. It is June 2008, 3 long years and so many people I have met, so many friends I have made. It was a difficult time but as the saying goes “Life moves on”. I never expected the entire floor to be present during my farewell, but it happened.

I will be leaving Bangalore shortly in less than 48 hours to Chennai were I will be on a break doing random stuff I like and eating Home food for the next 2 months. After that it will be yet another farewell. This time it might be even more difficult as I will be leaving my family, country for quite some time. Yes! I will be heading to Europe, Switzerland to be more specific, for my Masters in Electronics at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) If you find me committing more than usual to the free software projects that I am part of, hanging too long on IRC, its because I am unemployed at this moment

Neverthless, It was great working in Bosch and I will miss everything when I am gone. But, you need to sacrifice certain things to fulfil other interests and ambitions in Life. Oh btw, I got a very cute little Penguin soft toy as one of the gifts. Photos of all my other gifts later.

Free Software updates

- PIKLab, the  IDE for application development for PIC Micro controllers was failing to build from source on Fedora 9. Fixed it and uploaded into the Fedora repos. Thanks to Chitlesh for sponsoring the upload. Here is the commit message.

- Working on getting Ecos packaged for Fedora. Fedora Electronic Laboratory 10 “DVD” is on its way..
- Still no updates from the Regents of the University of California regarding the license of Magic. Still to get into Debian/Ubuntu. Same story holds good for IRSIM. But, IRSIM has an explicit COPYRIGHT file which clear mentions that it is licensed under GPL, the debian mentors team would want it to be included on all source file headers. May be I misunderstood this thread. If anyone can provide more clarity on this, I would be more than happy because its struggling to get into the repos.

- Committed a patch provided by Marcelo Souza to fix SF Bug #1966993 in gnusim8085. Still loads more to go.

- It is very clear now that Debian/Ubuntu are lagging behind in the tools available for Electronic design, embedded development. May be I can change that. Seems like the target I set for the year regarding the same is on track, just with some of the above mentioned license issues stopping it from going to completion But its Never say Die. Certain things are never in your hands.

Personal updates

- Been living like a nomad for the past few days out of my car. Sleeping at all friend’s places, using my employer’s restrooms to great extent.

- My three year long stay in Bangalore coming to an end. More updates on that soonish.