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Este soy yo You've arrived to that bright side of the internet, owned by Felipe Salazar. I am a 22-year-old, Colombian-born, Electrical and Computer Engineering student. Colombia is an average-sized country in South America, and home to many of South America's natural wonders such as the Andes mountain range, the Amazon rainforest, and Los Llanos. I came to the US about 10 years ago, and since then I've put maximum effort on achieving academic success and taking advantage of the huge benefits the US provides to its students. I arrived in Miami, Florida, where I immediately enrolled in middle school. During these years my passion for Computers developed tremendously, starting with simple tinkering with PCs and leading to self learning C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java and at one point being fluent in various libraries and frameworks including SDL, OpenGL, Qt, Cocoa, and (of course) the Java class library, as well as .NET.

The following was my spring 2011 schedule, the toughest workload I've endured at GT:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00
10:00
11:00 ECE6771 ECE6771 ECE6771
12:00 ECE6101 ECE6101
1:00 ECE8843 ECE8843 ECE8843
2:00 PHYS6567 PHYS6567
3:00 ECE6540 ECE6540 ECE6540
4:00
5:00
6:00
  • ECE8843 - Carbon and Molecular Nanoelectronics
  • ECE6771 - Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices, Processes
  • ECE6101 - Parallel and Distributed Computer Architectures
  • ECE6550 - Organic Optoelectronics
  • PHYS6567 - Ultrafast Optics


I am also an avid Linux user. My linux life started in late October 2006, with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). This was my second attempt at using Linux – about a year earlier, I had made an unsuccessful attempt due to driver problems with my ATI 9800 Pro ... and I wasn't so determined to get things working at that point. So, with my fingers crossed, Dapper booted up nicely and a lengthy adventure began. My early "distro-hopping" adventures took me through countless projects including:
  • Ubuntu
  • OpenSUSE Top Pick!
  • Ulteo
  • PCLinuxOS
  • Mandriva
  • Debian
  • Fedora Top Pick!
  • Sabayon
  • Arch
  • Gentoo
  • Puppy
  • Damn Small Linux
As pointed out above, my recommendations are:
OpenSUSE Fedora