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Some things I have done for/with Linux:

Advocacy:

• Firenze Linux User Group
  • Promoter and administrator of the Primipassi mailing list for Linux newbies
• co-founder of the Prato Linux User Group
• Clueless at prompt
  a short lecture (in Italian) on the usage of the Bash shell in Linux. As it was released under a public licence, it has been upgraded and expanded, and used in various Linux courses 1.
• Dissecting the Linux Worm

Public code:

• Collect
• PAW++: initial port to Linux (1996)
• xdebug (php debugger) patch
• SQuirreL SQL start script patch
• cURL: handling of broken HTTP 1.1
• Xemacs: patch to fortran.el
• patches to the Call-Back Client Protocol for PPPd
• HEP Packages for Scientific Linux

I do not like many of the things that Microsoft does.