--Tertl3 22:49, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
- Name: William Blackburn
- email: blackburn.william2@gmail.com
- IRC Nick: @irc.freenode.net : tertl3
- Location: Taylors, South Carolina. USA
About me
I have always been interested in electronics and software. Since I was a kid I have been a kind of software nerd. From playing vidop games to putting games on my TI-83 Plus calculator. Needless to say, this led to an interest in Linux and the Linux community. As for my interest in music, well, the story isn't much different.
I began playing guitar when I was a teenager. I went to the local arts school for my elective class and studied jazz. I have been listening too and playing music ever since. During my college years, I was introduced to Fedora and eventually, being a musician and a Linux user, I began to try combining the two. And, to my rejoice, I found the JACK application. It didn't take long for me to discover the real-time preemption patch and I have been hooked ever since.
Current Undertakings
I have decided to begin writing an intro/tutorial on real-time preemption. The topic really peaked my interest so I decided to focus on real-time preemption for audio purposes and make this a document for someone who, like me, is a musician, but is also genuinely interested in real-time computing and wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the tweaks that are involved in turning the stock Fedora OS into a (soft)real-time Fedora OS. Since many of the tutorials I have read are not distribution specific, I thought this would be good place for me to begin contributing to the Open Source community. This page can be found here.