[tlug] introduction: just moved to Kobe, any linux activity out there ?

["J. Hart" <jfhart085@example.com>]

Greetings All.....:-)

The wife and I just moved to Kobe from the US, and I'm looking around to 
see what sort of Linux activity there still is in Japan.

I previously spent 14 years in Japan working in artificial life (alife) 
at a research facility in Kyoto.  I worked on the alife system called 
Tierra by Tom Ray and others, and helped develop the network version of 
it.  If you've ever read "Artificial Life" by Steven Levy, you've seen 
the discussion of that project.  I moved back to US for a few years when 
my lab closed.  The wife and I decided we missed Japan, and we decided 
to retire here.

I've been programming since the late 1960's and early 70's.  I've been 
working with Linux from 1996 or so, with Amigas since the mid 80's 
before that, and still other things before that.

I'm currently using a Linux distro I designed and built entirely from 
source code just for the fun of it.  I liked the result so well, I kept 
using it, and have ported it to several other platforms including the 
Raspberry Pi.