This site is the hobby playground of me, David Donnelly. It is a learning tool namely to see if I can actually do it and secondly to maybe help someone else along the way. As it is purely for my own enjoyment (or frustration depending on the day and task at hand), I make no apologies for its appearance or lack of professional content.
GnuAttitude is something I thought up about 5 or 6 years ago. It was around this time that I became disenchanted with Microsoft and began a changeover to the Linux. Since then our whole household has become 99% Windows free. I would be 100% except the tax software I like to use, Quick Tax, is not supported under Linux. If there was another solution, I would be rid of it totally.
GnuAttitude is really 2 words. The first part, Gnu (pronounced g-noo) is meant to infer my beliefs and feeling as related to open source software, and is directly related to the GNU Project . Their page explains in greater detail than I ever could what “free” or open source software is all about, and oddly enough, it has little to do with money or cost. Attitude is meant to infer that I have an “open” attitude towards what software I use, and that I believe that open source software is usually more useful and more secure than it’s closed source brother.
One of the things I like most about the open source community is that help from others is close at hand. A google search can usually turn up a quick answer to whatever problem I might have encountered. It is after several years of playing with Linux and getting help from others that I had the idea to have a site of my own.
I thought it would be nice that one day I might have a site to show up with an answer to somebody’s problem, as I have been so fortunate so many times before. But alas I have no computer programming skills, so all I can offer is some of my limited knowledge of some of my hobbies and pastimes. It may not be useful at all but at least I had fun learning how to do it. 
