Sorry about not being more specific in there, you're absolutely right. I wouldn't mention it in an actual CV or cover letter, I just wanted to put it on here so

Sorry about not being more specific in there, you're absolutely right. I wouldn't mention it in an actual CV or cover letter, I just wanted to put it on here so you can see my long-term interest in CS, that it's not just to pay the bills. As a general issue my hardware is mostly old and crappy, while most of it does have foss linux drivers the specific configuration for some is quite impossible to manage. I've been trying to figure it out with a lot of AL experts on the forums for some years now. So my interest in that would be learning how drivers work so I can actually configure them properly, helping rewrite the documentation, and maybe helping rewrite the drivers themselves if necessary. Probably the first step would be learning how to get a working Gentoo system up, as I spend a lot of time reading their documentation anyway. For example, the 2011 MacBook Pro has two video cards: an integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, and a discrete AMD Radeon HD 6750M. It works like * even on OSX (it literally froze up on me for 15 minutes while I was writing this post), but on Arch I can't even get it to run so I just use single-user mode and do everything from bash. Unfortunately as fun as Mutt and Elinks are, I can't apply to jobs using that so I'm forced to run OSX. As a specific interest there's a lot of areas that intrigue me in the realm of FOSS development for ARM (and HURD!).