During the high school I did a technical career on Computing and when I was accepted in the Sciences Department of the UNAM, one of the first subjects I took was Computing. Our professors teached us about C, LaTeX and GNU/Linux, particulary they helped us to use GNU/Linux Ubuntu. It captured my attention, at the begin, I must confess, because it was free of charge. Being free I would not have to be around worried about the licenses of MS Windows. Later, I learned about its other and even bigger advantages like the virtually nonexistence of virus, its stability, the freedom, security and that it is friendly with the scientific computing.
I used Ubuntu for about a year and I explored until I found that GNU/Linux Debian promised not to have some of the errors Ubuntu had. Even when I was a bit scared about the comments the people made over this system, that it was not friendly and even it was a little rude, I decided to install it.
Since I installed Debian and even before I was forced to make some googling for each time I had an issue, of course, not before of commit a number of errors that tends to infinity. Over time I gathered information that obviously did not make me an expert but allowed me to have some useful bases.
The transition from Windows to GNU/Linux was not trivial and much less from Ubunt to Debian. Certainly it wasn't like do a Nobel Prize winning job but it was a hard one because of the invested time on googling and in understand.
My other but principal passion is astronomy. During the high school I took an elective subject. On it I was able to use a reflector telescope with a Dobson mounting. Later, I got into the Science Department to study physics and astrophysics. During my time in the carreer I have done popularization of astronomy in Nibiru, an Astronomical Sociecty of Popularization of Science and I have worked a bit on research. Now I'm coauthor in some refereed papers. Besides I have attended to summer schools and have been instructor in seven editions of an observational astronomy school. I try to make some astrophotography not just on the working sessions I do in the National Astronomic Observatory of Tonantzintla, Puebla. This is of the stuff I have enjoyed the most, being in the observatory at Puebla and in the one at San Pedro Martir, Baja California.
Throughtout all this time I made some stuff that are more useful being public that stored in my computer. This is part of the reason of the existence of this webpage.
In this website two of my biggest pleasures join together. Astronomy and computing. Its name from there: AstroBits.
I really hope you enjoy it.
César Villarreal