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David Foerster
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I'm a Computer Science (M. Sc.) student at Humboldt University Berlin with a B. Sc. in IT Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute (Potsdam).

I've been using Linux since 2005, and administrate my own (and two family members') Ubuntu setups since 2009.

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