Start work on Free Software project
- I had a job in a small ISP as system administrator for Linux servers
- The Internet started to be very popular in Taiwan
- I started to use GNU/Linux at work around 1998.
- The first Chinese localization project on GNU/Linux called CLE (Chinese Linux Extension).
- I was luckily joined the CLE project to help packaging and merged all the patches and packages into the Mandrake distro around 2000~2001.
- I met Anthony Fok during this time on a mailing list, we exchanged ideas and patches for the Debian Chinese project.
- I became root for many local community servers in Taiwan
- I got health problem around 2000, doctor said I probably cannot live after my 30th birthday.
- I stopped my job and make a wish to do something useful for community
- I went to the UK for my cousin's wedding