"About" is a beautiful word, especially for narcissists like me. It's typical of nerds — we all carry a grand idea of ourselves. I'll say it sincerely: I am fiercely self-critical, and before writing this page I thought and rethought for months. I may not be a great one — but I don't see giants around me.

This is where I should tell you about myself, my story, who I am, what I do. I have no intention of doing it. I don't want to reveal my identity publicly, and I absolutely don't want to be a public figure. I believe in freedom, and in respect for one's own identity, in this global village of social media and personal data turned into merchandise. Yes — we have forgotten who we are. I believe we sold ourselves to this world, to a world that doesn't exist: digital is not life, it's only a part of it.

But I can tell you where I come from. Odyssey is an apolitical, global project — yet it has deep roots in one of the most ancient places of Western civilization, right where Scylla and Charybdis meet, where Odysseus began his adventure: Calabria. Its dry summer torrents, the smell of rosemary in your nostrils, summers with skies as immense as a grandmother's kiss, evenings spent drinking wine and having fun. That's who I am, and that's who we are — because we were, we are, and we will be.

After all this preamble, why I created Odyssey — and I'll close quickly, because I've said it elsewhere: I saw a void. The distributions without systemd, the ones closest to the Unix philosophy, were missing a modern, elegant, professional, user-friendly vision. That's why this distribution exists.

About my human, cultural, intellectual and technical competence: did you download the ISO? Did you try it? I made it. I don't think I'm a common man — and I don't want to sound elitist, but let me make things clear, to avoid any misunderstanding: I speak five languages, plus Greek and Latin. And yet I promise you this: the most intelligent, sharpest people I have met in my life were Calabrian farmers who couldn't even write — and I truly believe it. But don't think for a second that I need an LLM to write the pages of my own site, or to build it. I use AI the way I use a calculator or a computer: a useful tool for intelligent people like me. It's the ignorant who produce AI slop — and neither I nor Odyssey are that! I found it disturbing to have to change all the text of this site because, to many, it read as LLM-generated. Yes, I admit it: I had given it a corporate, very marketing-oriented tone. But what shocked me was the total ignorance of people who, standing in front of a human text, needed three seconds to call it AI. Are you so used to mediocrity that everything that shines is now AI... Still, being a sharp person, I understood. I listen to everyone — even the monkeys at the zoo. So I rewrote everything. Let's move on, and talk about the people I found in this adventure before even reaching a release candidate.

Adrian, beta tester and keeper of the bug tracker. And the first Argonauts — people who chose to support this project without knowing me, because they believe in certain values and because they use Odyssey. Jessica and Isaac are my first Argonauts, and I want to thank them publicly, so that it stays written here, in memory, for the times to come. I believe others will join them.

Odyssey is not just a distro. It's a vision — of technology, of Linux, of its users. As for the rest: I've already said a lot, for an about page.

unix for human beings.