tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79845284429185981272024-03-05T03:58:47.296-05:00Using BSDSetups, Rigs, and Text about BSDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-59726768706185276122011-09-24T20:07:00.001-04:002011-09-24T22:38:36.544-04:00Garrett Cooper Uses BSD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Who are you and what do you do?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My name is Garrett Cooper. I've been a FreeBSD user since 2002 (back
in the 5.2 days) and contributor for a few years (docs, ports, src). I
was most recently working at Cisco IronPort, but I now currently work
with iXsystems on the FreeNAS/TrueNAS team! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Several platforms: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A: 4 year old Macbook (I use it mostly for iTunes and syncing with my
iPod/iPhone :P) (starr). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">B: A couple custom built Xeon workstations (bayonetta, fallout, streetfighter). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">C: An ASUS Netbook (akai-ntbk). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">D: An Atom machine as a router (toaster). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">E: A couple supermicro servers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I use alpine as my mail client; audacious as my music player; firefox
as my browser; irssi as my IRC client; python and sh for scripting
fun; transmission for torrent downloading; vim as my editor;
virtualbox for running VMs; and vlc as my video player. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My main system "bayonetta" has a 3TB of storage (1 unRAIDed disk, 2TB
RAID10 storage) with an LSI 8704ELP card, a SB Audigy 2 soundcard, and
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A: A workstation hooked up to multiple 24"+ displays (someday I'll
have to upgrade to 30" when one of my monitors dies :D..), but has
enough juice to run a few 64-bit VMs and do some builds, and some of
the trimmings I showed above :). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">B: A dedicated server where I can house my files using ZFS28+. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">C: A laptop that suspends and resumes (I have this working on my
Netbook, but it could be polished up a bit more with the default OS
settings) with all of the vendor specific buttons (display brightness,
wifi toggle, etc) working. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-43752740153414413122011-09-23T14:56:00.001-04:002011-09-23T14:57:13.005-04:00John Hixson Uses BSD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Who are you and what do you do? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am John Hixson and I work for iXsystems. I mostly work on FreeNAS
these days but occasionally at FreeBSD if necessary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most of my work is done on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410. I have a plethora of
old hardware of various architectures that I will pull out to test and
try things on. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am currently running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I use fluxbox for my window manager. My desktop is usually just filled
with Eterm's. On a daily basis I use Eterm, vi, firefox, mutt, BitchX
and pianobar. That's about it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My main system is my Lenovo laptop. It has 4GB of ram, an Intel i7
processor and NVidia NVS 3100M video card.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My "dream" setup is to have a FreeBSD laptop that works like a Apple
laptop. You know, suspend and resume, long battery life, etc. Then we
can grab all the FreeBSD folks you see everywhere with Apple laptops
back. Muhahahha!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at ixsystems. I'm a FreeBSD source and ports
committer, system administrator for the PC-BSD project and project manager for
FreeNAS.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My "desktop" is a Lenovo Thinkpad T510, also at my desk is a Thinkpad T500.
My main build server is a dual Xeon 5550 with 48 GB of RAM and 9 1TB SAS
drives in hardware RAID 6. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">PC-BSD 9.0-BETA2 </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Firefox, Thunderbird, Xchat, Kopete, Konsole, Vim, Subversion, VirtualBox</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A T510 lenovo laptop</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Surrounded by hardware, my "desktop" is just a thing that logs into very fast
machines. I guess I'd want a dual westmere with 192 gigs of RAM, a Fusion-I/O
SLC, a bunch of 15K SAS drives, and a 30" LCD monitor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My name is Dru Lavigne. Currently I'm the Community Manager for the PC-BSD Project. I tend to spend most of my working day beta testing and writing documentation for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">On a daily basis, quite a bit. Aside from my main desktop, I'm currently using:</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* a 64-bit Acer Aspire dual booting Windows 7 and whatever desktop of PC-BSD's latest snapshot I'm currently testing; this system tends to be reinstalled several dozen times in a week</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* 2 or 3 32-bit Thinkpads from the T-series that I use for testing various operating systems; they tend to get reinstalled several thousand times over their lifetime</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* a Mac Mini running Lion that is used for testing purposes</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* a Titan Mini running the latest snapshot of FreeNAS 8 which is used for testing purposes</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* an older HP mini-server running FreeBSD 8.2 which is used for storing backups</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span">* a bunch of networking equipment, a KVM switch, and some adapters so that the headless systems can be viewed on a 32" TV</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My main desktop is a ThinkPad Edge dual booting Windows 7 and a heavily customized version of PC-BSD 8.2. 99% of the time I'm booted into PC-BSD but occasionally boot into Windows to test something or grab a screenshot for documentation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">On a daily basis: Firefox, pidgin, skype, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, gimp, Calibre, vi, Okular, and ksnapshot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ThinkPad Edge. I've been using ThinkPads as my main system since 2004 and have a nice collection of semi-retired systems that get called upon when I need another testing system in my network.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">A rack with everything neatly tied together instead of scattered about my main working area.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-82439061985814646602011-09-22T08:21:00.002-04:002011-09-22T09:05:36.045-04:00Matt Olander Uses BSD<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Who are you and what do you do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My name is Matt Olander. I'm the co-founder and Chief Technology </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Officer at iXsystems, Inc. In addition to the typical duties of a CTO </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">at a high-tech firm in Silicon Valley, I'm also a member of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">FreeBSD Project, where I assist with public relations, marketing, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">funding code development. Besides funding and managing various FreeBSD </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">development projects, iXsystems is the primary sponsor for both the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">PC-BSD Project, our desktop endeavor, and FreeNAS, the open-source </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">storage platform based on FreeBSD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">What hardware am I not using would be an easier question to answer. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Since our primary business is manufacturing and integrating servers </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and storage for many industries including today's modern Web 2.0 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">startups, we see all kinds of hardware pass through the doors here, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">which I am privileged to get to play with ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">PC-BSD 8.x on most of my rigs and PC-BSD 9 Beta 1 and 1.5 in a couple of VMs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I definitely depend on a web browser day-to-day. It's sometimes </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Firefox and sometimes Opera with Meebo open for IMs, Gmail, some news </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">sites, etc.. In addition, I have a console open most of the day as </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">well where I have a mutt mail client running and irssii for IRC. At </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">work, we rely on OpenOffice for all of our internal documents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've got an Intel Sandybridge workstation at iX in my office running </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">PC-BSD. We've also got a lounge with another Sandybridge workstation </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">connected to a 52" plasma screen TV where I frequently work from a </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">recliner with a wireless keyboard and mouse. That system is also </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">running PC-BSD and after work, I often use it to watch some shows on </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hulu or surf the web.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My primary laptop is an older Lenovo IdeaPad U110 with a Core2Duo </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">running PC-BSD 8. It's small and light which makes it ideal for </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">travel. I've also got a Macbook Pro that I use to run various virtual </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">machines during release time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have to say that I'm pretty close to having it at work. For while, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I had dual Nvidia cards connected to 3 LCD's on my workstation. The </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">only way that I could imagine it getting better is with a zero-gravity </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">chair and a suspended monitor setup ;)</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-38744525466805336082011-09-21T15:54:00.000-04:002011-09-22T12:18:40.916-04:00Pau Amma Uses BSD (sort of)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Who are you and what do you do?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm Pau Amma. I do lots of things, including documenting and translating
documentation, translating other semi-random stuff, some programming, lots
of bad puns, and learning Tagalog. Most of the above (including the puns)
has been related to <a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=1%22%3EDreamwidth">Dreamwidth</a> lately. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Main machine is currently an EEE PC 1005P. I also have an old
Opteron-based tower (custom-built) with FreeBSD on it, that's been turned
off for most of the past 2 years, and probably was semi-obsolete then. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Not BSD, unfortunately. I'm planning to as soon as PCBSD supports my
graphics controller chip. (Maybe in early 2012?) Meanwhile, I have Xubuntu
on it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most?
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Firefox, ssh, vi, Mercurial, perl, Open Office, GIMP, Inkscape.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on?
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ASUS EEE PC 1005P.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup? </span><br />
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One I could have extended punwars with.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-31019831312857545072011-09-20T14:57:00.000-04:002011-09-22T12:18:05.723-04:00Kris Moore Uses BSD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Who are you and what do you do?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm the founder and lead developer of the PC-BSD desktop operating system. Currently that involves a lot of work with C++ / QT / Shell and occasionally some other languages for fun. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What hardware are you using?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have many systems here, from a core i7, down to some Athlon X2's and several laptops to round things out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">PC-BSD of course! Currently running the new 9.0-BETA2</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. What software do you use the most?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Firefox, Thunderbird, vi, konversation, among others. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5.What hardware is your main system on?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A lot of my development takes place on a AMD Athlon 2 X2 440 system, with dual-monitors running an NVIDIA 8800GTS. In addition I have a nice little Asus EEE netbook that I do development on as well. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. What is your dream setup?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well for my work what I have runs great, but I do enjoy some PC gaming which is a bit more power hungry. In that case a nice Phenom II X6 1100T would be nice, along with a NVIDIA GTX 580 and 16GB of ram. And while I'm dreaming some SSD's would go nicely with that :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7984528442918598127.post-67456928943511991232011-09-20T12:21:00.000-04:002011-09-20T12:21:13.897-04:00Starting outThis site has evolved from seeing sites like <a href="http://usesthis.com/">http://usesthis.com</a> , and <a href="http://www.mylinuxrig.com/">http://www.mylinuxrig.com/</a>. While they do cover a few BSD related developers and what they use, publication about what key people in the BSD community is largely unknown. <br />
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This blog will bring to light some of the key developers in the BSD community and what they use. Largely this started with my search for a good laptop that will run PC-BSD. I hope this helps shed some light for people so they may enjoy what some of their favorite developers use. <br />
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Please leave suggestions in the comments, and feel free to share opinions. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0