Garrett Cooper Uses BSD

1. Who are you and what do you do?

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! 


2. What hardware are you using? 

 Several platforms: 
A: 4 year old Macbook (I use it mostly for iTunes and syncing with my iPod/iPhone :P) (starr). 
B: A couple custom built Xeon workstations (bayonetta, fallout, streetfighter). 
C: An ASUS Netbook (akai-ntbk). 
D: An Atom machine as a router (toaster). 
E: A couple supermicro servers. 


3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop? 

FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 


4. What software do you use the most? 

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. 


5.What hardware is your main system on? 

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. 


6. What is your dream setup? 

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 :). 
B: A dedicated server where I can house my files using ZFS28+. 
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. 


7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?

John Hixson Uses BSD

1. Who are you and what do you do? 

I am John Hixson and I work for iXsystems. I mostly work on FreeNAS these days but occasionally at FreeBSD if necessary.


2. What hardware are you using?

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. 


3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop? 

I am currently running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT.


4. What software do you use the most?

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.


5.What hardware is your main system on?

My main system is my Lenovo laptop. It has 4GB of ram, an Intel i7 processor and NVidia NVS 3100M video card.


6. What is your dream setup?

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!


7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?

Dru Lavigne Uses BSD

1. Who are you and what do you do?

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.


2. What hardware are you using?

On a daily basis, quite a bit. Aside from my main desktop, I'm currently using:

* 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

* 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

* a Mac Mini running Lion that is used for testing purposes

* a Titan Mini running the latest snapshot of FreeNAS 8 which is used for testing purposes

* an older HP mini-server running FreeBSD 8.2 which is used for storing backups

* a bunch of networking equipment, a KVM switch, and some adapters so that the headless systems can be viewed on a 32" TV

3. What OS are you running on your main desktop/laptop?

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.

4. What software do you use the most?

On a daily basis: Firefox, pidgin, skype, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, gimp, Calibre, vi, Okular, and ksnapshot.

5.What hardware is your main system on?

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.

6. What is your dream setup?

A rack with everything neatly tied together instead of scattered about my main working area.

7. Care to share a screenshot of your desktop?

Starting out

This site has evolved from seeing sites like http://usesthis.com , and http://www.mylinuxrig.com/. 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.

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.

Please leave suggestions in the comments, and feel free to share opinions.