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+ +# Andreas Drewke runs BSD + +Hi, I am Andreas Drewke (andreasdr) from Berlin/Germany and a happy BSD +user. My story is not like straight ahead maybe but still very BSD +related. + +My first contact with BSD was in 2004 I guess, since I discovered NetBSD +at this time, after playing around with Linux and BeOS. It was +approximatly the 2.0 release. I loved its performance, the clean design +in many terms, and the userland/cli tools. Also the geekyness. I did +not know about [OpenBSD] but [FreeBSD]. However I was disgusted by +FreeBSDs installer this time. + +I played around with NetBSD/macppc and ended up using NetBSD/i386 on my +Lenovo R40 laptop at work. I had a contract which involved software +development with JAVA mainly and some CSS/HTML and Lotus Notes/Domino :D +I even had Lotus Notes/Domino via Wine running on this laptop. It was a +lot of fun! Somewhere I have a evidence screenshot :D I ran this setup +for 2 years until my NetBSD got broken. + +Later on I did a 3 years pause regarding software development. + +When coming back I bought a MacBook Pro with MacOS X which is also +similar to BSD. I was tired of open source operating systems that +needed too much focus on fixing and setting up things instead of just +getting work done. I still use a MacBook Pro for my jobs from time to +time, but came back to BSD in 2017. This time it was FreeBSD. + +Because then I got a very fast AMD Ryzen based machine and got my +feeling back of a real workstation PC that costs a quarter of a MacBook +Pro and outperform MacOSX significantly, I guess mainly due to better +hardware. FreeBSD is my current OS of choice. Large portions of my 3D +engine and our current game I am working on, were developed while using +FreeBSD. Nobody believes it maybe, but I can tell you that FreeBSD is +faster than Linux and a lot faster than Windows 10 if it comes to giving +CPU cycles to its processes or maybe also file system and disc IO. +Believe me I have every of those OS on my machine on equal drives :DDD + +FreeBSD only took like 3 hours to set it up for me and then it just +works. One time I did manage to destroy it, but this was after 1+ years +of usage. + +Unfortunatly I can not check NetBSD currently or OpenBSD as the first +lacks 3D hardware acceleration for current graphic cards and the second +has still issues with AMDGPU driver. However FreeBSD + NVIDIA first and +later AMDGPU served me real, real great. I am in love. For about 2 +years now. <3 <3 <3 + +I could probably tell more, but thats it for now. + +Oh btw. I would love to know some more BSD people (in Berlin). Anyone +wants to start a Berlin BSD user group? + +[drewke.net](http://drewke.net) + +_[2019-12-26](/raw/people/andreasdr.md)_ + +[FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/ +[OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/ blob - 770f329a08f9ce5fdb1d957317ba0b3f31e9f156 blob + fdcaf64f0ee950df6ac9bb1bca206bd586203d99 --- people/index.html +++ people/index.html @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ with your display name and avatar.

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