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-# Ben Morrison runs BSD +Hi everyone! I'm a geek from the US. -I'm a geek from [Acadiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadiana) who, -instead of growing up to be a commercial fisherman or work at an oil -refinery, opted to partake in a more digital future. - Initially, my introduction to this world was Red Hat Linux 7.0 around -the summer of 2000. I loved it. After distro-hopping through Slackware, -Debian, and Gentoo, I settled on an early release of Arch Linux around -2003. +the summer of 2000. I loved it. After distro-hopping through +Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo, I settled on an early release of Arch +Linux around 2003. I continued to stay in the Linux world for many years, until a bit after -the systemd change-over. Around 2013, I made the jump to [OpenBSD] after -having been fascinated by it for many years. It always seemed like the -mythical "perfect UNIX-like OS" to me. The saying is "Don't meet your -heroes", but in this case, it was wonderful. +the systemd change-over. Around 2013, I made the jump to OpenBSD after +having been fascinated by it for many years. -I quickly dove in and felt at home in the OpenBSD world. Later, I would +I quickly dove in and felt at home in the OpenBSD world. Later, I would opt to use FreeBSD on my laptop for more bleeding-edge software and slightly better desktop performance, but OpenBSD still has a place in my heart. In November 2018, after hanging around this strange, but cozy, place called the "Tildeverse," where retro computing and shell accounts are -all the rage, I realized there were no major BSD options. That's when I -decided to open up [tilde institute](https://tilde.institute) as the -home of OpenBSD in our corner of the internet. It's even been featured -on the BSD Now podcast! Episode 294 plugs the project. If social UNIX is -your thing, come join us! We hang out on IRC, slap together various -coding projects, and have a lot of fun doing it all. +all the rage, I realized there were no major BSD options. That's when I +decided to open up [tilde.institute](https://tilde.institute) as the +home of OpenBSD in our corner of the internet. It's even been featured +on the *BSD Now* podcast! Episode 294 plugs the project. If social +UNIX is your thing, come join us! We hang out on IRC, slap together +various coding projects, and have a lot of fun doing it all. Keep running BSD, everyone! -Ben Morrison
-[keybase.io/benmorrison](https://keybase.io/benmorrison)
-[gbmor.dev](https://gbmor.dev) +[Ben Morrison](https://gbmor.dev) -_[26 Aug 2019](/raw/people/benmorrison.md)_ - -[FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/ -[OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/ +_[17 Jul 2020](/raw/people/benmorrison.md)_