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+ +# Solene runs BSD + +Hi, I'm Solene, sysadmin hacking on [OpenBSD] for fun as a hobby. + +I discovered Linux thanks to a school friend who bought a magazine +with Slackware CDs set and installation instructions. We tried it +together on an old computer at home and I just liked having something +different on the computer, even if I had no idea about what to do +with it. + +My curiosity has grown and once we got an unlimited internet access +at home, I discovered there were others linux systems, and some had +nice GUI for newbies like me, I'm thinking about Mandrake linux and +its graphical installer and administration GUI. + +I think I was 12 years old at this time. I had no family member +or friends in IT and I was in a small city, so I had no one to meet +to extend my knowledge. I'm a slow learner and I need to practice +and do by myself to understand, it's not efficient and fast but I'm +pretty happy when I see how far I went since! + +Over the years, I consolidated my knowledge, discovering new linux +distributions, discovering what a protocol or a daemon are. Fun +fact, I think I felt into IT due to the movie "The Big Lebowski", +I liked that video so much I wanted to host my very own forum about +the movie, using a phpbb forum and hosting it at home. This made +me learn about apache, php and mysql, public IP, TCP ports and NAT, +then I realized it was only plumber work. + +I went to university into a programming training as there was no +sysadmin degree. At this time, I was a regular OpenSolaris and +FreeBSD user. I really enjoyed using OpenSolaris, it was my main +OS for years. But once it was killed by Oracle, I did slide slowly +to FreeBSD. As I was curious, I was often trying others BSD and my +laptops were shifting systems every week! + +After university I succeeded at the BSD Certificate Associate exam. +I remember having to drive 800km from home to attend the exam! I +got my first job in 2011 in a small IT company, where I still work. +I migrated servers from Linux to FreeBSD then I acquired a lot of +experience about "real world" issues and solutions thanks to my +colleague. Over the years, I've been more and more disappointed by +FreeBSD choices and quality, my laptop moved to OpenBSD around +release 5.9 and I've been using it daily since that time. + +OpenBSD was working on my laptop, everything worked out of the box +and there was no required tweaks like on FreeBSD. As I was using +OpenBSD daily, I came to report issues I found on -current and I +was trying ports diff on my computer. + +I only enjoy writing code from time to time and I mostly write +common lisp code or awk scripts. I wasn't really able to contribute +to base code with those skills, but I was able to apply diffs, +compile and report if it was working or not. After some time, I've +been invited to a hackathon by jca@ and then I was invited as a +developer which made me really happy and thankful. + +As an OpenBSD developer, I have been mostly working on ports at +first, then I have learned about how man page are written. This +made me contribute to OpenBSD documentation and I really enjoy it. +I've been quite active on OpenBSD IRC channel, I've seen people +being clueless due to missing explanations here and there, so I've +did my best to enhance documentation to make it easier to understand +to everyone. Lately, I've resurrected stable binary packages (which +disappeared around OpenBSD 4.x I think) and I am very happy about +this. + +I can't say I'm a very active developer but I always contribute to +make OpenBSD better for everyone and that make me happy. If I have +no fun working on something, I just don't work on that thing. Hacking +on OpenBSD is often fun especially when it make other people happy. + +Now I use OpenBSD as much as I can, my various computers are home +use it and my servers too. For me, it's the only operating system +that really care about quality and sanity over the so called "user +experience", I'm especially thinking about recents defaults like +disabling microphone, disabling hyperthreading or webcam device +restricted to root. + +[@solene](https://bsd.network/@solene)
+[dataswamp.org/~solene](https://dataswamp.org/~solene/) + +_[21 Nov 2019](/raw/people/solene.md)_ + +[OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/