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from: Roman Zolotarev <hi@romanzolotarev.com>
date: Mon Aug 09 08:50:40 2021 UTC

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 <p>
 Want to submit your BSD story, a link to an upcoming conference, found RunBSD logo in a wild?<br>
 Please reach Roman via <a
-href="https://twitter.com/romanzolotarev">Twitter</a>, <a
-href="https://bsd.network/@romanzolotarev">Mastodon</a>, or <a
-href="mailto:hi@romanzolotarev.com?subject=RunBSD">email</a>.</p>
+href="https://twitter.com/romanzolotarev">Twitter</a> or <a
+href="mailto:hi@romanzolotarev.com?subject=i%20run%20bsd">email</a>.</p>
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 <h1>Stories</h1>
 
+<a title="Kr0m 7 Aug 2021" href="/people/kr0m.html"><img src="/people/kr0m.jpeg" class="w3"></a>
 <a title="Riccardo 14 Apr 2020" href="/people/riccardo.html"><img src="/people/riccardo.jpeg" class="w3"></a>
 <a title="Ian Darwin 11 Jan 2020" href="/people/ian.html"><img src="/people/ian.jpeg" class="w3"></a>
 <a title="Andreas Drewke 26 Dec 2019" href="/people/andreasdr.html"><img src="/people/andreasdr.jpeg" class="w3"></a>
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+<p><a href="/" alt="avatar" title="home page"><img src="kr0m.jpeg" class="w3"></a></p>
+
+# Kr0m runs BSD
+
+My name is Juan José Ivars Poquet (aka kr0m), my first computer contact
+was in 1998, my cousin got a Compaq pentium I where he had Windows 95
+installed, my first thought was that it was so strange to have to wait
+long load times to start a demo of MDK game. My second touch was a 486
+where a friend and me were playing some sort of spaceship simulator, the
+computers didnt impressed me yet.
+
+Finally at age of 15 we had the family PC, it was a pentium I with
+windows 98 loaded, I spent a lot of hours poking around regedit and
+breaking things. One day I went to my favourite bookshop and saw a
+little book, it was named: "cracking", I didn't know what it was about
+but I bought it anyway, it was the begining of another era, that book
+explained me that software can be modified and it can behave like we
+want even without the source code, in the end all binaries are ASM
+instrucctions that can be patched. Then I bought the other books of
+@rroba, "Hackers", "Linux" and "Virus" it were exciting times.
+
+At age of 16 I finally had my own computer, I could install the OS that
+I deserve and make all kind of tests, it was a pentium IV an expensive
+machine in that times. The first night I burned my monitor installing
+RedHat with the wrong refresh rate, fortunately I could exchange without
+costs covered by the warranty, I finally installed Mandrake because it
+autoconfigured my monitor for me. One year later I got Internet throught
+a 56K modem, pitifully it was a softmodem so I only used it with my
+Win2k, I installed an RPM driver but it was capped to a fraction of the
+modem speed. In the institute we started to code in VisualBasic using
+Microsoft Office macros, I signed up for a Visual Basic course in an
+academy near my house, it was amazing, I could control my pc and do what
+I want the way I want.
+
+My next step was to get into computer science degree, there I knewn some
+friends that talked to me about Polinux, a comunnity of Linux
+enthusiats, I heared about Gentoo and Debian, in my third year I finally
+got Internet access and it was revolutionary a flood of information
+available to me. I decided to install Gentoo, stage1 of course and I
+enjoyed a lot of, I learned in that years more than in the last 5 years,
+Gentoo+Internet the perfect combination. I learned a lot of Linux
+internals, kernel compilation, boot process, user and groups
+administration, permissions and all kind of other things. One of my
+friends talked me about FreeBSD but I was too much busy with my Gentoo
+system to start learning another OS. For exploring something diferent I
+took advantage of my student position asking to Sun for a Solaris copy,
+all for free, I tested in a VirtualBox VM but I didnt continue
+investigating it.
+
+When I finished my studies I worked with Cisco Systems and I decided to
+get CCNA/CCNA-SEC I learned a lot of about networking, I was interested
+in security too so I started using Backtrack and finally I installed
+[OpenBSD] in my laptop but the wifi didnt worked so I reverted to Debian.
+Then I changed to a PBX administrator job, we used Debian as base system
+and Asterisk as soft-PBX, I learned the basics of SIP protocol that was
+useful for my next job where I changed job to a Telco company that was
+using Gentoo and Kamailio. My last years I have been working with
+Gentoo/Ubuntu systems, deep learning of Gentoo portage system introduced
+me to [FreeBSD], and one work friend encouraged me to start testing it, I
+started reading the excellent handbook and I was hooked.
+
+I installed it on my home pc and home server and I used it every day, I
+was impressed with the ease of use, organization, functionality, man
+pages documentation, rock solid stability and the simplicity of RC
+system. I liked very much the idea that FreeBSD is the complete
+operating system, everything comes from one source, in that way all the
+system remains consistent between updates. Separating User programs from
+base operating system files is magnificent idea to keep base system
+clear over the time. Later I discovered the FreeBSD community, I
+immediately realized that its heavy technically prepared, when anybody
+answer your questions they know what they are talking about.
+
+Since I started using FreeBSD I am so happy and I have never looked
+back.
+
+What I appreciate the most of FreeBSD system is RTFM/KISS/UNIX
+philosophy, ZFS, Jails, BootEnvironments, the whole system is carefully
+planned and consistent, the project follows standards, not hypes and
+quality is considered more important than quick and dirty hacks to get
+some fancy feature in.
+
+BTW if you want to contact me you can find me at:
+[alfaexploit.com](https://alfaexploit.com)
+
+_[7 Aug 2021](/raw/people/kr0m.md)_
+
+[FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/
+[OpenBSD]: https://www.openbsd.org/
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