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user:grahamperrin [2025/05/10 01:57] – Switching away from FreeBSD, to Linux. grahamperrinuser:grahamperrin [2026/05/15 10:48] (current) – Wayback Machine, since I removed myself from FreeBSD wiki. grahamperrin
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 ====== Graham Perrin (grahamperrin) ====== ====== Graham Perrin (grahamperrin) ======
  
-Until recently, I had [[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle. Bill was maybe nineteen years old when I said goodbye to him on 31st December 2024. My first two cats were named Cat, one of them lived happily until the age of twenty-one.+Until new year's eve 2024, I had [[https://web.archive.org/web/20250116010746/https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin|two cats]] – Bill and Pickle. Bill was maybe nineteen years old when I said goodbye to him on 31st December 2024. My first two cats were named Cat, one of them lived happily until the age of twenty-one.
  
 Crushingly dull obligatory tech history follows. Former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 //Yosemite// drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 //Mavericks// to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120923043805/http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html|9.0 on a PowerPC iMac]] with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. Crushingly dull obligatory tech history follows. Former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 //Yosemite// drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 //Mavericks// to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120923043805/http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html|9.0 on a PowerPC iMac]] with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows.
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   * **KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT**  since around 2015   * **KDE Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT**  since around 2015
-  * switching away from FreeBSD, to Linux – **Ubuntu 25.04 for root-on-OpenZFS, with Plasma**  (not GNOME). +  * **Kubuntu**  since mid-2025.
 I try to take a conscientious approach to security issues. CVD, responsible disclosure, and all that. [[https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0014|CVE-2009-0014]] et cetera. I try to take a conscientious approach to security issues. CVD, responsible disclosure, and all that. [[https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0014|CVE-2009-0014]] et cetera.
  
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 I'm dyslexic, reportedly. It probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story. I'm dyslexic, reportedly. It probably doesn't show in my writing. Long story.
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-I became a [[https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#2022-06-01:1|FreeBSD committer in June 2022]], resigned after thirteen months. 13, unlucky for some. [[https://freshbsd.org/freebsd?committer[]=Graham+Perrin+(grahamperrin)|162 commits across three trees]] (137 ''doc''  + 5 ''ports''  + 20 ''src''). 
  
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