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<div class="puffies" aria-hidden="true">🐡🐡🐡</div>
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<h2>OpenBSD user Interview</h2>
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<p>A new section for the webzine, we let our readers talk about their OpenBSD experience and usage!</p>
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<p><strong>Solène Rapenne</strong>: Hi Xavier, could you introduce yourself for our readers?</p>
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<p><strong>Xavier Cartron</strong>: Hello!
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My name is Xavier Cartron, but online I usually refer as "prx". My ID
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card says I'm 33 years old, but still a too-enthusiast kid in my head.
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I live in France near Nantes where I teach Physics and Chemistry. So, not exactly
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close to computing, but I always enjoyed playing with such devices. It
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all began when my family bought a computer when I was about 3 years
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old, probably because my mother wished to become a developer when she
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was young. I discovered DOS, Prince of Persia and drawing ugly faces
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with Windows 3.1 Paint. I spent too many times on video games and
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experimenting cool stuff in hidden files.</p>
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<p><strong>Solène Rapenne</strong>: when did you first try OpenBSD? What were your feelings about it?</p>
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<p><strong>Xavier Cartron</strong>: Long story short, one gave me a Linux Live CD when I was a student,
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probably in 2008.
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Then began too many dual boots, installs and distro discovery. I enjoyed
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trying as many distros as possible, but finally stuck with debian for
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years.
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When trying distro, I tried FreeBSD and OpenBSD, however my network
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hardware wasn't supported at this time, or I probably didn't read FAQ
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properly. Youth... But I enjoyed the clean and efficient feeling.
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In the meantime, I enjoyed self-hosting my website, mails and stuff in
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my student apartment.
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A couple of years later, my hard drive crashed. Bored by debian's
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weight, I tried to switch my
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server on something different. I heard about OpenBSD's stability.
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In an afternoon, I had reconfigured my server : OpenBSD is actually
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simpler.
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Then I experienced efforts around security and I felt enchanted.</p>
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<p><strong>Solène Rapenne</strong>: Why are you using OpenBSD? What for?</p>
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<p><strong>Xavier Cartron</strong>: I currently use OpenBSD for... well, everything.
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It's running on my laptop I bring at work to display lessons : ffplay
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plays in a window stacked on a side by dwm whats is shown on the wall,
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so I can talk and interact with my students while writing on the board
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and still see theirs faces.
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It's on living room computer to play movies. When I plug a usb stick,
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all files are automatically played by mpv thanks to hotplugd.
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It's on my wife's computer.
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It's on my server to host my website, mails, backup, gemini, xmpp, and
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actually this webzine :)
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When I find time, I play on my other computer nethack, wesnoth,
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xonotic...
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I also enjoy learning and writing C, and OpenBSD is perfect with all
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manpages and included libraries. I learned a lot, thanks to style(9) !
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OpenBSD is well documented, tunable with simplicity. I have a system
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configured to fit exactly my needs. Bonus : I have met amazing people
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in OpenBSD's community, some of them are now friends. That's some of
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the reasons I enjoy using OpenBSD.</p>
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<hr />
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<p><strong>Solène Rapenne</strong>: Would you like to share something to the OpenBSD or webzine team?</p>
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<p><strong>Xavier Cartron</strong>: Actually yes, I'd like to tell about a project I write for years now.
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Since I enjoyed self-hosting on my spare time, without learning this at
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school, I challenged myself to help others doing so.
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I wrote a manual in French first, and recently finished translating it
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in English. I always need reviews to improve it. It is hosted at
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<a href="https://si3t.ch/ah/">https://si3t.ch/ah/</a>.
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I probably spoke too much, that's because of the enthusiast-kid inside.
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Thank you for reading.</p>
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<p><strong>Solène Rapenne</strong>: Thank you very much Xavier for answering to my questions. It's always cool to meet people not working in IT who are using open source operating systems!</p>
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