Colin PercivalInterview
Developer, security officer (FreeBSD)
Adapted from Colin Percival's interview on Uses This, published 27 June 2010. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I do all of my work from a Dell XPS M1530 laptop -- Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz) CPU, 3 GB of RAM, 250 GB hard drive.
I use an HTC Dream (aka G1) phone.
Communication
I use Thunderbird 2.0 for email -- yes, I still download all of my email to my laptop.
Browser
Coding & Development
Storage
I'm a FreeBSD developer since 2004, the FreeBSD Security Officer since 2005, and since 2006 I've been working on the Tarsnap online backup system (which launched in 2008).