Greg Kroah-HartmanInterview
Linux kernel developer
Adapted from Greg Kroah-Hartman's interview on Uses This, published 15 November 2012. 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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My laptop is a MacBook Pro Retina.
For a phone I have a Galaxy Nexus.
Communication
Productivity
On my laptop I've converted over to using the i3 window manager, on top of the GNOME 3 session handling logic.
Browser
Coding & Development
I also have a few virtual and physical servers floating around the cloud that I use for email, git, and backup services.
Storage
I use offlineimap for syncing email around on all of the different systems I use.
Other
On the desktop I am running the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution (a rolling version of openSUSE that provides the latest stable packages) as I'm the one responsible for that distribution.
I run Gentoo Linux on my servers and my build machine.
I am trying out Arch Linux on my MacBook as I wanted to see how that distro was due to hearing good things about it.
To send email I rely on msmtp to be able to handle queueing of emails when I do not have any connectivity (like on airplanes).
git for source code control in dealing with Linux kernel patches as well as other more mundane stuff (email archiving, configuration files, etc.) I use quilt on top of git for handling the Linux kernel stable patch set as the workflow there does not lend itself to a pure git environment.
For desktop environment, on my workstation, I use GNOME 3, despite me complaining about it all the time.