Hi, I’m Charles Childers.

I’m a programmer writing in Forth, assembly, C, and a variety of other languages. I mainly use OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

My best known programs are RetroForth and Konilo. I also write small virtual machines, and a variety of small, personal computing tools.

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Cake day: November 14th, 2023
  • crc@blendit.bsd.cafetoBlendIT BSD Cafe - All the BSDs@blendit.bsd.cafe•How/when did your experience with BSD systems begin?
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    1 year ago

    I started using FreeBSD in 2002, so it’d have been 4.6 or 4.7. I maintained using FreeBSD on my personal system until switching to macOS in 2009 (Snow Leopard). In between these, I used NetBSD on a couple of older systems and tried DragonFly. Over this time, I used various Linux distributions for my servers.

    I switched to using OpenBSD on my personal systems in 2018 and FreeBSD on my servers in 2019. I’ve been extremely happy with this pairing.

    I do most of my programming (in a variety of languages, though mostly C & Forth) under OpenBSD, then do test builds under FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly. (FreeBSD’s support for running Linux binaries is helpful in testing.) FreeBSD’s reliability & ZFS make it great for hosting my projects and various private resources.