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Brad Fitzpatrick

Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later co-founded Tailscale.

7 things

emacsSoftware

uses

Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

screenSoftware

uses

Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

GIMPSoftware

uses

Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

WireSharkSoftware

uses

Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

Intel SSDHardware Intel

uses

My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

x200Hardware Lenovo

uses

At work I have an x200 laptop, a MacBook Pro (rarely booted), a few VMs, and a z600 (16 cores, 12 GB RAM) with a 30" display.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

Mac miniHardware Apple

mixed

My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

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