User:Megver83

1 About me

Parabola actual virtual sticker. To see the previous version, see here

Hi everybody. I'm a Chilean guy passionate for free software, and I consider ethics very important.

I'm bilingual, I can speak Spanish and English. I've written articles, translated and improved some others. I'm also a package maintainer.

2 Contributions to Parabola

2.1 Some artwork

I created the "Powered by Parabola" virtual sticker. Initially, I used Sans for the "Powered by" phrase, but now I use URW Gothic. If you want to translate it, there is no problem: I leave it under The Unlicense. It's also available in Spanish.

2.2 Parabola OpenRC Edition

Since I begun in Parabola as a packager, I dreamed with a non-systemd ISO (yeah, I didn't like systemd). So, as soon as I learned to create and customize ISO images I created the Parabola OpenRC ISO.

2.3 Kernel maintenance

I maintain primarily kernel packages, besides some various [pcr] and [nonsystemd] ones. Also deblob the RCN patch (see its wiki for more info) which we use on our ARM kernels.

2.4 Non-systemd packages

OpenRC, its init scripts, elogind and Nonsystemd packages are some of my priority to keep up-to-date. I believe that Parabola should integrate other inits other than Systemd, which is the only one that Arch uses (well, most of us know systemd does much more than being PID 1)

3 My hardware

All of these run Parabola with OpenRC.

3.1 Lenovo Thinkpad T440p

I bought it to Ministry of Freedom with OSBoot (based on Coreboot). I had to change the network card to a freedom-friendly one and the keyboard to a Spanish layout. One thing that called my attention is that Debian, which was shipped by laptop, booted lightning fast but Parabola did just regular. It's attached to a docking station and connected to various external screens and USB devices.

I use it for my daily stuff: university home work, programming, packaging, development, music production, multimedia, etc. KDE Plasma is my desktop.

3.2 Banana Pi M1

The first edition of the Banana Pi, with and ARMv7 CPU. It has aged well, I've done many experiments with it, specially regarding web and email server things. I don't use it very often nowadays, but sometimes I build some armv7h packages on it.

4 Contact

You can contact me through:

Libera Chat: Megver83

Email: megver83@parabola.nu

XMPP: megver83@jabjab.de

SIP: megver83@sip.linphone.org

Mastodon: @megver83@mastodon.cl

Diaspora: David P.

5 Translate my profile

If you know another language feel free to translate my profile. I'd be very thankful!