Hey Luis, thank you for the fantastic post. We’re enjoying the process of smaller, lighter, and more intentional.

My first foray into unix like OSes was BSD in the mid 90’s. It’s been fun to see it rip thorough commercial server infrastructures like crazy. It’s a remarkable industry in itself.

Thanks again for the kind words… let’s keep in touch, indeed.

About what you are saying about OSs, and platforms, I’ve been thinking of this concept since about 3 years now, where everything is becoming part of a huge distributed operating system, where processing occurs in different nodes, as a service, performed by different actors, where the Internet is the common ground where everything communicates, using (for now) dispair “protocols” to communicate each one of those actors.

I definitely think that in the near future all devices/nodes will be embeeded into our life.

Changing subjects, I just finished reading all your articles in these blog. I’m really happy for you and your family taking this direction. I can relate about living with the minimum. I just started a year ago what I call my second lifetime migration. I was born in Jujuy, Argentina, been there until 18. After that I moved to Buenos Aires, to study, and been there for about 24 years.

Been to different places because of work (I traveled around South, Central and North America). I kind of know all the perks of travelling, being light, and living visiting new places all around.

While living in Buenos Aires, I think I moved like about 10 times. Each time was a new oportunity to get rid of stuff that “you don’t need”. On my last move, from Argentina to the States, my son and me just packed the bare minimum: cloths, computers, rollerblades, all in 4 luggages. And that was it. Then we moved into a home here in Coppell, TX, near High School. We did acquired some stuff in one year. the basics for the house, but mostly things we enjoy having, like one gaming computer for our living room.

But, this is far from being a final place to be. I actually don’t think of “establishing” in one place for my lifetime. May be because of my experience working in different places, made me curious and a person that enjoys finding new places, meeting new people.

I can also relate about the impact we make as a person. Even in Buenos Aires, I was very careful about recycling (back there, you have black and green bags for your garbage). I actually had this feeling of “guilt” for buying meals that came with packages that only lasted 5 minutes, from the place where I bought it to home.

I was really shocked on how much discardable things people use here. I even increased the amout of garbage I used to generate in Buenos Aires.

I didn’t intend to write this much, but well, again, I really enjoyed your endeavour, thanks for sharing!

I hope to keep in touch!

Regards,
Luis

Definitelly something that https://owncloud.org/ could fix for you 😉

I’m hardware independent because 99% of what I do is on the cloud and all my files are backed up instantly. That said I did get sucked into the Google ecosystem mostly because of gdrive and gdocs, which is something I don’t like.

I’d love to check out your system when you’re ready for show and tell!