User:Kgdrenefort

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Who am I ?

My name is Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT, I'm born in 1991 in France, near Paris.

I started using GNU/Linux on Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06), almost twenty years back. It literally changed my life, for the good.

Since I'm still on Linux, I tried several distributions and since Q4 of 2023 I finally tried Gentoo and I don't feel like moving from it, probably for good. Still liking a lot Debian, some others, while Gentoo is probably the best distribution for myself.

I worked a few years (±5) as an Linux System Administrator for a few french companies hosting web pages or bigger stuff.

Being a Linux user pushed me to learn and improve my (poor) English skill from school. Years and years later, I dedicate some of my free time to translate as much as possible the Gentoo's wiki pages, to help other french speakers to try it if they want to, but are lacking English skills.

My contributions to the wiki

Translation to French

This is a list of contribution I made on the wiki, some pages could be out-dated, I will try to maintains this regularly. These are my work here, chronologically ordered. Most of them would need other reviews as well, feel free to help:

My code

Hermessenger

Hermessenger

I am learning PHP8 since a year or so now, by reading php.net mostly.

As a main project for my study, I created a web mail form for HTML web page. It uses PHPMailer to send with SMTP and PHPDotenv. It’s also available on Packagist.

It is still experimental, lacks some really neat features I want to add, the security is a big concern to me but I am sure this is not bullet-proof as it is. If you feel like to help me review the code… Feel free, but please keep in mind this is my learning project and I am still a newbie at PHP!

Raspberry Pi 4B

This page is a notebook on my try-and-fail on compiling the Linux kernel from Pi Foundation sources and Gentoo’s one.

For learning, as much as for optimization in my use case (self-hosted web server), I try to :

  • Remove any unused features (GUI support is a big example), decreasing size, maybe boot time (I don’t care much…) and attack surfaces if possible.
  • Enable required driver on boot instead of loading them as module (i2c-dev being one for my ArgonV2 case and my fan, for example), since I need it anyway.
  • Optimization (example being using ZSTD compression instead of LZO for ZSwap)
  • A More secure kernel (if possible) by not only decreasing attack surface but enabling and testing Hardened features that *seems* to not be enabled (have to check) in the Pi Foundation kernel, or not tested on Gentoo as-it-is.


This is not me trying to do better, but it started with a feature missing (ZSTD compression for ZSwap) as much as my fan not fanning!

Feel free to contact me if you sure weird things, incorrect or poorly optimized.

WIP.

Contacting me

If you seek to contact me, you can do is on this wiki but also:

  • IRC: [email protected], you'll probably find me into #gentoo, #gentoo-wiki and #gentoo-chat, you can PM me as well.
  • Discord: kevingdr
  • Every day e-mail: kevingaspard [at] koshie [dot] fr

Will be glad to help, answer to your question(s) or get a review of my works on this wiki.

You want a page to be translated for example ? Don't hesitate, ask me.

Regards,

Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT (talk) 10:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

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