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149: The bhyve has been disturbed, and a wild Dexter appears!

Today on the show, we are going to be chatting with Michael Dexter about a variety of topics, but of course including bhyve! That plus

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NetBSD Introduction

• We start off today’s episode with a great new NetBSD article!
• Siju Oommen George has written an article for BSDMag, which provides a great overview of NetBSD’s beginnings and what it is today.
• Of course you can’t start an article about NetBSD without mentioning where the name came from:

“The four founders of the NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass, and Charles Hannum, felt that a more open development model would benefit the project: one centered on portable, clean and correct code. They aimed to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-quality, BSD-based operating system. The name “NetBSD” was suggested by de Raadt, based on the importance and growth of networks, such as the Internet at that time, the distributed and collaborative nature of its development.”

• From there NetBSD has expanded, and keeping in line with its motto “Of course it runs NetBSD” it has grown to over 57 hardware platforms, including “IA-32, Alpha, PowerPC,SPARC, Raspberry pi 2, SPARC64 and Zaurus”
• From there topics such as pkgsrc, SMP, embedded and of course virtualization are all covered, which gives the reader a good overview of what to expect in the modern NetBSD today.
• Lastly, in addition to mentioning some of the vendors using NetBSD in a variety of ways, including Point-Of-Sale systems, routers and thin-clients, you may not have known about the research teams which deploy NetBSD:

NASA Lewis Research Center – Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch use NetBSD almost exclusively in their investigation of TCP for use in satellite networks.
KAME project – A research group for implementing IPv6, IPsec and other recent TCP/IP related technologies into BSD UNIX kernels, under BSD license.
NEC Europe Ltd. established the Network Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany in 1997, as NEC’s third research facility in Europe. The Heidelberg labs focus on software-oriented research and development for the next generation Internet.
SAMS-II Project – Space Acceleration Measurement System II. NASA will be measuring the microgravity environment on the International Space Station using a distributed system, consisting of NetBSD.“

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My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project

• A presentation from a Wordpress conference, about what it is like to be the maintainer of a popular open source project
• The presentation covers the basics:
• Open Source is more than just the license, it is about community and involvement
• The difference between Maintainers and Contributors
• It covers some of the reasons people do not open up their code, and other common problems people run into:
  • “I'm embarrassed by my code” (Hint: so is everyone else, post it anyway, it is the best way to learn)
  • “I'm discouraged that I can't finish releases on time”
  • “I'm overwhelmed by the PR backlog”
  • “I'm frustrated when issues turn into flamewars”
  • “I'm

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