13: Bridging the Gap

This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.

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Getting to know your portmgr

In this interview they talk to one of the "Annoying Reminder Guys" - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD's portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)
He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD
Describes FreeBSD as "the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community."
In the next one they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@)
The usual, "what inspires you about FreeBSD" "how did you get into it" etc. ***

vBSDCon wrap-up compilation

Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place
Some from OpenBSD guys
Some from FreeBSD guys
Some from RootBSD
Some from iXsystems
Some from Verisign
And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009 ***

Faces of FreeBSD

This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary
Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD
"I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use."
He's been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports
He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team ***

Dragonfly 3.6 released

dports now default instead of pkgsrc
Big SMP scaling improvements
Experimental i915 and KMS support
See our interview with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long ***

Interview - Jordan Hubbard - jkh@freebsd.org / @omgjkh

FreeBSD's founding and future

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD router, part 2

Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the prop

Published on 12 years ago

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