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bsdtalk

Will Backmanbsdtalk.blogspot.com
Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.
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bsdtalk267 - Interview with Hans Petter Selasky

Interview by Michael Dexter with FreeBSD developer Hans Petter Selasky who passed away this summer in a traffic accident in Norway. Post on the FreeBSD email list https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-July/000076.html File Info: 29 Min. 14MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk267/bsdtalk267.ogg

Aug 26, 2023

bsdtalk265 - Sunset on BSD

A brief description of playing around with SunOS 4.1.4, which was the last version of SunOS to be based on BSD. File Info: 17Min, 8Mb Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk265/bsdtalk265.ogg

May 31, 2016

bsdtalk264 - Down the Gopher Hole

Playing around with the gopher protocol. Description of gopher from the 1995 book "Student's Guide to the Internet" by David Clark. Also, at the end of the episode is audio from an interview with Mark McCahilll and Farhad Anklesaria that can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR76UI7aTvs Check out http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ File Info: 27 Min, 13 MB. Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk264/bsdtalk264.ogg

Apr 30, 2016

bsdtalk263 - joshua stein and Brandon Mercer

This episode is brought to you by ftp, the Internet file transfer program, which first appeared in 4.2BSD. An interview with the hosts of the Garbage Podcast, joshua stein and Brandon Mercer. You can find their podcast at http://garbage.fm/ File Info: 17Min, 8MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk263/bsdtalk263.ogg

Mar 23, 2016

bsdtalk262 - LightZone with Tex Andrews

An interview with Tex Andrews from Lightzoneproject.org. LightZone is open source digital darkroom software. File Info: 23Min, 11MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk262/bsdtalk262.ogg

Feb 20, 2016

bsdtalk260 - TeachBSD.org with Robert N. M. Watson and George V. Neville-Neil

Can you believe that it has been a decade of BSDTalk? The first episode aired on Dec 20, 2005. An interview with Robert N. M. Watson and George V. Neville-Neil about teaching operating systems with tracing and teachbsd.org. File Info: 36Min, 18Mb. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk260/bsdtalk260.ogg

Dec 20, 2015

bsdtalk259 - Supporting a BSD Project

A recording from vBSDCon 2015 of the talk titled "Supporting a BSD Project" with Ed Maste and George Neville-Neil. File Info: 65Min, 31MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk259/bsdtalk259.ogg

Nov 30, 2015

bsdtalk258 - Chris Henschen from fP Technologies

Oct 2015 is the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD source tree! This episode is brought to you by the id utility, which returns the user identity. id appeared in 4.4 BSD. An interview from vBSDCon 2015 with Chris Henschen from fP Technologies. They recently ported their filePro Plus product to FreeBSD. File Info: 6Min, 3MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk258/bsdtalk258.ogg

Oct 31, 2015

bsdtalk256 - Allan Jude

An interview with Allan Jude at vBSDCon in Reston, Virginia. We talk about the book FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS that Michael W. Lucas and he co-authored. You can find more information about the book at www.zfsbook.com File Info: 16Min, 8MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk256/bsdtalk256.ogg

Sep 17, 2015

bsdtalk255 - A quick update

My apologies for not having any recent interviews. More to come when I attend vBSDCon. School firewalls switched over to PFSense. Urging calm discussions around NextBSD. File Info: 6Min, 3MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk255/bsdtalk255.ogg

Aug 31, 2015

bsdtalk254 - PFsense and FreeNAS with Ken Worster

An interview with Ken Worster who is presenting on topics which include PFSense and FreeNAS in schools at the Technology Teacher ME conference in Bethel Maine. File info: 14min, 6MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk254/bsdtalk254.ogg

Jun 29, 2015

bsdtalk253 - George Neville-Neil

An interview with George Neville-Neil about the recently published 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. File Info: 30Min, 15MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk253/bsdtalk253.ogg

May 16, 2015

bsdtalk252 - devio.us with Brian Callahan

This episode has been brought to you by jot, the utility for printing sequential or random data. Jot first appeared in 4.2 BSD. An interview with devio.us admin Brian Callahan. http://devio.us is a free shell provider that runs on OpenBSD. File Info: 18Min, 8MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk252/bsdtalk252.ogg

Mar 23, 2015

bsdtalk248 - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon

An interview with Matthew Dillon about the upcoming 4.0 release of DragonFly BSD. File Info: 43Min, 20MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk248/bsdtalk248.ogg

Nov 19, 2014

bsdtalk246 - Playing with tor

Looking forward to attending MeetBSD in California this weekend. Still working on finding a new /home for all my stuff, but thank you all who have offered suggestions and hosting. Playing with tor, but under no illusions that it makes me safe. One trick I did was to add the following to my pf.conf file on OpenBSD: block out all pass out proto { tcp, udp } all user _tor File info: 19Min, 9MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk246/bsdtalk246.ogg...

Oct 31, 2014

bsdtalk245 - Looking for a new home

Just a short update about the server that houses the podcast files. University IT consolidation has created some unplanned changes, but I hope to have a new server spun up soon. Also, curious to hear what all of you use for your home directory on the Internet. File Info: 7Min, 3MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk245/bsdtalk245.ogg

Sep 30, 2014

bsdtalk243 - mandoc with Ingo Schwarze

Interview about mandoc with Ingo Schwarze. The project webpage describes mandoc as "a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals." Recorded at BSDCan 2014. File Info: 16Min, 8MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk243/bsdtalk243.ogg

Jul 27, 2014

bsdtalk241 - Bob Beck

Interview at BSDCan 2014 with Bob Beck from the OpenBSD Project and the OpenBSD Foundation. File Info: 26Min, 12MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk241/bsdtalk241.ogg

May 24, 2014

bsdtalk240 - About Time with George Neville-Neil

An interview with George Neville-Neil about the network time protocol and the precision time protocol. File Info: 35Min, 17MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk240/bsdtalk240.ogg

Apr 30, 2014

bsdtalk239 - PkgNG with Baptiste Daroussin at vBSDCon

A recording of Baptiste Daroussin speaking at vBSDCon in October 2013. He is a FreeBSD source committer and project developer for PkgNG. PkgNG is a package management tool for FreeBSD. It is the replacement for the current pkg_info/pkg_create/pkg_add tools. File Info: 55Min, 26MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk239/bsdtalk239.ogg

Mar 29, 2014

bsdtalk238 - Voices from NYCBSDCon 2014

NYCBSDCon 2014 was great, and I recorded a series of voices from the attendees. Also, the FreeBSD Journal release was announced at the conference. File Info: 9Min, 4Mb. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk238/bsdtalk238.ogg

Feb 12, 2014
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