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Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.

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August 26, 2023

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


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We became tired of waiting.

File Info: 7Min, 3MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk266/bsdtalk266.ogg
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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

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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/b...
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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
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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
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An interview with Kris Moore about the Warden jail management system, iocage, and progress on a new system management API.

File Info: 30Min, 14MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/BSDTalk261/BSDTalk261.ogg
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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
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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
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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
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An interview with NetBSD developer Christos Zoulas at vBSDCon 2015.

File Info: 15Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk257/bsdtalk257.ogg
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September 16, 2015
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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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A talk from vBSDCon in 2013 titled Verisign and FreeBSD: Internet Scale Services at 10 Gigabits per Server presented by Mike Bentkofsky, Marc de la Gueronniere, Julien Charbon

File info: 47Min, 22MB

Ogg link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk251/bsdtalk251.ogg
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A recording from a MeetBSD California 2014 talk titled "WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users" by Rick Reed.

File Info: 56 Min, 27MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk250/bsdtalk250.ogg
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A Netflix Update with Scott Long at MeetBSD California 2014.

File Info: 11Min, 5MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk249/bsdtalk249.ogg
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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
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