Archive for the ‘BSDTalk’ Category

bsdtalk207 – ArabBSD with Mohammed Farrag

Posted on August 4th, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview with Mohammed Farrag about the ArabBSD project.

The ArabBSD website https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/

Contact us (Calling for Volunteers )webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/contacts

FreeBSD Summer Course Tutorials https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/freebsd-summer-course

File Info: 15min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk207.ogg

bsdtalk206 – Peter Losher from ISC

Posted on July 2nd, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview with Peter Losher from the Internet Systems Consortium. We talk about ISC, running DNS root servers, and various other projects. For information, see http://www.isc.org/

File Info: 17Min, 8MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk206.ogg

bsdtalk205 – FreeNAS 8 with Josh Paetzel

Posted on June 4th, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview from BSDCan 2011 with Josh Paetzel about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org/

File Info: 17Min, 8MB

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk205.ogg

bsdtalk204 – mdocml mit Ingo Schwartze and Kristaps Dzonsons

Posted on June 1st, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview with Ingo Schwartze and Kristaps Dzonsons at BSDCan 2011. We talk about mdocml and man pages. More information at http://mdocml.bsd.lv/

File Info: 32 min, 15MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk204.ogg

BSDTalk 203 – BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about BSDCan and PGCon 2011. More information on these conferences at http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/ and http://www.pgcon.org/2011/

File info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk203.ogg

BSDTalk 203 – BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about BSDCan and PGCon 2011. More information on these conferences at http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/ and http://www.pgcon.org/2011/

File info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk203.ogg

BSDTalk #195 – Mike Larkin (and ACPI)

Posted on February 15th, 2011 by "openbsd journal" from "OpenBSD Journal"

In another BSDTalk interview we missed from last year, Will Backman interviews Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) about his work with ACPI in OpenBSD. In contrast to other operating systems (predominantly using Intel's code), OpenBSD has a simple, independent implementation of ACPI. Mike talks about the challenges they've experienced working with AML parsers, poor hardware implementations, lackluster compliance to the ACPI "standard"

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BSDTalk #200 – The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding

Posted on February 13th, 2011 by "openbsd journal" from "OpenBSD Journal"

Igor Zinovik reminded us that we completely forgot to mention BSDTalk #200 from last October. This is a great episode featuring Kjell Wooding (kjell@) discussing his experiences as maintainer of the mg(1) text editor. Kjell goes on to recall how he got involved with the OpenBSD project and some of his other work along the way.

Episode 200 can be

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bsdtalk202 – DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon

Posted on November 6th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Matthew Dillon about the recent 2.8 release of DragonFlyBSD. More information at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

File Info: 15Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk202.ogg

bsdtalk202 – DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon

Posted on November 6th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Matthew Dillon about the recent 2.8 release of DragonFlyBSD. More information at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

File Info: 15Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk202.ogg

bsdtalk201 – PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore

Posted on November 6th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Kris Moore. We talk about the new alpha snapshot of PC-BSD 9. More information at http://blog.pcbsd.org/

File Info: 18Min, 9MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk201.ogg

bsdtalk201 – PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore

Posted on November 6th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

Interview from MeetBSD California 2010 with Kris Moore. We talk about the new alpha snapshot of PC-BSD 9. More information at http://blog.pcbsd.org/

File Info: 18Min, 9MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk201.ogg

bsdtalk200 – The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by netstat, a command to show the network status. The netstat command appeared in 4.2BSD.

Interivew with Kjell Wooding. We talk about the mg text editor. More information can be found in the OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg

File Info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk200.ogg

bsdtalk200 – The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by netstat, a command to show the network status. The netstat command appeared in 4.2BSD.

Interivew with Kjell Wooding. We talk about the mg text editor. More information can be found in the OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg

File Info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk200.ogg

bsdtalk199 – PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson

Posted on October 5th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by talk, the original instant messaging client. The talk command appeared in 4.2 BSD.

Interview with John Hixson. We talk about his work on PC-Sysinstall, the PC-BSD installer and possible alternative to the FreeBSD sysinstall.

File Info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk199.ogg

bsdtalk199 – PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson

Posted on October 5th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by talk, the original instant messaging client. The talk command appeared in 4.2 BSD.

Interview with John Hixson. We talk about his work on PC-Sysinstall, the PC-BSD installer and possible alternative to the FreeBSD sysinstall.

File Info: 14min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk199.ogg

bsdtalk198 – MeetBSD California 2010

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by last, used to show a list of the last logins to the system. Last appeared in 3.0BSD.

Interview with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon. We talk about MeetBSD California 2010. More information at http://www.meetbsd.com/

File Info: 12min, 6MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk198.ogg

bsdtalk198 – MeetBSD California 2010

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by last, used to show a list of the last logins to the system. Last appeared in 3.0BSD.

Interview with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon. We talk about MeetBSD California 2010. More information at http://www.meetbsd.com/

File Info: 12min, 6MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk198.ogg

bsdtalk197 – FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh

Posted on September 19th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by biff, a utility that notifies you that mail has arrived. The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD.

Interview with M. Warner Losh about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org.

File Info: 37Min, 18MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk197.ogg

bsdtalk197 – FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh

Posted on September 19th, 2010 by "Will Backman" from "bsdtalk"

This episode is brought to you by biff, a utility that notifies you that mail has arrived. The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD.

Interview with M. Warner Losh about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org.

File Info: 37Min, 18MB.

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk197.ogg