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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
“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.”
NASA Lewis Research Center – Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch use NetBSD almost exclusively in their investigation of TCP for use in satellite networks.
“When Allan started his own company hosting websites for video streaming, FreeBSD was the only operating system he had previously used with other hosts. Based on his experience and comfort with it, he trusted the system with the future of his budding business.A decade later, the former-SysAdmin went to a conference focused on the open-source operating system, where he ran into some of the folks on its documentation team. “They inspired me,” he told our team in a recent chat. He began writing documentation but soon wanted to contribute improvements beyond the docs.Today, Allan sits as a FreeBSD Project Committer. It’s rare that you get to chat with someone involved with a massive-scale open-source project like this — rare and awesome.”
“The FreeBSD Project functions like an extremely well-organized world all its own. Allan explained the environment: “There’s a documentation page that explains how the file system’s laid out and everything has a place and it always goes in that place.””
“An important take-away is that you don’t have to be a major developer with tons of experience to make a difference in the project,” Allan said — and the difference that devs like Allan are making is incredible. If you too want to submit the commit that contributes to the project relied on by millions of web servers, there are plenty of ways to get involved!
We’re especially talking to SysAdmins here, as Allan noted that they are the main users of FreeBSD. “Having more SysAdmins involved in the actual build of the system means we can offer the tools they’re looking for — designed the way a SysAdmin would want them designed, not necessarily the way a developer would think makes the most sense”
Developer Ed Maste is requesting information from those who are users of libvgl.
HEADS UP: DragonFly 4.5 world reneeds rebuilding
Chris Buechler is leaving the pfSense project, the entire community thanks you for your many years of service
GhostBSD 10.3-BETA1 now available
DragonFlyBSD adds nvmectl
OPNsense 16.1.18 released
bhyve_graphics hit CURRENT
FreeBSD Central Twitter account looking for a new owner
NYCBUG meeting : Meet the Smallest BSDs: RetroBSD and LiteBSD, Brian Callahan
NYCBUG install fest @ HOPE
SemiBUG is looking for presentations for September and beyond
Caleb Cooper is giving a talk on Crytpo at KnoxBUG on July 26th
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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
“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.”
NASA Lewis Research Center – Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch use NetBSD almost exclusively in their investigation of TCP for use in satellite networks.
“When Allan started his own company hosting websites for video streaming, FreeBSD was the only operating system he had previously used with other hosts. Based on his experience and comfort with it, he trusted the system with the future of his budding business.A decade later, the former-SysAdmin went to a conference focused on the open-source operating system, where he ran into some of the folks on its documentation team. “They inspired me,” he told our team in a recent chat. He began writing documentation but soon wanted to contribute improvements beyond the docs.Today, Allan sits as a FreeBSD Project Committer. It’s rare that you get to chat with someone involved with a massive-scale open-source project like this — rare and awesome.”
“The FreeBSD Project functions like an extremely well-organized world all its own. Allan explained the environment: “There’s a documentation page that explains how the file system’s laid out and everything has a place and it always goes in that place.””
“An important take-away is that you don’t have to be a major developer with tons of experience to make a difference in the project,” Allan said — and the difference that devs like Allan are making is incredible. If you too want to submit the commit that contributes to the project relied on by millions of web servers, there are plenty of ways to get involved!
We’re especially talking to SysAdmins here, as Allan noted that they are the main users of FreeBSD. “Having more SysAdmins involved in the actual build of the system means we can offer the tools they’re looking for — designed the way a SysAdmin would want them designed, not necessarily the way a developer would think makes the most sense”
Developer Ed Maste is requesting information from those who are users of libvgl.
HEADS UP: DragonFly 4.5 world reneeds rebuilding
Chris Buechler is leaving the pfSense project, the entire community thanks you for your many years of service
GhostBSD 10.3-BETA1 now available
DragonFlyBSD adds nvmectl
OPNsense 16.1.18 released
bhyve_graphics hit CURRENT
FreeBSD Central Twitter account looking for a new owner
NYCBUG meeting : Meet the Smallest BSDs: RetroBSD and LiteBSD, Brian Callahan
NYCBUG install fest @ HOPE
SemiBUG is looking for presentations for September and beyond
Caleb Cooper is giving a talk on Crytpo at KnoxBUG on July 26th
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