Friday, December 29, 2006

bsdtalk089 - NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo

Interview with NetBSD Release Engineer Jeff Rizzo. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release.

File info: 7MB, 15Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk089/bsdtalk089.ogg

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

bsdtalk088 - A Year of BSDTalk

News: BSDCan.org 2007 call for papers.

A short ramble about the first year of bsdtalk.

File info: 4MB, 8Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk088/bsdtalk088.ogg

Sunday, December 10, 2006

bsdtalk087 - FreeBSD Developer Joseph Koshy

Interview with FreeBSD developer Joseph Koshy about libELF. You can find more information about libELF at http://wiki.freebsd.org/LibElf.

File Info: 5MB, 9Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk087/bsdtalk087.ogg

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

bsdtalk086 - FreeBSD Developer Kip Macy

News: My car was hit tonight.

Interview with FreeBSD developer Kip Macy. We talk about the Ultrasparc T1 port.

File info: 10MB, 22Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk086/bsdtalk086.ogg

Thursday, November 30, 2006

bsdtalk085 - FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin

Interview with FreeBSD Port Committer Thomas McLaughlin about the BSD# project.

File Info: 9MB, 18Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk085/bsdtalk085.ogg

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

bsdtalk084 - FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah

News:
A new version of the Brighton Chilli WiFi hotspot is out.
See http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk/ for more information.

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Bruce Mah.

File Info: 7MB, 15Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk084/bsdtalk084.ogg

Saturday, November 18, 2006

bsdtalk083 - Pkgsrc Developer Johnny Lam

News:
FreeBSD Foundation Fall Fund Raising campaign.
Public patch set available for ZFS on FreeBSD.

Interview with pkgsrc developer Johnny Lam.

File info: 13Min, 6MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk083/bsdtalk083.ogg

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

bsdtalk082 - OpenBSD Developer Jason Wright

Interview with OpenBSD developer Jason Wright. We talk about his work on sparc and also amateur radio.

File info: 8MB, 17Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk082/bsdtalk082.ogg

Monday, November 06, 2006

bsdtalk081 - Thorsten Glaser from MirOS

News:
NetBSD 3.1 and 3.0.2 released.

Interview with Thorsten Glaser from MirOS, which can be found at www.mirbsd.org.

File info: 9MB, 19Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk081/bsdtalk081.ogg

Thursday, November 02, 2006

bsdtalk080 - EuroBSDCon Organizer Massimiliano Stucchi

Interview with EuroBSDCon organizer Massimiliano Stucchi.
After the interview, he wanted me to let people know that there's the chance to preorder O'reilly books, with a 30% discount, which can be picked up at the conference. Contact the folks at EuroBSDCon.org for details.

File info: 4MB, 8Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk080/bsdtalk080.ogg

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

bsdtalk079 - OpenBSD Developer David Gwynne

News:
Call for papers and presentations from AsiaBSDCon.
BSDCan pushed back a week to May 18 and 19.
I had a great weekend at NYCBSDCon. Slides and audio are available at www.nycbsdcon.org.

Interview with OpenBSD developer David Gwynne. We talk about the upcoming 4.0 release of OpenBSD and current projects that he is working on.

File info: 8MB, 16Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk079/bsdtalk079.ogg

Thursday, October 26, 2006

bsdtalk078 - Kris Moore from PC-BSD

Interview with Kris Moore from PC-BSD.

File info: 21Min, 10MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk078/bsdtalk078.ogg

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

bsdtalk077 - Matt Olander from iXsystems

Interview with Matt Olander from www.iXsystems.com.

File info: 9MB, 19Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk077/bsdtalk077.ogg

Thursday, October 12, 2006

bsdtalk076 - OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer

News: PC-BSD purchased by iXsystems.

Interview with OpenBSD Developer Marc Balmer. We talk about www.opencon.org and his work with OpenBSD.

File info: 7MB, 15Min.

https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk076/bsdtalk076.ogg

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

bsdtalk075 - Jim Curtin and Leo Reiter from Win4BSD

Jim Curtin and Leo Reiter from Win4BSD.com.

File info: 8MB, 17Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk075/bsdtalk075.ogg

Thursday, October 05, 2006

bsdtalk074 - Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon

Interview with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil from AsiaBSDCon.
More info at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.

File info: 6MB, 13Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk074/bsdtalk074.ogg

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

bsdtalk073 - Interview with Sevan Janiyan

There is now an ogg RSS feed on the main page thanks to a listener.

Interview with Sevan Janiyan. We talk about the Brighton Chilli WiFi hotspot project, which can be found at http://brightonchilli.geeklan.co.uk/

File info: 6MB, 13Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk073/bsdtalk073.ogg

Monday, October 02, 2006

bsdtalk072 - Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish

News: OpenBSD ends support for cats. Dogs rejoice.
Is anyone interested in a carpool from ME/NH/MA to the NYCBSDCon?

Interview with Poul-Henning Kamp about Varnish. More information at http://www.varnish-cache.org/.

File info: 17MB, 36Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk072/bsdtalk072.ogg

Thursday, September 28, 2006

bsdtalk071 - Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com

Interview with Einar Th. Einarsson from f-prot.com.

File Info: 8MB, 17Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk071/bsdtalk071.ogg

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

bsdtalk070 - Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour

Interview with NetBSD Developer Tim Rightnour. We talk about NetBSD/prep.

File Info: 7MB, 15Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk070/bsdtalk070.ogg

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

bsdtalk069 - Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD

News:
EuroBSDCon registration is now open.

Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD.

File Info: 7MB, 15Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk069/bsdtalk069.ogg

Friday, September 22, 2006

bsdtalk068 - Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck

Interview with OpenBSD Developer Bob Beck.

File Info: 12MB, 26Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk068/bsdtalk068.ogg

Thursday, September 21, 2006

bsdtalk067 - Interview with Dan Langille about backups

News:
The first Beta build for the FreeBSD-6.2 Release Cycle is now available.

Interview with Dan Langille about backups. Check out http://www.bacula.org/

File info: 10MB, 22Min

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk067/bsdtalk067.ogg

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

bsdtalk066 - Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail

News:
The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) published its Test Delivery Survey Report.
Pre-orders for OpenBSD 4.0 are enabled.

Interview with Michael Dexter about sysjail.
http://sysjail.bsd.lv/

File info: 35Min, 16MB

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk066/bsdtalk066.ogg

Thursday, September 14, 2006

bsdtalk065 - Interview with Eirik Øverby

News: NYCBSDCon Registration is now open.

Interview with Eirik Øverby. We talk about his use of BSD and Jails.

File info: 9MB, 18Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk065/bsdtalk065.ogg

Monday, September 11, 2006

bsdtalk064 - Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe

Interview with NetBSD Developer Jason Thorpe

File Info: 18MB, 38Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk064/bsdtalk064.ogg

Thursday, August 31, 2006

bsdtalk063 - Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility

Interview with Mitchell Smith about BSD and Accessibility.

File info: 8MB, 17min

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk063/bsdtalk063.ogg

Monday, August 21, 2006

bsdtalk062 - Interview with YAWS developer Claes Klacke Wikstrom

Interview with YAWS developer Claes "Klacke" Wikstrom.
Links from the show:
http://yaws.hyber.org/
http://www.erlang.org/

File Info: 8MB, 18Min

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk062/bsdtalk062.ogg

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

bsdtalk061 - Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke

Interview with lighttpd developer Jan Kneschke.

File info: 17MB, 35Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk061/bsdtalk061.ogg

Friday, August 11, 2006

bsdtalk060 - My BSD History

News:
FreeBSD Foundation's Semi-Annual Newsletter.
New FreeBSD Core Team.
NYCBSDCon Call for Presentations due Aug 15.
BSD booth at Linux-days in Essen, Germany on Sept 9 and 10.

My BSD History, and a bit on accessibility.

File Info: 5MB, 10Min

Ogg Link (fixed):
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk060/bsdtalk060.ogg

Friday, August 04, 2006

bsdtalk059 - Interview with Matt Morley

Interview with Matt Morley, BSD user.

File info: 11MB, 25Min.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk059/bsdtalk059.ogg

Monday, July 31, 2006

bsdtalk058 - Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org

News:
OpenDarwin site is shutting down.
$1000 prize for porting m0n0wall to FreeBSD 6.1.

Interview with Jason Thaxter from gomoos.org.

File info: 11MB, 23Min.

Ogg file:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk058/bsdtalk058.ogg

Monday, July 24, 2006

bsdtalk057 - Interview with Massimiliano Stucchi

News: NetBSD 3.0.1 Released.

Interview with Massimiliano Stucchi from WillyStudios.com.
We talk about VoIP and also EuroBSDCon.org.

File Info: 6MB, 13Min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk057/bsdtalk057.ogg

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

bsdtalk056 - Interview with Joel Jaeggli about nsrc.org

Interview with Joel Jaeggli about nsrc.org.

File Info: 8MB, 17min.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk056/bsdtalk056.ogg

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

bsdtalk055 - Interview with Greg Lehey

Interview with Greg "Groggy" Lehey.

File Info: 11MB, 24Min.

Some Links from the audio:
Home page:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/
The "Complete FreeBSD" link:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/
Hardware environment:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk055/bsdtalk055.ogg

Thursday, July 13, 2006

bsdtalk054 - Interview with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from nVidia

News:
FreeBSD Apr-June 2006 Status Report.
PC-BSD 1.2 Released.
BSD Certification Group Survey

Interview with Andy Ritger and Christian Zander from nVidia

File Info: 11MB, 24Min

Ogg URL:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk055/bsdtalk054.ogg

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

bsdtalk053 - Interview with Matthew Dillon

Interview with Matthew Dillon about the upcoming 1.6 release of DragonflyBSD.

File Info: 8MB, 17Min.

Ogg URL:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk053/bsdtalk053.ogg

Friday, July 07, 2006

bsdtalk052 - Interview with Pawel Jakub Dawidek

Interview with Pawel Jakub Dawidek.

File Info: 16Min, 8MB.

Ogg URL: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk052/bsdtalk052.ogg

Sunday, June 25, 2006

bsdtalk051 - Dumb Terminals

bsdtalk051 - Dumb Terminals.
Back from vacation.

File info: 5min, 3MB

Ogg version: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk051/bsdtalk051.ogg

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

bsdtalk050 - Interview with OpenBSD Developer Joris Vink

Interview with OpenBSD Developer Joris Vink.

File info: 8MB, 17Min.

Here is the Ogg version, quality level of 5:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk050/bsdtalk050.ogg

Original href to the Ogg version has been removed, as having an href in the body of the blog entry always seems to mess up the iTunes feed.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Thursday, May 25, 2006

bsdtalk048 - Interview with FreeBSD Developer Poul-Henning Kamp

News: Sun's DTrace now running on FreeBSD.

Interview with FreeBSD Developer Poul-Henning Kamp.

File Info: 11MB, 24Min.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

bsdtalk047 - Interview with Dan Langille

I would like to also have an OGG RSS feed, but blogger only creates a single feed.

Interview with Dan Langille, founder of BSDCan.

File info: 5MB, 11Min

Friday, May 19, 2006

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

bsdtalk045 - Interview with NetBSD Developer Mouse

News: End of life for the NetBSD 1.6 branch. Time to move on.

Interview with NetBSD developer Mouse.
Here is the link to mailshim: ftp://ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca/mouse/hacks/mailshim/

File info: 6MB, 13Min

Sunday, May 14, 2006

bsdtalk044 - Interview with Rasterman

Interview with Carsten Haitzler, also known as Rasterman.

File info: 27min, 12MB

Friday, May 12, 2006

Thursday, May 11, 2006

bsdtalk042 - Interview with Karl Lehenbauer from Flightaware

News: FreeBSD 6.1 is out.

Interview with Karl Lehenbauer from www.flightaware.com

File Info: 18min, 8.4MB

Sunday, May 07, 2006

bsdtalk041 - Interview with Chris DiBona from Google

Interview with Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, Inc.

File info: 8MB 17Min

Friday, May 05, 2006

Thursday, May 04, 2006

bsdtalk039 - Interview with BSD Developer Scott Ullrich

Interview with BSD Developer Scott Ullrich, who works on pfsense, the BSD Installer Project, and Dragonfly BSD.

File info: 7MB, 15 Minutes.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

bsdtalk037 - Interview with the Freesbie Development Team

News: PC-BSD 1.0 and OpenBSD 3.9 are out.

Interview with the Freesbie Development Team:
Dario Freni, Matteo Riondato, Massimiliano Stucchi, Rudy Lamarca.

Sorry about my audio troubles.

File info: 8.4MB 18 min.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

bsdtalk035 - Interview with NetBSD Core Group Member Matt Thomas

News: New "FreeBSD for all" Podcast, http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com

Interview with NetBSD Core Group Member Matt Thomas.

File info: 8MB, 17 Minutes.

Friday, April 21, 2006

bsdtalk034 - Interview with Mark Brewer from Covalent Technologies

News:
  • FreeBSD and NetBSD released first quarter status reports for 2006
  • OpenBSD has had some nice donations from Mozilla and GoDaddy.com
  • I won't be able to make it to BSDCan in May, but i'm willing to post any interview you can get at the event

Interview with Mark Brewer from Covalent Technologies.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Sunday, April 09, 2006

bsdtalk031 - Interview with Peter Hofer from DesktopBSD

Statistics: mp3 requests the the last 20 days of March by operating system.
2543 Linux, 1 Irix, 21 SunOS, 2847 BSD, 3279 Macintosh, 11340 Windows.

Interview with Peter Hofer from DesktopBSD

Friday, April 07, 2006

bsdtalk030 - Interview with Devon O'Dell and Jason Dixon

News: The FreeBSD Foundation announces Java downloads.

Interview with Devon O'Dell and Jason Dixon at the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

bsdtalk028 - Interview with Liam Foy

News: According to distrowatch.com Weekly, ISO images of the 1.0 Release of DesktopBSD have started to hit the mirrors.

Interview: Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD and also the creator of www.bsdportal.org.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

bsdtalk025 - Thin Clients with XDMCP

Thin Clients with XDMCP:
  • edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and Xaccess.
  • connect from thin client using "X -query server-ip".

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

bsdtalk024 - Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

Command line tip: viewing one page at at time with "ps ax | more"

Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

Friday, March 10, 2006

bsdtalk023 - Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

Man page tips:
  • Search the man pages for keywords, for example "man -k process"
  • Select the right section, for example "man 5 crontab"
Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Thursday, February 23, 2006

bsdtalk020 - Insecure Sharing with NFS

News:
  • FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 Beta2
  • BSDCan program released

Insecure Sharing with NFS:
  • Very insecure, home net behind firewall only!
  • NFS server should start portmap, mountd, lockd
  • NFS server should add a folder to /etc/exports
  • NFS client should mount server:/folder /mnt
  • OSX required mount_nfs -P
  • Tools: rpcinfo -p server, showmount -e server
  • User ID Sync is a problem

Friday, February 17, 2006

bsdtalk018 - Interview with Kirk McKusick

Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

bsdtalk017 - Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long.

(Did I call it FreeBSDTalk in the intro? Oops!)

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

bsdtalk015 - Interview with PostgreSQL developer Bruce Momjian

Before connecting a new install to the Internet
  • Make sure you have a strong root password
  • Create a regular user account for your use
  • Make sure you have applied all patches and updates
  • Understand the purpose for any listening process
Interview with PostgreSQL core developer Bruce Momjian

Friday, February 03, 2006

bsdtalk013 - Interview with Richard Bejtlich

Getting BSD:
  • Order CD's online - choose one close to you - buy to support project
  • Book Store - Many books come with CDs
  • Local Users Group - Free CDs and Installfest
  • Download ISO - http, ftp, mirrors, bittorrent
  • Net Install CD
Interview with Richard Bejtlich from www.taosecurity.com

Sunday, January 29, 2006

bsdtalk011 - USB Drives and Interview with FreeNAS Author Olivier Cochard

Mounting USB Thumb Drives (examples)
  • FreeBSD 6.0 mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
  • NetBSD 3.0 mount_msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt
  • OpenBSD 3.8 mount_msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt
  • Dmesg to find the device, Disklabel to find the partition
Interview with FreeNAS Author Olivier Cochard

Friday, January 27, 2006

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

bsdtalk009 - Interview with Webmin Author Jamie Cameron

Who is the BSD Daemon?
  • Daemons are process that run in the background attending to various tasks without human intervention.
  • some call it "Beastie" or "Chuck", in fact the proper name is just "BSD Daemon"
  • There is no satanic connection.
  • Earliest images were created by John Lasseter.
  • Currently, the copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick
Interview with Webmin Author Jamie Cameron.
  • Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix.
  • Written in Perl, and is BSD licensed.
  • Get a copy of the book "Managing Linux Systems with Webmin" by Jamie Cameron, published by Prentice Hall.
  • I can't seem get the word "Linux" right today.

Monday, January 23, 2006

bsdtalk008 - No Cost BSD Shell Accounts

News:
PC-BSD 1.0RC2 Released with KDE 3.5.
  • Desktop-oriented OS with easy package manager.
  • Similar in concept to Darwin's application bundles.
No Cost BSD Shell Accounts:

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

bsdtalk007 - Live BSD CDs

News:
DragonFlyBSD 1.4 released on Jan 7, 2006. I'll try their live CD/installer.
Will GPLv3 push more companies to BSD licensed software?

Live BSD CDs:
Test them on a few systems - old laptop, modern desktop, home desktop, modern laptop.
    Closing - Comments, Email, Website

    Tuesday, January 17, 2006

    bsdtalk006 - Three Headed Daemon

    News:
    OpenBSD used for anonymous surfing live CD - released at shmoocon 2006.

    Three Headed Daemon:
    Creating a triple-boot system - FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

    Monday, January 09, 2006

    bsdtalk005 - Unique Utilities

    News:

    FreeBSD-SA-06:04.ipfw - An attacker can cause the firewall to crash by sending ICMP IP fragments.

    Unique Utilities:
    • sushi - Part of the NetBSD 1.6 release. Has the same goals as sam on HP-UX, smit on AIX and other menu-driven configuration tools. How well does it work?
    • sysinstall - Part of FreeBSD 2.0. Menu driven installer that can later be used to configure the system. From the man page: "This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expiration date and is greatly in need of death."
    • OpenBSD doesn't try to use any home grown graphical configuration tools.