Will Backman

bsdtalk

Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.

Author

Will Backman

Category

Technology

Podcast website

bsdtalk.blogspot.com

Latest episode

Aug 26, 2023

Where to listen?

Podcasts in the app Replaio Radio Coming soon

Podcasts are coming to the app soon. Install now and be the first to see a whole new take on podcasts

Get it on Google Play Install for free Android 5M+ downloads · 4.8 rating iOS soon

Episodes

bsdtalk217 - The tables are turned 30.06.2012

Another interview from BSDCan 2012, this time the microphone is turned on me by Paul Schenkeveld. Thank you to everyone who has contributed their time, money, technical assistance, suggestions, conference admission, and inspiration for this podcast. File info: 14min, 7MB. Ogg link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk217/bsdtalk217.ogg

bsdtalk216 - PC-BSD with Kris Moore 30.05.2012

Interview with Kris Moore from iXsystems at BSDCan 2012.  We talk about new features coming to the next release of PC-BSD. File Info: 14Min, 7MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk216/bsdtalk216.ogg

bsdtalk215 - NetBSD project update 23.05.2012

A conversation with David Maxwell, Julio Merino, and Brett Lymn at BSDCan 2012.  We talk about the upcoming 6.0 NetBSD release. File Info: 22Min, 10MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk215/bsdtalk215.ogg

bsdtalk214 - Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer 16.05.2012

Interview from BSDCan 2012 with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer. File Info: 56Min, 27MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk214/bsdtalk214.ogg

bsdtalk213 - EuroBSDCon with Paul Schenkeveld 11.05.2012

Interview with Paul Schenkeveld about the upcoming EuroBSDCon being held in Warsaw, Poland. More information at http://www.eurobsdcon.org File info: 14Min, 7MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk213/bsdtalk213.ogg

bsdtalk212 - Justin Sherrill from the DragonFlyBSD Project 16.02.2012

Interview with Justin Sherrill from the DragonFlyBSD project. We talk about the upcoming 3.0 release, Hammer version 2, and the general status of the project. More information at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/. You can find the DragonFlyBSD Digest at http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/. File Info: 27Min, 13MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk212/bsdtalk212.ogg

bsdtalk211 - The FreeBSD Foundation with Deb Goodkin 29.01.2012

Interview with Deb Goodkin, Director of Operations for the FreeBSD Foundation. The most recent newsletter, which talks about what the foundation did the last half of last year. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2011Dec-newsletter.shtml#Letter Their blog: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreeBSDFoundation Lastly, but probably most importantly, people ca...

bsdtalk210 - James Nixon from iXsystems 24.12.2011

Interview with James Nixon from iXsystems at the LISA 2011 conference in Boston. File Info: 20Min, 10MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk210/bsdtalk210.ogg

bsdtalk209 - BSD Certification with Jim Brown 08.12.2011

Interview with Jim Brown from BSDCertification.org. File Info: 16Min, 8MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk209/bsdtalk209.ogg

bsdtalk208 - Teaching Unix using BSD 24.11.2011

A brief description of how I use BSD to teach a Unix course at the University of Maine. File info: 15min, 7MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk208/bsdtalk208.ogg

bsdtalk207 - ArabBSD with Mohammed Farrag 04.08.2011

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk207/bsdtalk207.ogg

bsdtalk206 - Peter Losher from ISC 26.06.2011

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk206/bsdtalk206.ogg

bsdtalk205 - FreeNAS 8 with Josh Paetzel 04.06.2011

Interview from BSDCan 2011 with Josh Paetzel about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org/ File Info: 17Min, 8MB Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk205/bsdtalk205.ogg

bsdtalk204 - mdocml mit Ingo Schwartze and Kristaps Dzonsons 01.06.2011

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk204/bsdtalk204.ogg

BSDTalk 203 - BSDCan and PGCon with Dan Langille 17.03.2011

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk203/bsdtalk203.ogg

bsdtalk202 - DragonFlyBSD 2.8 with Matthew Dillon 06.11.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk202/bsdtalk202.ogg

bsdtalk201 - PC-BSD 9 Alpha with Kris Moore 05.11.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk201/bsdtalk201.ogg

bsdtalk200 - The mg text editor with Kjell Wooding 13.10.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk200/bsdtalk200.ogg

bsdtalk199 - PC-Sysinstall with John Hixson 05.10.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk199/bsdtalk199.ogg

bsdtalk198 - MeetBSD California 2010 29.09.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk198/bsdtalk198.ogg

bsdtalk197 - FreeNAS 8 with M. Warner Losh 19.09.2010

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: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk197/bsdtalk197.ogg

bsdtalk196 - NYCBSDCon with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil 14.09.2010

If you are looking for even more BSD interviews, check out The BSD Show at http://webbaverse.com/shows/the-bsd-show. Interview with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil about the NYCBSDCon 2010. Details can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/ The conference will be at http://www.cooper.edu/, which for 150 years has admitted students based on merit alone and provided each with a full-tuition sc...

bsdtalk195 - Mike Larkin 19.08.2010

This episode is brought to you by renice, which allows you to alter the priority of running processes. The renice utility appeared in 4.0BSD. Interview with Mike Larkin. We talk about ACPI and OpenBSD. Note: Shortly after recording this, OpenBSD added support for the "machdep.lidsuspend" sysctl. By setting this to "1", your machine should suspend automatically when the lid is closed. By default, O...

bsdtalk194 - Fossil SCM with D. Richard Hipp 22.07.2010

Interview with D. Richard Hipp. We talk about the Fossil distributed software configuration management system. More information can be found at http://www.fossil-scm.org. File Info: 30Min, 15MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk194/bsdtalk194.ogg

bsdtalk193 - FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival 03.07.2010

NYCBSDCon has published their Call for Papers (CFP). See their website for more details: http://www.nycbsdcon.org. Interview from BSDCan 2010 with Colin Percival. We talk about cryptography, Portsnap, FreeBSD Update, and Tarsnap. File Info: 20Min, 9MB. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk193/bsdtalk193.ogg

Listen to the bsdtalk podcast in Replaio

Radio and podcasts in one app - free, with no sign-up. Install today and do not miss the launch

Get it on Google Play

Replaio is not a podcast publisher; show names, artwork and audio belong to their authors and are distributed through public RSS feeds.