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bsdtalk

Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.

Will Backman

150 episodesEN-US

Show overview

bsdtalk has been publishing since 2007, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 150 episodes. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.

None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 2.7 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2008, with 32 episodes published. Published by Will Backman.

Episodes
150
Running
2007–2023 · 16y
Cadence
Quarterly-ish

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Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.

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bsdtalk267 - Interview with Hans Petter Selasky

<p>Interview by Michael Dexter with FreeBSD developer Hans Petter Selasky who passed away this summer in a traffic accident in Norway.</p><p>Post on the FreeBSD email list https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-July/000076.html </p><p>File Info: 29 Min. 14MB</p><p>Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk267/bsdtalk267.ogg </p><p><br /></p>

Aug 26, 2023

bsdtalk266 - The nodes take over

We became tired of waiting.<br /> <br /> File Info: 7Min, 3MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk266/bsdtalk266.ogg

Feb 9, 2017

bsdtalk265 - Sunset on BSD

A brief description of playing around with SunOS 4.1.4, which was the last version of SunOS to be based on BSD.<br /> <br /> File Info: 17Min, 8Mb<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk265/bsdtalk265.ogg<br /> <br />

May 31, 2016

bsdtalk264 - Down the Gopher Hole

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<br /> <br /> Check out http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ <br /> <br /> File Info: 27 Min, 13 MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk264/bsdtalk264.ogg

Apr 30, 2016

bsdtalk263 - joshua stein and Brandon Mercer

This episode is brought to you by ftp, the Internet file transfer program, which first appeared in 4.2BSD. <br /> <br /> An interview with the hosts of the Garbage Podcast, joshua stein and Brandon Mercer. You can find their podcast at http://garbage.fm/<br /> <br /> File Info: 17Min, 8MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk263/bsdtalk263.ogg

Mar 23, 2016

bsdtalk262 - LightZone with Tex Andrews

An interview with Tex Andrews from Lightzoneproject.org.  LightZone is open source digital darkroom software.<br /> <br /> File Info: 23Min, 11MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk262/bsdtalk262.ogg

Feb 20, 2016

bsdtalk261 - Jails and System Management with Kris Moore

An interview with Kris Moore about the Warden jail management system, iocage, and progress on a new system management API.<br /> <br /> File Info: 30Min, 14MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/BSDTalk261/BSDTalk261.ogg

Jan 31, 2016

bsdtalk260 - TeachBSD.org with Robert N. M. Watson and George V. Neville-Neil

Can you believe that it has been a decade of BSDTalk?  The first episode aired on Dec 20, 2005.<br /> <br /> An interview with Robert N. M. Watson and George V. Neville-Neil about teaching operating systems with tracing and teachbsd.org.<br /> <br /> File Info: 36Min, 18Mb.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk260/bsdtalk260.ogg

Dec 20, 2015

bsdtalk259 - Supporting a BSD Project

A recording from vBSDCon 2015 of the talk titled "Supporting a BSD Project" with Ed Maste and George Neville-Neil.<br /> <br /> File Info: 65Min, 31MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk259/bsdtalk259.ogg

Nov 30, 2015

bsdtalk258 - Chris Henschen from fP Technologies

Oct 2015 is the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD source tree!<br /> <br /> This episode is brought to you by the id utility, which returns the user identity.  id appeared in 4.4 BSD.<br /> <br /> An interview from vBSDCon 2015 with Chris Henschen from fP Technologies.  They recently ported their filePro Plus product to FreeBSD.<br /> <br /> File Info: 6Min, 3MB<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk258/bsdtalk258.ogg

Oct 31, 2015

bsdtalk257 - NetBSD Developer Christos Zoulas

An interview with NetBSD developer Christos Zoulas at vBSDCon 2015.<br /> <br /> File Info: 15Min, 7MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk257/bsdtalk257.ogg

Sep 27, 2015

bsdtalk256 - Allan Jude

An interview with Allan Jude at vBSDCon in Reston, Virginia.  We talk about the book <i>FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS</i> that Michael W. Lucas and he co-authored.  You can find more information about the book at www.zfsbook.com<br /> <br /> File Info: 16Min, 8MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk256/bsdtalk256.ogg

Sep 17, 2015

bsdtalk255 - A quick update

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.<br /> <br /> File Info: 6Min, 3MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk255/bsdtalk255.ogg<br /> <br />

Aug 31, 2015

bsdtalk254 - PFsense and FreeNAS with Ken Worster

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.<br /> <br /> File info: 14min, 6MB<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk254/bsdtalk254.ogg

Jun 29, 2015

bsdtalk253 - George Neville-Neil

An interview with George Neville-Neil about the recently published 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.<br /> <br /> File Info: 30Min, 15MB<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk253/bsdtalk253.ogg

May 16, 2015

bsdtalk252 - devio.us with Brian Callahan

This episode has been brought to you by jot, the utility for printing sequential or random data.  Jot first appeared in 4.2 BSD.<br /> <br /> An interview with devio.us admin Brian Callahan.  http://devio.us is a free shell provider that runs on OpenBSD.<br /> <br /> File Info: 18Min, 8MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk252/bsdtalk252.ogg

Mar 23, 2015

bsdtalk251 - Verisign and FreeBSD: Internet Scale Services at 10 Gigabits per Server presented by Mike Bentkofsky, Marc de la Gueronniere, Julien Charbon

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<br /> <br /> File info: 47Min, 22MB<br /> <br /> Ogg link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk251/bsdtalk251.ogg

Feb 28, 2015

bsdtalk250 - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users by Rick Reed

A recording from a MeetBSD California 2014 talk titled "WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users" by Rick Reed.<br /> <br /> File Info: 56 Min, 27MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk250/bsdtalk250.ogg

Jan 31, 2015

bsdtalk249 - Netflix Update with Scott Long

A Netflix Update with Scott Long at MeetBSD California 2014.<br /> <br /> File Info: 11Min, 5MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk249/bsdtalk249.ogg

Dec 20, 2014

bsdtalk248 - DragonFlyBSD with Matthew Dillon

An interview with Matthew Dillon about the upcoming 4.0 release of DragonFly BSD.<br /> <br /> File Info: 43Min, 20MB.<br /> <br /> Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk248/bsdtalk248.ogg

Nov 19, 2014