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Will Backman has uploaded BSDTalk 175 , a 23 minute interview with Michael Dexter of BSD Fund.
This is an interview with Michael Dexter about BSD Fund. They talk about the release of the BSD Fund Visa Credit Card, PCC, and various other projects.
Michel Dexter has now announced the Beastie Visa Card. Every time the BSD Fund Visa is used, a small donation is made to BSD Fund to support its programs. Note, that currently the card is only available to US residents.
BSDTalk has a 16 minute interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD founder)
BSDTalk 174 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
BSDTalk has a 38 minutes interview with some FreeBSD developers at last weeks BSDCan 2009: Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, Hiroki Sato, Philip Paeps, and George V. Neville-Neil. They talk about the recent FreeBSD 7.2 release, and what is coming for 8.
BSDTalk 173 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
BSDTalk has a 13 minutes interview with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSD Can 2009 (8-9 May)
BSDTalk 172 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
Will Backman of BSDTalk has uploaded a 55 minute recording of a talk by Marshall Kirk McKusick, titled “A Narrative History of BSD”, done at the last DCBSDCon.
BSDTalk 170 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
Will Backman from BSDTalk has a 17 minutes interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems.
They talk about how iXsystems has build its business model around open source software and how open source software is being used internally as much as possible.
iXsystems offer PC-BSD laptops and desktops, FreeNAS base NAS servers etc
As a sidenote, BSDTalk is celebrating its 3rd birthday. Congratulations, Will. Keep this going!
BSDTalk 168 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
Will Backman talks in BSDTalk #167 with Jason Dixon about organizing DCBSDCon and about two speakers, Marshall Kirk McKusick and Henning Brauer. DCBSDCon will take place in February 2009.
BSDTalk 167 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
BSDTalk has a 23 minutes interview with John Todd, Open Source community director at Asterisk
BSDTalk 166 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
For those interested in Asterisk on FreeBSD with a lot of preconfiguring already done and a lot of extras, try AskoziaPBX.
Askozia®PBX aims to make the power of Asterisk® available to the average user in a slimmed down, embedded PC friendly form. AskoziaPBX is more than another GUI for Asterisk. It is an embedded PBX solution which eases system upgrades, backups and provisioning.
The MeetBSD conference is over (and the celebration of FreeBSD’s 15th birthday). Dru Lavigne has written up a summary of the talks.
Will Backman has recorded a podcasts during the conference.
If I come across more sites, I’ll let you know.
BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Kris Moore about the release of PC-BSD 7.
BSDTalk 159 - Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG
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