Tag Archives: Interviews

pfSense on FLOSS (audio interview)

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Gerard

Scott Ullrich and Chris Buechler, the guys behind the pfSense project, have been interviewed by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte on FLOSS 101. (via) FLOSS Weekly is a podcast covering free and open source software. Will Backman has interviewed Randal Schwartz on … Continue reading →

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ostatic.com interview with FreeNAS developers

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Gerard

ostatic.com recently interviewed Olivier Cochard-Labbe, FreeNAS founder, and Volker Theile, project administrator. FreeNAS is free, lightweight, open source network attached storage (NAS) server software, based on FreeBSD. The following questions were asked: Who is your typical user? How do you … Continue reading →

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Interview with Kris Moore, PC-BSD (Distrowatch)

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Gerard

Distrwatch interviewed Kris Moore, founder and lead developer of PC-BSD, a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. They talk about the history of and reasons for creating PC-BSD, PBI package management, the upcoming PC-BSD 7, KDE4.1: The so-called “distribution for … Continue reading →

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Interview with Ken Smith (FreeBSD 7.0)

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Gerard

Will Backman from BSDTalk has uploaded an interview with Ken Smith (podcast), lead release engineer for FreeBSD. This interview is about the release of FreeBSD 7, performance tweaking, the release process, the features that made it in 7.0 and which … Continue reading →

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What’s new in FreeBSD 7?

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Gerard

FreeBSD is back to its incredible performance and now can take advantage of multi-core/CPUs systems very well… So well that some benchmarks on both Intel and AMD systems showed release 7.0 being faster than Linux 2.6 when running PostreSQL or … Continue reading →

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Kris Moore on PBI v4 (Interview)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Gerard

Will Backman from BSDTalk has interviewed Kris Moore,  PC-BSD founder, on the latest version of PBI (PC-BSD Push Button Installer). Listen to the interview here.

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m0n0wall, an open source lightweight firewall

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Gerard

Jeff Goldman has done an interview with Manual Kasper, the creator of m0n0wall. Here it is: Manuel Kasper developed the embedded firewall software package m0n0wall back in 2002, he says, while experimenting with embedded x86-based computers. Having just succeeded at … Continue reading →

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BSDTalk interview on PF Firewall

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Gerard

This is a BSDTalk interview with Peter N. M. Hansteen on the PF, Packet Filter, a firewall originally developed by OpenBSD. To find out more about the PF Firewall, check out “The Book of PF“.

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