The OpenBSD foundation, two years later (interview)
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
On July 25th, 2007 the OpenBSD Foundation was announced. Kenneth Westerback (krw@), one of the foundation directors, gave a talk at OpenCONabout the history of, reasons for and work done by the foundation. Undeadly spoke with him about the foundation.
In its almost two year history, the OpenBSD foundation has received a few large donations from well known companies as Google, HP and Mozilla. These donations are used to fund development in the broadest sense: they pay for hackathons, provide infrastructure (build machines etc.) and get developers’ hands on laptops or exotic machines and peripherals.
Videos from DCBSDCon posted
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
8 videos from the first DCBSDCon are now available in the BSDConferencesYouTube channel.
- Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs
- Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD
- Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD
- Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis
- Epitome, Marco Peereboom
- Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps Dzonson
- OpenBSD vs SMP, Threading, and Concurrency, Ted Unangst
- A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
Dru Lavigne’s Scale Talk
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
Dru Lavigne’s talk at SCALE 2009 is available from the SCALE website as mp3 and PDF