What do You like in them?Complexity?The challenge they represent? I know from other talks You gave You really like Embedded computing and the challenges which comes with them. Can You tell me more about them and Your involvement with both? )Ĭomputer Science in Northeastern University in Bostonĭid You get involved with BSD before or after it got taken over by Wind River? Q12: What did You run on Your machine at home? Any special HW Or Hobby? Is this the typical pick my brain - hear my advice on X thing You want to do with Your company ) networking, security, etc.)? Q11: On Your website it mentions Your consulting company. On FreeBSD You are also lead of the Kernel team / whom oversee changes and improvements getting into the FreeBSD kernel. How was it to work and coauthor a technical book/paper with someone legendary like him?ĭo You think if BSD didn’t get hold up in court by ATT / Unix Systems Laboratories We would have BSD *FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD * where Linux is today and perhaps Linux did not even exist today as there would have been no gap on the market to fill which resulted L. Q8: You are the author/coauthor of many books on BSD and FreeBSD with Kirk McKusick Q6: If You had to compare VxWorks to FreeBSD when it comes to the Embedded industry Can they compete with one another or VxWorks just leagues ahead when it comes to embedded devices? perhaps coming from that one is designed from the ground up to serve the purpose of being on embedded devices?ġa.: NetBSD with the running it on all (including microwaves did not sound more of a challengefor someone like Yourself who hacks the kernel all day long? Q5: I know from other talks You gave You really like Embedded computing and the challenges which comes with them. Q3: Did You get involved with BSD before or after it got taken over by Wind River? Q2: Computer Science in Northeastern University in Boston ) Q1: Your earliest memories of a computer? Did You grew up around them? It is great fun to watch and own and definitely a better recount of the events with many fun facts and personality as I could ever do myself. It is a near 4 hours long 2 parts presentation which recounts the History of BSD from the early days and another lecture about the Modern FreeBSD. If You are interested further as this episodes and shownotes are a very stripped down version of the work of Dr Marshall Kirk Mckusick´s notes and presentations Please consider purchasing His DVD of the History Of Berkeley Software Distributions from which this episode excerpts its facts and figures and historical recounting. Much of the information in this shownotesĬan be found in the chapter on Berkeley UNIX This episode gives credit and relies heavily/completely on the presentations, notes and speeches done and copyrighted fully of Dr Marshall Kirk Mckusick who is a renowned computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. * Did You ever miss the chance you were given to go and work for Sun Microsystems? * Kirk’s comments on my statement regarding the Linux Foundation receiving a lot of money through major corporations as Gold and Platinum sponsors (Microsoft, etc.) which is kind of a takeover is already happening in place steering its focus towards what these company’s have in their interests while the FreeBSD Foundation receiving very little money compared to the Linux Foundation while still the FreeBSD Foundation is doing an impressive job with the much smaller amount they are getting. * Linus Torvalds wrote an article back in 2004 about the prediction of the death of BSD, How much of Linus’ prediction has come true? *If BSD was not frozen up for 3 long years during the AT&T Lawsuit period which allowed Linux to get a head start. *What do you think of the ZFS file system? * Text editor of your choice, Which one are you using? * Did You get involved eventually with FreeBSD after BSD ceased to exist because you felt FreeBSD could be the proper continuation of the BSD flag so to say? *What do you feel when you look back on the history of BSD and what it became today including FreeBSD? Marshall Kirk McKusick is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. This is a very special episode of a 45 minute full interview with someone who worked on BSD and remains actively involved in FreeBSD as well.ĭr.
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