HPR3439: Linux Inlaws S01E40: The One with the BSDs

Hacker Public Radio

In this episode, Martin and Chris host an eclectic panel of contributors to the *other* major FLOSS operating system family - you guessed it: the flavours of the Berkeley Software Distribution (aka BSD among friends). Disclaimer: you may be tempted to diverge from the Path of the Righteousness also known as Linux and give this alternative a spin. So this episode is *not* for the faint-hearted - listen at your own discretion! Also: the true defective nature of our beloved (?) hosts' past will be revealed - an episode not be missed despite the caveat! Plus a refresher on spaced-out operating system concepts including library operating systems and a rant on Android and friends. In addition to some cool BSD trolling...

Links:

• OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org
• FeeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org
• NetBSD: https://www.netbsd.org
• DragonFlyBSD: https://www.dragonflybsd.org
• 386BSD: https://www.386bsd.org
• RUMP kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel
• Library operating systems: https://www.sigarch.org/leave-your-os-at-home-the-rise-of-library-operating-systems
• Free BSD Linux Compatibility: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu
• BSD Jails (original paper): https://papers.freebsd.org/2000/phk-jails.files/sane2000-jail.pdf
• FeeBSD Ports: https://www.freebsd.org/ports
• NetBSD pkgsrc: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc
• ZFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
• BSD's pledge: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/410056/what-is-openbsds-pledge-in-short
• FreeBSD and Netflix: https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/looney-netflix_and_freebsd
• BSD Firewalls: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/firewalls
• Michael W. Lucas' "Savaged by Systemd": hhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd
• Linux vs. Minix: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
• Pegasus spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
• BSD History presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ
• The tragedy of systemd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
• The Rise and Fall of Copyleft: https://archive.org/download/OhioLinuxfest2013/24-Rob_Landley-The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Copyleft.mp3