diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml index 147e2447f7..d016638c8b 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml @@ -3,6 +3,31 @@ + + Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019) + + Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a + project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly + after personalized license plates became available in Maryland, + he got "BSDWZRD". + + He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the + conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer + in October 2015. + + Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was + &man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to + avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and + enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces + of the FreeBSD infrastructure. + + Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516 + "A Method + for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)", and the + USENIX paper "Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News". + + Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)