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You're here, Bob, of course. Bob is hot. Bob is very hot.
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Welcome to BSD is Dying.
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No, it's not dead yet,
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we're getting there.
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Anybody out here last year?
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Okay. I gave a really bad talk on pf, and I
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appreciate Bob coming out and correcting me this year.
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Anyways, we should go and get started.
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BSD is Dying.
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What is BSD?
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I think most of us know, BSD is a derivative of UNIX.
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Okay, what is UNIX?
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UNIX is an
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operating system.
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What is an operating system?
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It runs computers.
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But, what is a computer?
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It helps users accomplish tasks. What is a user?
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A user is somebody biped
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that stands up right sort of like me.
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Who am I? My name is Jason Dixon.
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First and foremost, a SysAdmin. I like to work on networks,
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firewalls. I like to tweak.
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No. Yes.
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I'm a programmer, sort of. I enjoy
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Perl, Postgres,
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on Apache
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servers. I'm a consultant here. I'm an employee
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here, and a lover of
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BSD.
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Why am I here?
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That’s the question I've been asking myself all along.
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To talk about why BSD is dying.
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Sex and greed.
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Someone kick these guys out.
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Okay. So again, what is BSD? What is UNIX?
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What is an operating system? What is a computer?
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Computer is a device that computes, especially a
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programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed
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mathematical or logical operations or that assembles,
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stores, correlates, or
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otherwise processes
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information.
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This is a computer. This is also known as a
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computer. This is a really big computer.
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This is a big big computer, and sometimes,
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it just can, well, compute
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But what does a computer really do?
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All right, it helps us write documents,
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shopping lists. Sometimes, it can even delete documents.
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It helps us work with email,
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surf the Web, movies,
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and listen to music.
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Oh, and yes, games.
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How? How does the computer let us do these
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things? Well, it takes the work
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and using the computer component, we can translate it
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into machine language
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that is the foundation
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for kernel, libraries, userland applications,
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otherwise known as an operating system.
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like BSD.
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What is a kernel?
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It's a wonderful thing, it allows
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The management of processes memory, peripheral devices,
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and by extension, allows us to do networking, security,
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work with disks and file systems, user interfaces,
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userland applications, like
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people can write documents, check email, surf the Web,
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watch movies, listen to music, and play games.
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and much, much more.
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So, in summary, BSD
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is a UNIX-derived operating system
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enables users to harness the power of a computer to process
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information. It uses the kernel to manage processes memory,
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and peripheral devices. And by extension, we can perform
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networking, enforce security, read from and write to storage
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devices, and interface visually to applications like text
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editors, mail clients, Web browsers, multimedia players, and
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games.
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In the beginning, I'm going to try and breeze through this,
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people
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The Holy
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Trinity – MIT, Bell Labs, and GE created
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a systems called Multics.
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This is a nice flash from the past.
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Life was good.
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No. No.
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Actually, it
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wasn’t. The Multics was a commercial
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failure. So, a couple of gentlemen like Ken Thompson and
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Dennis Ritchie were not
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[xx] support, liked to play games. They worked at Bell Labs
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and they had this game called
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Space Travel, which performed really
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really badly. So, what's…actually, I'm sorry
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it ran on a PDP-7.
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What is an assembly programmer to do when a game
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doesn’t work properly on the star board? He mauls
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it. So, in 1969, Ken Thompson
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and
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Sorry, came out with the Uniplexed Information
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and Computing System. It was capable of supporting
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a number of users
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up to two.
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And by
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1970, UNIX was officially known as U-N-I-X Unix
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It ran on a PDP1145
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and was capable of text processing
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and had utilities like roff and a text editor.
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for the purpose of
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patents. By
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1973, they rewrote UNIX and a programming language called
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C which allowed AT&T to make the source code available
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to let other
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people run it on their systems.
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By 1974, a gentleman by the name of Bob Fabry,
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who was at the University
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of Cal Berkeley in their Computer Science Department
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bought a copy of UNIX for $99.
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to run their PDP-11.
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By 1977, a gentleman named Bill Joy, a graduate
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student, distributed the Berkeley Software
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Distribution as
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1BSD. It was on a tape media that contained the PASCAL
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compiler, the ex editor, and
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by 1978, it was known as 2BSD with
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vi, csh, and the list
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goes on.
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By 4BSD, we had job control, delivermail,
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precursor to sendmail, curses, libraries. 1981,
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4.1BSD, this one, we are recorded through VAX
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addressed a number of memory performance issues with UNIX on VAX
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1983, 4.2BSD uses TCP/IP from BBN,
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and also the Berkeley Fast File System from the
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gentleman, Kirk McKusick,
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who also brought us the original Beastie today.
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In 1986, 4.3BSD introduced performance improvements
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over 4.2BSD
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By 1988, we had a list called 4.3BSD-Tahoe
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originally intended to run on the Power 6/32
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“Tahoe” platform.
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That platform actually never came to fruition
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but it did allow us to abstract some of the
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machine-independent
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code which allowed it to become portable much later on.
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By 1989, there was
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Net/1, which separated the networking code
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from the AT&T UNIX code
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allowing for a permissive BSD license
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By 1990, 4.3BSD-Reno
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introduced the MACH virtual files, MACH virtual
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memory system, Sun-compatible NFS
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However, it was known as a real
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gamble, hence the Reno moniker.
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By 1991, we had
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Net/2 where all AT&T code and utilities were
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replaced or removed
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and ran on the Intel 386
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and it became the basis for the 386BSD
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and BSD/386 releases.
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A gentleman by the name of Bill Jolitz
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behind 386
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BSD release, which eventually became the foundation for
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FreeBSD and NetBSD.
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And the
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BSD3, I'm sorry, the 386BSD, which later on became
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BSD/OS by BSDI
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Exodus. Back in 1992, a wholly owned subsidiary of
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AT&T called Unix System Laboratories
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decided to go after
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BSDI for
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I'm sorry,
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in New
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Jersey, as for an injunction against him due to various
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what they consider proprietary
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code in the
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BSD.
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This was one of their advertising things again, they used
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this as the basis for the
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lawsuit. I have
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no idea what that’s for.
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Net/2 was basically, I'm sorry
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the three BSDIs version of BSD OS is basically Net/2
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+ 6 files that they had version from
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Bill Jolitz’s 386
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BSD. The lawsuit was, I'm sorry, the court settlement was
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ruled over by a judge who denied the injunction
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and asked them to narrow their
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complaint to recent California copyrights
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and the possibility of the loss of
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trade secrets. He also did a really great thing
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for BSD is that he hinted,
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that…actually by this
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point, the University of California Berkeley had been
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also added into the
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lawsuit. Well, he gave a hint to bring the case to the state
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court. So,
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BSD laywers were pretty smart over at Cal and they decided
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to make a run over to the state court by the next
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Monday to file a countersuit
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against USL,
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0:09:39.390,0:09:43.250
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in the state of California.
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||
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0:09:43.250,0:09:46.280
|
||
Soon after USL went up for
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0:09:46.280,0:09:49.070
|
||
sale, and it was bought by Novell
|
||
|
||
0:09:49.070,0:09:53.860
|
||
A gentleman, Ray Noorda, the CEO
|
||
|
||
0:09:53.860,0:09:58.730
|
||
at Novell, agreed to a settlement at this point because
|
||
they understood that there was
|
||
|
||
0:09:58.730,0:10:01.060
|
||
no copyright infringement in the
|
||
|
||
0:10:01.060,0:10:03.510
|
||
code. So, basically,
|
||
|
||
0:10:03.510,0:10:05.850
|
||
the lawsuit was settled out of court
|
||
|
||
0:10:05.850,0:10:07.150
|
||
in secret for ten years.
|
||
|
||
0:10:07.150,0:10:08.870
|
||
In 2004, a site Groklaw primarily got
|
||
|
||
0:10:11.490,0:10:14.990
|
||
what the actual settlement
|
||
|
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0:10:14.990,0:10:16.120
|
||
was released.
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||
|
||
0:10:16.120,0:10:17.910
|
||
And, well
|
||
|
||
0:10:17.910,0:10:19.560
|
||
USL, AT&T and
|
||
|
||
0:10:19.560,0:10:20.550
|
||
Novell sort of
|
||
|
||
0:10:20.550,0:10:22.190
|
||
was embarrassed,
|
||
|
||
0:10:22.190,0:10:27.060
|
||
which ended up resulting in two distinct releases
|
||
|
||
0:10:27.060,0:10:32.990
|
||
4.4BSD, there is an encumbered version and had USL license
|
||
|
||
0:10:32.990,0:10:37.490
|
||
and AT&T code, and 4.4BSD-Lite, which was completely
|
||
unencumbered
|
||
|
||
0:10:37.490,0:10:39.460
|
||
and became the
|
||
|
||
0:10:39.460,0:10:40.600
|
||
foundation for
|
||
|
||
0:10:40.600,0:10:43.470
|
||
FreeBSD.
|
||
|
||
0:10:43.470,0:10:47.500
|
||
NetBSD, I'm sorry, FreeBSD, it ends right there
|
||
|
||
0:10:49.150,0:10:55.670
|
||
FreeBSD, people with background, only different BSDs
|
||
that came out of 386BSD
|
||
|
||
0:10:55.670,0:11:00.900
|
||
It runs on Intel x86, Itanium, AMD64, Alpha, Sun Ultra
|
||
|
||
0:11:00.900,0:11:05.149
|
||
SPARC and it gives us the neat features of jail, which
|
||
most of us are familiar with,
|
||
|
||
0:11:05.149,0:11:07.420
|
||
mandatory access control as MACH
|
||
|
||
0:11:07.420,0:11:10.830
|
||
and historically, had a very strong TCP/
|
||
|
||
0:11:10.830,0:11:11.750
|
||
IP and SMP performance.
|
||
|
||
0:11:11.750,0:11:16.150
|
||
The original NetBSD, which also came from 386BSD
|
||
|
||
0:11:18.680,0:11:22.200
|
||
Over 50 hardware platforms from a single
|
||
source tree
|
||
|
||
0:11:22.200,0:11:25.520
|
||
and that’s pretty much what it's known for. To be honest
|
||
|
||
0:11:25.520,0:11:31.790
|
||
I mean, I got to admit I'm an Open BSD guy, I was looking for
|
||
a really cool and innovative features for NetBSD and I really
|
||
|
||
0:11:31.790,0:11:32.329
|
||
couldn’t find any.
|
||
|
||
0:11:32.329,0:11:34.940
|
||
so let them hang their head on this.
|
||
|
||
0:11:34.940,0:11:37.160
|
||
Sorry,
|
||
|
||
0:11:37.160,0:11:39.650
|
||
I know people are going to…
|
||
|
||
0:11:39.650,0:11:46.650
|
||
I know the NetBSDers is going to jump me…I can
|
||
handle two of you. Okay? And this is
|
||
|
||
0:11:48.680,0:11:51.490
|
||
a list of the hardware platforms that currently supported on
|
||
|
||
0:11:51.490,0:11:53.820
|
||
including a toaster.
|
||
|
||
|
||
0:11:53.820,0:11:55.000
|
||
|
||
|
||
0:11:55.000,0:11:56.410
|
||
OpenBSD,
|
||
|
||
0:11:56.410,0:11:59.179
|
||
this is one of the old logos, this is the new
|
||
|
||
0:11:59.179,0:12:03.510
|
||
logo. It was forked from NetBSD 1.0, we won't go
|
||
into the history, I know
|
||
|
||
0:12:03.510,0:12:08.929
|
||
most people know it, and it's supported by about
|
||
16 official platforms
|
||
|
||
0:12:08.929,0:12:12.530
|
||
platforms. This is about half of the most popular ones.
|
||
|
||
0:12:12.530,0:12:17.570
|
||
And it comes out with a new release every six months,
|
||
generally, in May and November
|
||
|
||
0:12:17.570,0:12:20.810
|
||
1st, so if you haven’t already, pick a copy, that just came
|
||
|
||
0:12:20.810,0:12:24.880
|
||
out of the foil. It's unofficial model is secure by default
|
||
|
||
0:12:24.880,0:12:31.880
|
||
only what's needed is running on the default
|
||
|
||
0:12:32.750,0:12:35.690
|
||
And, some of their goals
|
||
|
||
0:12:35.690,0:12:38.300
|
||
and features - full disclosure, audits,
|
||
|
||
0:12:38.300,0:12:43.950
|
||
privsep, privilege separation & revocation, chroot jails,
|
||
like FreeBSD,
|
||
|
||
0:12:43.950,0:12:48.910
|
||
random values wherever possible. This is probably
|
||
|
||
0:12:48.910,0:12:52.180
|
||
the most obvious example. ProPolice
|
||
|
||
0:12:52.180,0:12:58.070
|
||
Some other features that they’d given us through
|
||
the years – PF, authpf, CARP, pfsyncd,
|
||
|
||
0:12:58.070,0:13:01.380
|
||
which I think some of these are probably in the
|
||
|
||
0:13:01.380,0:13:08.380
|
||
FreeBSD by now. DragonFlyBSD was a continuation of
|
||
FreeBSD 4.8. Again,
|
||
|
||
0:13:08.760,0:13:11.160
|
||
DragonFlyBSD was
|
||
|
||
0:13:11.160,0:13:15.640
|
||
forked with FreeBSD 4.8 and was intended to basically
|
||
|
||
0:13:15.640,0:13:21.580
|
||
overhaul the SMP features in FreeBSD 6
|
||
and 7..5,6, and 7.
|
||
|
||
0:13:21.580,0:13:25.690
|
||
DragonFly is another example. If you look at their goals,
|
||
it had some really neat technological stuff.
|
||
|
||
0:13:25.690,0:13:28.500
|
||
I can't find any features that really, you
|
||
|
||
0:13:28.500,0:13:31.830
|
||
know, mean anything.
|
||
|
||
0:13:31.830,0:13:33.130
|
||
Of course,
|
||
|
||
0:13:33.130,0:13:36.890
|
||
Tiger is an old I'm sorry, OSX
|
||
|
||
0:13:36.890,0:13:43.890
|
||
It started from the Jolitz project, but it's sort of an inbred
|
||
|
||
0:13:48.870,0:13:53.800
|
||
and then various others spearBSD, ecoBSD
|
||
|
||
0:13:53.800,0:13:58.350
|
||
and other minor BSDs
|
||
|
||
0:13:58.350,0:14:04.130
|
||
That is all about, I wanted to cover kind of the present of
|
||
where we are right now, some of the myths and truths.
|
||
|
||
0:14:04.130,0:14:08.260
|
||
Why is BSD dying? Really, that’s what the title
|
||
|
||
0:14:08.260,0:14:11.750
|
||
of the project and topic is.
|
||
|
||
0:14:11.750,0:14:16.270
|
||
Well, first, because IDC said so.
|
||
|
||
0:14:16.270,0:14:21.480
|
||
Market share for BSD is, right now, at an all time low, under 1%
|
||
|
||
0:14:21.480,0:14:28.480
|
||
And, of course, Netcraft confirms these findings.
|
||
Last place in the SysAdmin networking test, so we all
|
||
|
||
0:14:29.660,0:14:30.930
|
||
know that word, we're just big losers.
|
||
|
||
0:14:30.930,0:14:37.610
|
||
Because open-source projects are giving away free software.
|
||
I mean, we can't possibly make
|
||
|
||
0:14:37.610,0:14:39.310
|
||
money, so that, obviously, means that
|
||
|
||
0:14:39.310,0:14:46.310
|
||
we're dying. And free software is terrible
|
||
|
||
0:14:46.390,0:14:53.390
|
||
We know the insane let me get out.
|
||
Free software equals terrism.
|
||
|
||
0:14:55.120,0:14:57.910
|
||
|
||
|
||
0:14:57.910,0:15:04.910
|
||
Our inability to adapt. As you can see by this graph
|
||
|
||
0:15:09.630,0:15:15.980
|
||
Let's be serious here, people.
|
||
As per FreeBSD network pages per hour search
|
||
|
||
0:15:15.980,0:15:20.520
|
||
We see Windows, obviously I mean, they are way ahead people.
|
||
Come on, they’ve been doing this for a number of what? 15,
|
||
|
||
0:15:20.520,0:15:22.180
|
||
20 years. Linux is second.
|
||
|
||
0:15:22.180,0:15:24.349
|
||
They actually are showing some.
|
||
|
||
0:15:24.349,0:15:29.259
|
||
We presume that someone is doing authentication
|
||
by reading user pages
|
||
|
||
0:15:29.259,0:15:35.450
|
||
The BSD is only for register, so we've got to work
|
||
on that, of course
|
||
|
||
0:15:35.450,0:15:37.030
|
||
Loss of talent.
|
||
|
||
0:15:37.030,0:15:41.410
|
||
FreeBSD has lost 93% of their core developers.
|
||
|
||
0:15:41.410,0:15:45.300
|
||
Okay, come on, guys, let's go.
|
||
|
||
0:15:45.300,0:15:48.030
|
||
But not all is lost.
|
||
|
||
0:15:48.030,0:15:53.600
|
||
Fortunately, a few very small companies still
|
||
use BSD in this age.
|
||
|
||
0:15:53.600,0:15:56.450
|
||
|
||
|
||
0:15:56.450,0:16:02.590
|
||
I know you probably have heard most of these.
|
||
|
||
0:16:02.590,0:16:05.780
|
||
Believe it or not, this is our premier
|
||
|
||
0:16:05.780,0:16:12.780
|
||
sponsor, and some other company that didn’t sponsor us
|
||
|
||
0:16:16.070,0:16:17.560
|
||
|
||
0:16:17.560,0:16:20.070
|
||
I should just end right there.
|
||
|
||
0:16:20.070,0:16:21.870
|
||
because we're the nearest to them
|
||
|
||
0:16:21.870,0:16:28.130
|
||
Seriously, though, the technological challenge that we
|
||
have ahead of us. Virtualization, that’s a big deal
|
||
|
||
0:16:28.130,0:16:29.529
|
||
as far as the market.
|
||
|
||
0:16:29.529,0:16:33.230
|
||
Of course, developers are in the market, so,
|
||
if that happens, that
|
||
|
||
0:16:33.230,0:16:35.370
|
||
happens. Although the end is really, really cool.
|
||
|
||
0:16:35.370,0:16:40.150
|
||
DRM, is obviously evil, yes, I know, I don’t care about
|
||
|
||
0:16:40.150,0:16:41.690
|
||
DRM. Run Dell.
|
||
|
||
0:16:41.690,0:16:43.980
|
||
Right?
|
||
|
||
0:16:43.980,0:16:45.310
|
||
Political challenges
|
||
|
||
0:16:45.310,0:16:48.710
|
||
Now, this has been hard to entertain,
|
||
but I can't read this out in front of
|
||
|
||
0:16:48.710,0:16:50.530
|
||
people. Blobs,
|
||
|
||
0:16:50.530,0:16:52.140
|
||
binary is bad,
|
||
|
||
0:16:52.140,0:16:53.140
|
||
don’t do it
|
||
|
||
0:16:53.140,0:16:56.180
|
||
just smoke in the same crap
|
||
|
||
0:16:56.180,0:16:57.540
|
||
when it says
|
||
|
||
0:16:57.540,0:16:59.590
|
||
NDAs
|
||
|
||
0:16:59.590,0:17:01.900
|
||
and closed documentation.
|
||
|
||
0:17:01.900,0:17:06.460
|
||
How many of us here are actual core developers for
|
||
one of the BSDs?
|
||
|
||
0:17:06.460,0:17:08.159
|
||
Okay, the rest of us, let's help them
|
||
|
||
0:17:08.159,0:17:09.420
|
||
out
|
||
|
||
0:17:09.420,0:17:10.120
|
||
okay
|
||
|
||
0:17:10.120,0:17:12.000
|
||
get in touch with your supplier,
|
||
|
||
0:17:12.000,0:17:16.740
|
||
let's get some documentation to these guys.
|
||
|
||
0:17:16.740,0:17:18.159
|
||
Because without the
|
||
|
||
0:17:18.159,0:17:20.100
|
||
diversity, we have
|
||
|
||
0:17:20.100,0:17:22.220
|
||
unity
|
||
|
||
0:17:22.220,0:17:24.630
|
||
and a common goal.
|
||
|
||
0:17:27.420,0:17:30.090
|
||
Thank you.
|