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SEE TEXT ONLY new faces of FreeBSD BY DRU LAVIGNE This column aims to shine a spotlight times Linux, sometimes Windows. on contributors who recently received I've also been involved in sports since a young their commit bit and to introduce age, including 4 years of tennis and cross country them to the FreeBSD community. running in high school, and playing tennis for our In this installment, the spotlight is university team. Since college, I've changed my on Jason Bacon who received his focus to Chinese martial arts, cycling, XC skiing ports bit in November, Koichiro Iwao and sea kayaking. (I live a few blocks from a beau- tiful stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline park land who received his ports bit in March, on Milwaukee's south side. ) Sean Fagan who received his src bit in Philosophically, the closest label that would fit April, Vincenzo Maffione who me is Buddhist/Taoist. I believe in complete open- received his src bit in March, ness, destruction of the ego, and that any hint of Fernando Apesteguía who received anger is a sign post pointing directly toward room his ports commit in March, Tom Jones for personal growth. who received his src bit in April, and • Koichiro: I was born in Eric Turgeon who received his ports Kyushu Island located south- bit in March. west of Japan and I'm still in Kyushu. I am an upstream developer of xrdp which offers Tell us a bit about yourself, your background, Unix-like operating systems a and your interests. graphical login to a remote • Jason: I've been into computers since high client via Microsoft Remote school, when I took the very first computer class Desktop Protocol. I'm working on an xrdp project our school ever offered. I was immediately hooked on improving FreeBSD compatibility and handling by the stimulating challenges and immediate feed- non-ASCII characters such as CJK. I'm also inter- back inherent in computer programming. Onto ested in desktop virtualization. You should already college, I chose computer science over chemistry know how useful GNU screen and tmux are. in the 11th hour for my undergrad major. Sort of Desktop virtualization will provide GUI-like version fell into a master’s program for logistical reasons of GNU screen. You can resume an existing immediately after. After teaching computer sci- remote session from everywhere over the net- ence full time for a few years, I pursued a PhD work. program in biology, but was forced to withdraw • Sean: I've been interested due to family responsibilities. I'm still a biologist at in Unix-like systems since I heart, but my computer science background has decided to write a PDP-11 served me well and I've managed to find reward- simulator in C instead of using ing work as a developer and systems manager. an over-loaded RSTS/E system I now support research computing and high- for the college assembly lan- performance computing at UW Milwaukee, work- guage course I was in. ing with researchers in many fields, but mainly I went from college to work engineering and genomics. for The Santa Cruz Operation, and spent most of I'm a staunch operating system and language my time there working on the XENIX port of agnostic and will always campaign against religios- Microsoft's C Compiler. I played with some kernel ity in computing. Self-limiting idealism hurts every- aspects (adding a simple form of ACL, just to see one from end-users to sysadmins. I always look if I could), and when SCO came out with their openly at alternatives and choose the most effi- SysVr3.2-based system, which for POSIX-compli- cient tool for the job. Sometimes it's BSD, some- ance had job-control support, I set about making 24 FreeBSD Journal it work (which also involved porting tcsh from BSD puter and move it to the local hackerspace, 57North to SysVr3.2 and getting emacs to work with it). I Hacklab. Other times, if the weather is nice, I go fur- was sending any patches to the open-source code ther afield and set up my computer in a tent. back, and I also started writing some simple, low- • Eric: I am the founder of GhostBSD level libc routines for the then-new 386BSD. This and started to work for iXsystems last led to me working for Cygnus, which meant work- September as an Automation Engineer ing more directly with open source, although it for the QA department. I am married didn't get that name for a while. to a wonderful woman named Karine, • Vincenzo: I'm a Software who is more than patient about me Engineer and I live in Pisa, Italy. spending time working on GhostBSD, Currently, I'm a last year PhD and I have one son named Samuel who student at the University of turned six last January. Like his father, he likes Pisa. My research interests computers and technology and also is a fanatic of include fast userspace net- Minecraft. I currently live in Dieppe city in New working, network virtualiza- Brunswick, Canada. I speak French, English, and tion, and kernel network driv- Chiac (French and English mixed together). ers. But most of all I love programming and oper- I did not finish high school but I am a curious guy ating systems. In my spare time I also enjoy playing that likes technology and am passionate about Unix, piano, biking around and cooking. BSD, and desktop software. I learned C, shell script, • Fernando: My name is and Python, but Python became my language of Fernando Apesteguía. I'm a choice for almost everything that does not need to software developer living in scale like C. I learn everything as I need it, so my Madrid (Spain). After I got my knowledge of FreeBSD, Python, C, and even for my Master’s Degree in Computer new career gets better as time passes. Science, I moved to Holland to I like to play with my son and appreciate having work for ESA's YES2 project. It quality time with my wife. I love to read history, pro- was extremely cool and we gramming books, and the bible. I love to be involved were even granted a Guinness World Record for in the City of Grace church and to have evening par- the longest man-made structure ever deployed in ties with our circle of friends. I like mountain biking space. There I wrote software for the onboard on crazy trails, and train with PowerBuilder, but late- computer running QNX. After that, I went back to ly, I have been lazy with that. I love metal music and Spain and joined Open Sistemas. Here, we use playing guitar when I have time. open source software to develop our solutions. I usually do C/C++ programming in Linux using Qt How did you first learn about FreeBSD and and DBus for IPC. what about FreeBSD interested you? On the personal side, I live with my girlfriend • Jason: I've been involved in Unix development who suffers from my lack of free time. I enjoy trav- since before FreeBSD existed and have been run- eling as much as I can and practicing martial arts. I ning both BSD and Linux systems uninterrupted hold a 3rd DAN black belt in karate, which I've since the mid-1990s. I love FreeBSD's long tradition been practicing for the last 25 years, and I'm a of solid performance and stability, as well as the black belt in other disciplines like SAMBO and Self devotion to clean and systematic management and Defense. software deployment. The FreeBSD ports system • Tom: I am a researcher at has few peers in terms of its size, capabilities, and the University of Aberdeen in flexibility. I can set up a FreeBSD system from the North East of Scotland, scratch to serve most purposes in under an hour, where I work on Internet trans- knowing that I'll have very little trouble with it port and standardization. For from that day on. the past few years I have been • Koichiro: I've been using FreeBSD for more working on replacing the than 10 years and remember FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 as Socket API with something my first FreeBSD. I started using FreeBSD as net- modern and adaptable in the EU NEAT Project work gateways and routers when I was a college (https://www.neat-project.org/). student. ipfw has simple syntax and is easy to Sometimes I have to get out from behind my com- May/June 2018 25 new faces of FreeBSD understand. Also, dummynet is a great tool to con- standardization credo is “rough consensus and run- trol traffic and emulate real-world networks. To ning code” and it helps if there are implementa- sum up, network features interested me in tions for as many platforms as possible. FreeBSD. There was talk of porting to a BSD operating • Sean: After the first version of Linux kept pan- system and I asked (well, maybe I demanded) to be icking when using telnet, I instead switched to involved. Porting work started in virtual machines 386BSD for my personal computer, and that led to on my desktop, but soon I had acquired some sec- the other BSDs, and, eventually, focusing on ond-hand servers to build and run FreeBSD. FreeBSD a couple of months after it started. FreeBSD was the operating system of choice for The source-distributable BSDs were still very new the port because of the famously excellent TCP at the time, and there was a lot of work that inter- stack.
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