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By JT Pennington

Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278

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Published December 27, 2018 3:00am

We sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more.

Interview - Kirk McKusick - mckusick@mckusick.com

25 years of FreeBSDHow Kirk got started in BSD, at the very beginningPredicting the FutureHow the code and community grewThe leadership of the project, and how it changed over timeUFS over the years (reading disks from 1982 in 2018)ConferencesThe rise and fall of LinuxThe resurgence of FreeBSD

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