FreeBSD: a free UNIX® like Operating System

I’ve been a FreeBSD user since the beginning (and 386BSD before that). I became a committer in 1995 for maintaining the FAQ just after the 2.0 release. I’ve dwelt into many areas (including the kernel and the VFS layer a while ago) but focus mainly on some ports and the NTP software (which I maintain now).

I’m the reason why FreeBSD switched to SGML using the Linuxdoc DTD in 1995 because I converted the FAQ to this format. We’re now using the more versatile DocBook/XML format although some documents are still using the SGML DTD.

You can find there all the different papers and presentations I made:

HOWTO

I’m writing some kind of HOWTO-like document explaining how to setup and install a ZFS-only bootable FreeBSD system.

It can be found here, listing both mirror- and raidz-based setups, although the latter is not currently working.

Papers

Distributed VCS in the context of FreeBSD: presented at both EuroBSDCon 2005 and BSDCan 2006

Full BSDCan paper

BSDCan slides

The EuroBSDCon paper & slides have been superseded by the updated ones for BSDCan.

Recent presentations

As part of the « Autour du Libre » conference in April 2006, set in Brest, FRANCE, I’ve made a presentation about FreeBSD and how it is developed and communication within the project.

PDF and OpenDocument

Older presentations

1. the Linux Expo Conference (1999)

PDF, OpenDocument
and HTML

2. the University of Saint Denis and Lyon (1998)

PDF, HTML and Powerpoint