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 Tag: video
Robert Watson - How a large scale opensource project works
(81 Mb, 45 minutes)Source: Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
 Added: 27 May 2008
 Tags: fosdem, fosdem2008, presentation, freebsd project, robert watson
 
 
		The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most
		successful open source operating system projects,
		seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From
		the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core
		router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded
		appliances, you can't use a networked computer for
		ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times.
		 
		Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and
		reliability comes from the nature of its development
		organization -- driven by a hundreds of highly
		skilled volunteers, from high school students to
		university professors. And unlike most open source
		projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who
		have been working on the same source base for over
		twenty years.
		 
		But how does this organization work? Who pays the
		bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the
		documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots?
		And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach
		agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel
		architecture?
		 
		This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45
		minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what
		makes FreeBSD run.
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