The great thing about Theo is that he is doing OpenBSD for a looong time (25 years) and is not switching to something else. It is extremely complicated to focus and do one thing for such a long time. Respect to Theo !
The OpenBSD Dev team is awesome. Just a few people developing high quality software of decades for "free". These guys are real hackers. And of course, Theo de Raadt is a great team leader. The Miles Davis of software development ;)
@@babyboomertwerkteam5662 In retrospect, nothing inherently wrong, but from a UK perspective...yeah... I guarantee that that Irish guy thought the same; same norms there.
@@smorrow believe it or not i didnt mind... yep trousers for formal interviews.. but this was a chat an informal discussion so he could have arrived in a pair of speedos and I would have still interviewed him :)
Great list of questions, well done! I figured I'd watch a few minutes and be done, but it got better as time went on. I came away with a much better impression of Theo than I did reading what others had to say about him. Thank you.
Glad you liked it if you have other questions that would be good to ask in another interview post them and Ill try to do a follow up at some stage,... Cheers,
the time stamps are kinda weird. here is some different ones. 1:18 what inspired you to start OpenBSD all those years ago? 2:54 who was your first colleagues who hopped on board of OpenBSD? 4:54 who is the most influential person you looked up to? 5:35 what is your favorite book that you found the most interesting? 6:23 what books do you recommend for aspiring computer scientist? 7:02 what is it like being the leader of OpenBSD? 8:00 do you mentor the groups or do you let them do there own thing? 9:09 what is your favorite feature of OpenBSD? 10:00 what is the most difficult things OpenBSD faces? 14:34 do debug tools get thrown off with ASL and KARL and other things in place? 16:16 what is your proudest day at OpenBSD? (no answer) 18:38 what was the hardest day at OpenBSD? (no answer) 18:53 do you have any favorite developers? 19:17 what is your favorite security features? 20:20 what do you believe is the core of OpenBSD that you must preserve? 26:13 is there anything about the OpenBSD project that you would like to change? 26:48 is there any troll comments that stick with you? 27:15 how do you like to deal with trolls? 27:41 where do you think more developers should be allocated? 28:41 what OS do you run on your PC? 28:48 what desktop environment do you run? (no answer) 29:19 if you had to run another OS what would it be? 29:28 what things from other OS do you thing OpenBSD should incorporate? 30:17 do you think there will be OpenBSD phones? 31:21 what can company's do to make hardware support more available for open source projects? 33:28 do other opensource OS cooperate with others well? (topic shifts from question) 33:43 when there is a security flaw that OpenBSD already patched. do you rub it in others faces? 38:18 what is the new implementation of WXRX you found? 42:09 what is the OpenBSD-Foundation, and how dose it work with OpenBSD? 43:30 what is the reason for you to start the OpenBSD-Foundation? 45:32 how dose OpenBSD deal with hard decisions? 49:40 what is a hackathon, and what do you achieve? 51:16 how would i host my own hackathon if i wanted to start one? 54:03 what do you wish computer industry did not have? (no answer) 55:13 what would you like to see in the whole computer industry? (no answer) 55:29 what would you like others to know about you? (topic shifts from question) 55:43 what would you like others to know about OpenBSD?
Adding watch the Blues Brothers to my to do list ... BTW there is a cool Blues Brothers Puffy Art in OpenBSDs Art gallery on their project website... (probably irrelevant to the point you are making ... all the same but hey ...
@@tomsmyth7085 SPOILERS: That was just some good-humoured slagging over the background noise in the video. This is the scene I was referencing: ua-cam.com/video/pVmK0agsUmI/v-deo.html
@@ropersonline Awesome f**king awesome ... well served ... well served :) yeah it is amazing how in the moment you dont hear the noise because our brains ability to focus on someones voice... but the mic does not lie about my choice of venue... I wouldn't mind but I could have picked a different room... on the opposite side of the building... :) ... thanks for the feedback :)
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ― Alert Einstein
This sounds like a great source of knowledge but I'm having trouble to understand everything due to: - Some terminology or concepts - The accents of the guys - The reverberation of the room
Yeah Audio recording was challenging ... sorry for that there was alot of noise filters used to clean it up which would impact the understanding of the accents... (canadian and Irish) ... but I hope the content overall made up for it I will pay closer attention to the Audio setup (there was a light rail way system being tested every few minutes passing the room I was in I didnt notice it at the time but it was really aparent in the raw recording ...
Yeah Sorry about that we did our best to clean it up ... there was alot of background noise ( a Light rail system was under test outside :( unfortunately
What exactly is it? At 21:39 the interviewer's hand disappears behind it, so apparently it's not being projected on the wall. Apparently it's a post-production graphic, not something that was visible in the room at the time, though why it was angled in that particular way to appear as a poster is strange.
@@serene_shepherd I was just brightening up the background... just playing around... and what better way then to put a graphic of an OpenBSD Poster and apply a Perspective Transform on it so that it kind of appears to be on the wall ... but yeah I dont think Ill get an Oscar for Special Effects :)
@@tomsmyth7085 I like it! I think you fooled a lot of people into thinking it was a magic poster (even if that wasn't necessarily your intention) and it's a nice touch. Industrial Light & Magic, eat your hearts out.
Hey Callison It is not that sensational sorry it is not an antifa sticker it is actually an AntiBASHist sticker ( a joke about people who write shell scripts assuming they would be run in a bash shell as opposed to c shell, k shell , or another shell... hope you liked the video ....
The great thing about Theo is that he is doing OpenBSD for a looong time (25 years) and is not switching to something else. It is extremely complicated to focus and do one thing for such a long time. Respect to Theo !
The OpenBSD Dev team is awesome. Just a few people developing high quality software of decades for "free". These guys are real hackers. And of course, Theo de Raadt is a great team leader. The Miles Davis of software development ;)
One of the best Theo interviews I’ve watched in a while. Thank you very much for this video!
Glad you liked it ... Cheers...
THEO...THEO...THEO!!!
This was a treasure to me. Thank you for the video, and thank you to Theo for taking the time for the interview!
IKR ;D
He could have taken the time to put some trousers on.
@@smorrow what's wrong with shorts?
@@babyboomertwerkteam5662 In retrospect, nothing inherently wrong, but from a UK perspective...yeah... I guarantee that that Irish guy thought the same; same norms there.
@@smorrow believe it or not i didnt mind... yep trousers for formal interviews.. but this was a chat an informal discussion so he could have arrived in a pair of speedos and I would have still interviewed him :)
Thank you for a really nice video. Very nice to hear Theo´s opinions. I don´t know what it is, but OpenBSD just "seems right".
I was not expecting the “poster” on the wall to suddenly change :-0
Thank you Tom! I'm truly sorry about the way other commenters are treating you - you handle yourself well! Fantastico : 3
Thanks Ryan, It would be amusing for commentators to say them to my face...
Great list of questions, well done! I figured I'd watch a few minutes and be done, but it got better as time went on. I came away with a much better impression of Theo than I did reading what others had to say about him. Thank you.
Glad you liked it if you have other questions that would be good to ask in another interview post them and Ill try to do a follow up at some stage,... Cheers,
the time stamps are kinda weird. here is some different ones.
1:18 what inspired you to start OpenBSD all those years ago?
2:54 who was your first colleagues who hopped on board of OpenBSD?
4:54 who is the most influential person you looked up to?
5:35 what is your favorite book that you found the most interesting?
6:23 what books do you recommend for aspiring computer scientist?
7:02 what is it like being the leader of OpenBSD?
8:00 do you mentor the groups or do you let them do there own thing?
9:09 what is your favorite feature of OpenBSD?
10:00 what is the most difficult things OpenBSD faces?
14:34 do debug tools get thrown off with ASL and KARL and other things in place?
16:16 what is your proudest day at OpenBSD?
(no answer) 18:38 what was the hardest day at OpenBSD?
(no answer) 18:53 do you have any favorite developers?
19:17 what is your favorite security features?
20:20 what do you believe is the core of OpenBSD that you must preserve?
26:13 is there anything about the OpenBSD project that you would like to change?
26:48 is there any troll comments that stick with you?
27:15 how do you like to deal with trolls?
27:41 where do you think more developers should be allocated?
28:41 what OS do you run on your PC?
28:48 what desktop environment do you run?
(no answer) 29:19 if you had to run another OS what would it be?
29:28 what things from other OS do you thing OpenBSD should incorporate?
30:17 do you think there will be OpenBSD phones?
31:21 what can company's do to make hardware support more available for open source projects?
33:28 do other opensource OS cooperate with others well?
(topic shifts from question) 33:43 when there is a security flaw that OpenBSD already patched. do you rub it in others faces?
38:18 what is the new implementation of WXRX you found?
42:09 what is the OpenBSD-Foundation, and how dose it work with OpenBSD?
43:30 what is the reason for you to start the OpenBSD-Foundation?
45:32 how dose OpenBSD deal with hard decisions?
49:40 what is a hackathon, and what do you achieve?
51:16 how would i host my own hackathon if i wanted to start one?
54:03 what do you wish computer industry did not have?
(no answer) 55:13 what would you like to see in the whole computer industry?
(no answer) 55:29 what would you like others to know about you?
(topic shifts from question) 55:43 what would you like others to know about OpenBSD?
Listening to this reminded me of the Blues Brothers movie. Those who've watched it will know why.
Adding watch the Blues Brothers to my to do list ... BTW there is a cool Blues Brothers Puffy Art in OpenBSDs Art gallery on their project website... (probably irrelevant to the point you are making ... all the same but hey ...
@@tomsmyth7085 SPOILERS: That was just some good-humoured slagging over the background noise in the video.
This is the scene I was referencing: ua-cam.com/video/pVmK0agsUmI/v-deo.html
@@ropersonline Awesome f**king awesome ... well served ... well served :) yeah it is amazing how in the moment you dont hear the noise because our brains ability to focus on someones voice... but the mic does not lie about my choice of venue... I wouldn't mind but I could have picked a different room... on the opposite side of the building... :) ... thanks for the feedback :)
@@tomsmyth7085 It's a great interview and video regardless. Thanks for making it.
Did a quick check on this, Arch Linux is using OpenBSD's portable version of openssh and it is up to date.
JFYI, every operating system uses OpenBSD's SSH implementation :))
Thank you for the talk :)
you are most welcome... thanks for the feedback
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
― Alert Einstein
True that... @CPCNW ...He also said of modeling systems should make a system model as simple as possible but no simpler :)
my recommendation to interviewers would be not to ask question like "what was the best/worse ..:?" but rather question who go deeper
Man he's s as cool as I thought he'd be.
🐡 Thanks for interviewing and posting
35:35 the "enabled by default" strategy
The legend
Your the legend being the 69th comment
This sounds like a great source of knowledge but I'm having trouble to understand everything due to:
- Some terminology or concepts
- The accents of the guys
- The reverberation of the room
Yeah Audio recording was challenging ... sorry for that there was alot of noise filters used to clean it up which would impact the understanding of the accents... (canadian and Irish) ... but I hope the content overall made up for it I will pay closer attention to the Audio setup (there was a light rail way system being tested every few minutes passing the room I was in I didnt notice it at the time but it was really aparent in the raw recording ...
The audio is extremely horrible.
Yeah Sorry about that we did our best to clean it up ... there was alot of background noise ( a Light rail system was under test outside :( unfortunately
I thought that was a real poster, until 15:35. =)
26:50 Theo on trolls; use "all approaches" ! #pufferix
:D :D
Why can't I buy that poster in the background? Please take my money.
What exactly is it? At 21:39 the interviewer's hand disappears behind it, so apparently it's not being projected on the wall. Apparently it's a post-production graphic, not something that was visible in the room at the time, though why it was angled in that particular way to appear as a poster is strange.
@@serene_shepherd I was just brightening up the background... just playing around... and what better way then to put a graphic of an OpenBSD Poster and apply a Perspective Transform on it so that it kind of appears to be on the wall ... but yeah I dont think Ill get an Oscar for Special Effects :)
@@tomsmyth7085 I like it! I think you fooled a lot of people into thinking it was a magic poster (even if that wasn't necessarily your intention) and it's a nice touch. Industrial Light & Magic, eat your hearts out.
One could buy it many, many years ago. You're just to young, sorry :)
Antifa sticker, really?
Hey Callison It is not that sensational sorry it is not an antifa sticker it is actually an AntiBASHist sticker ( a joke about people who write shell scripts assuming they would be run in a bash shell as opposed to c shell, k shell , or another shell... hope you liked the video ....
@@tomsmyth7085 Oh, my bad. Thanks for clarifying.
Bad audio, trash
The Audio was bad alright hopefully the content made up for it ...