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Episode 103: Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens

2015-08-19

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Interview - Bryan Cantrill - bryan@joyent.com / @bcantrill

BSD and Solaris history, illumos, dtrace, Joyent, pkgsrc, various topics (and rants)

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