svn commit: r53573 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors
Benedict Reuschling <[email protected]>
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Author: bcr
Date: Sat Nov 9 20:11:13 2019
New Revision: 53573
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53573
Log:
Add an entry for Kurt Lidl in the "In Memoriam" section.
Obtained from: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/in-memory-of-kurt-lidl/
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Sat Nov 9 19:15:25 2019 (r53572)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Sat Nov 9 20:11:13 2019 (r53573)
@@ -4,6 +4,31 @@
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<listitem>
+ <para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para>
+
+ <para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a
+ project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly
+ after personalized license plates became available in Maryland,
+ he got "BSDWZRD".</para>
+
+ <para>He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the
+ conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer
+ in October 2015.</para>
+
+ <para>Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was
+ &man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to
+ avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and
+ enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces
+ of the FreeBSD infrastructure.</para>
+
+ <para>Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516
+ <link xlink:href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2516">"A Method
+ for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"</link>, and the
+ USENIX paper <link
+ xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-winter-1994-technical-conference/drinking-firehose-multicast-usenet-news">"Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News"</link>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)</para>
<para>Frank had been around the project since the
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