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"Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace" is a true crime story covering the late 80s/early 90s era of hacking in the US, and a conflict[0] between two prominent hacker groups of the time - LOD[1] and MOD[2] - which mostly consisted of smart teenage kids who were just obsessed with computers and telephone networks. It's unquestionably one of my favourite books.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hacker_War

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Doom_(hacking)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception

Bryan Cantrill's USENIX talk - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

He gives a history of SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris up to the Oracle acquisition, and then onto post acquisition and the creation of illumos. It's a brilliant talk and a must-watch for any Unix enthusiast or historian. Bryan is an incredibly engaging speaker.

At that time $8500 was more than double the price BCH was trading at on all other exchanges. A human buying 95 at that price differential isn't just irrational - it's insane.

The FreeBSD Ports Collection[1] is the main means of installing 3rd party software on FreeBSD. Precompiled packages are available, too. You can view a list of available ports on FreshPorts[2]. Of course you can always just compile and build your own software if you choose.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html [2] http://www.freshports.org/categories.php