Show Notes
In a special new year’s episode we take a moment to reflect on the show’s past, its future, and say goodbye to an old friend. Links: Jim Salter — Jim Salter (@jrssnet) is an author, public speaker, small business owner, mercenary sysadmin, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. He got his first real taste of open source by running Apache on his very own dedicated FreeBSD 3.1 server back in 1999, and he's been a fierce advocate of FOSS ever since.
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