svn commit: r53573 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors

Benedict Reuschling bcr at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 9 20:11:14 UTC 2019


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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