2026-03-21 –, Room A
Virtualisation technology has gone a long way. It began as early as the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS, and was even available as Open Source back then. On modern hardware though, the technology exploded in the mid-2000s, and has become a new normal in the form of containers since 2014. BSD systems have both pioneered and lagged behind on different aspects, between innovation and catch up with the latest industry standards. The gang of NetBSD, EdgeBSD, and smolBSD projects is no stranger to this: coming from the desert, it is now proudly lining up for drag races to the boot finish line, still plundering ideas and patches all over to solve the case.
Pierre Pronchery is a NetBSD developer since 2012, FreeBSD developer since 2025, and currently serving on the Board of Directors for the NetBSD Foundation. He regularly contributes to different sides of either projects, from kernel patches to software packaging, or contributing to public events. His passion for Operating System development took shape with the DeforaOS Project since 2001, which led him to research the Future Internet as well.
As founder and CEO of Defora Networks GmbH in Germany, he performs IT-Security consulting and development services around all of these projects, most notably with the FreeBSD Foundation since 2023.