Peter Hansteen

Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, writer and sysadmin based in Bergen, Norway, since 2008 employed by the Norwegian free software consultancy FreeCode AS. He has been tinkering with computers since the mid 1980s, mainly while working to document how the systems work and why they don't, in English as well as his native Norwegian. In 1991 he co-founded Datadokumentasjon AS, a documentation and localization company where he remained chairman and senior consultant until 2008. Peter rediscovered Unixes about the time 386BSD appeared. After a few years on Linux, which included participation in the RFC1149 implementation (2001), he eventually migrated all important bits to OpenBSD and FreeBSD. A long time freenix advocate, he is a member of the BLUG (Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group) core group and current vice president of NUUG (the Norwegian Unix User Group). During recent years a frequent lecturer and tutor with emphasis on OpenBSD and FreeBSD topics, author of several articles and /The Book of PF/ (No Starch Press 2007) and maintains his blogosphere presence at http://bsdly.blogspot.com.