Peter Hansteen

Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, sysadmin and writer from Bergen, Norway. Realizing that his rock'n'roll career was going nowhere, he started tinkering with computers in the mid 1980s, and rediscovered Unixes about the time 386BSD appeared. By a natural progression of real-world challenges and a need to find useful solutions, he ended up with a strong preference for open source in general and OpenBSD in particular. A longtime freenix advocate, he is a member of the BLUG (Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group) core group and a former vice president of NUUG (the Norwegian Unix User Group, the local USENIX sister organization).

During recent years he has been a frequent lecturer and tutor with emphasis on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, author of several articles and <a href="http://nostarch.com/pf2.htm">The Book of PF</a> (No Starch Press 2007, 2nd edition November 2010).

He writes an occasionally slashdotted blog at <a href="http://bsdly.blogspot.com/">http://bsdly.blogspot.com/</a> centering on sanity in IT (or really the lack of it) and works with the Unix and infrastructure team at Evry ASA, Norway's and Scandinavia's dominant IT services company.