NYCBUG is now on Facebook
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
NYCBUG announced that it now has a Facebook group. It was started by a couple of concerned NYCBUGgers. The membership is open to all Facebook members and not limited to just the NYC BSD User’s Group (NYCBUG).
If you’re aware of any other BSD related groups or events with their own facebook page, please let me know by leaving a comment below.
How the FreeBSD Project’s Processes Help Companies Build Products
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
George Neville-Neil has written the lead article for the January issue of the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) and the FreeBSD Foundation is the sponsor for this month’s issue. The entire issue is available as a PDF and George’s article is also available in HTML.
From the article’s abstract:
The processes that open source projects use to produce new work and maintain the quality of their code base is a subject that comes up infrequently in discussions of open source. One reason for this is that engineers and programmers are usually loathe to deal with issues that are not directly related to the piece of code or technology that they are working on.
FreeBSD Project receives Bad Code Offset
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
The Bad Code Offsets project of The Alliance for Code Excellence is
“a way to undo the bad code other people have written without actually replacing the bad code. Much like carbon offsets, money used to buy Bad Code Offsets goes towards open-source projects which not only produce good code, but produce software that helps developers build good software”.
The FreeBSD Project was recently added as a supported project and the FreeBSD Foundation will be receiving a check for $500. Thanks to those who suggested the FreeBSD project be added and to the Alliance for supporting good code!
Source: FreeBSD Foundation Blog
EuroBSDCon 2009
Posted by admin on Aug 29, 2009
The U.K. Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) is hosting the EuroBSDCon 2009 in Cambridge from 18-20 September. The conference by many seen as the annual get-together for the European BSD community.
The conference runs over three days starting with many tutorials.
- Tutorial 1: Kirk McKusick’s FreeBSD Overview, and a focus on FileSystems and VM
- Tutorial 2: Building the network you need with PF – Peter Hansteen
- Tutorial 3: SCTP Introduction and Workshop – Randall Stewart
On the second and third day there will be talks on various BSD systems related talks (FreeBSD, NetBSD and PC-BSD).
The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) will be taking exams on these days too.
Check the EuroBSDCon website for prices, directions, time tables ets
Photos of Linuxfest NW 2009
Posted by admin on Aug 28, 2009
James Nixon attended the LinuxFest NW 2009 and uploaded his pictures.
Check the photo’s here or watch the slideshow
Photos from the OSCon 2009 FreeBSD Booth
Posted by admin on Aug 28, 2009
James has uploaded a couple of pictures of the FreeBSD Booth at the OSCon 2009.
View the pictures or the slideshow
Interview with S.P. Zeidler (NetBSD Dev)
Posted by admin on Aug 27, 2009
Here’s the third edition of the “discussions with a NetBSD developer” series. This time, imil spoke to S.P. Zeidler, admin and member of pkgsrc-releng.
The questions:
- For the readers who don’t know you, can you shortly introduce yourself ?
- Why did you choose to run NetBSD ? How long have you been using it ?
- How did you become a NetBSD developer ?
- Do you have an idea of the time you spend working on the NetBSD project daily, weekly, monthly ?
- What is the job of a NetBSD admin ? How many admins are there ? How do you work alltogether ? How do you share the tasks you have to do ?
- What is the hardware infrastructure of the NetBSD project, in terms of hardware and software ? Where are they located?
- As part of the pkgsrc-releng team, can you tell us more about the way pkgsrc releases are organised ? How is a release tested / validated ?
- You told us there were no fun retro arch in the machines administered by the project. I’m wondering then how are pkgsrc releases built (if they are) for those retro archs ? Are the pkgsrc releases cross-compiled ? Provided by third-parties ? Not built ? Does it work the same way for NetBSD releases by themselves ? Are all
- the “fun retro” archs versions cross-compiled ?
- In your professional environment, do you work with NetBSD ? How do you think we should promote NetBSD for wider use within companies ?
For the answer for the above questions, go here (blog.netbsd.org)
- As a conclusion, can you tell us how you forecast NetBSD future ?
PC-BSD Workshop at COSECOL
Posted by admin on Aug 27, 2009
Dru Lavigne will be holding a 90 minute PC-BSD workshop during COSECOL on September 17.
COSECOL (South America) will be held from 14-17 September.
BSD Certification Talk (Audio)
Posted by admin on Aug 12, 2009
Dru Lavigne has uploaded an mp3 version of one of her recent talks at NYCBUG on BSD Certification.
EuroBSDCon 2009 Flyers
Posted by admin on Aug 11, 2009
The EuroBSDCon team has released two new flyers to promote the 2009 event. This year EuroBSDCon takes place 18-20 September in Cambridge, UK.