EuroBSDCon 2009
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
EuroBSDcon 2009 will take place on Friday 18th – Sunday 20th September at the University of Cambridge, UK
A day of tutorials will be followed by 2 days of conference talks covering a wide variety of BSD related topics. This is the European BSD Community’s annual event to meet, share and interact across the projects and between friends.
This year’s subjects are:
- ISC and *BSD
- OpenBSD malloc
- How FreeBSD finds oil
- NetBSD’s LVM
- faster packets in OpenBSD
- Wireless Mesh networks
- Kirk McKusick’s FreeBSD Guide
… and more. The full talk list and schedule: http://2009.euroBSDcon.org
Discounted Early Bird registration runs until 2nd September.
EuroBSDcon 2009 : September 18-20th, Cambridge, England.
http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/
FOSDEM 2010
Posted by admin on Jul 21, 2009
The dates of FOSDEM 2010 have been confirmed: 6-7 February 2010 in Bruxelles.
FOSDEM Dates and other BSD Conference dates can be found on the BSD Events Calendar
FreeBSD 8.0 Beta1 Released
Posted by admin on Jul 7, 2009
The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule for the other ‘major events’:
- BETA2: July 13, 2009
- BETA3: July 20, 2009
- RC1: July 27, 2009
- RC2: August 17, 2009
- RELEASE:August 31, 2009
People with the resources to do so (test machines…) are encouraged to give 8.0-BETA1 a try. At this point it is not quite ready for production systems but mostly because there is still some ongoing work in a few areas that may cause some changes in things like ABI/API. Debugging support (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As far as we know there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes caused by ongoing work. If you find problems they can be reported through the normal Gnats based PR system or posted to the mailing lists.
More details van MD5 checksums can be found on the release statement