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
PC-BSD – Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a reality – Kris Moore
Posted by admin on May 16, 2009
FreeBSD has a reputation for its rock-solid reliability, and top-notch performance in the server world, but is noticeably absent when it comes to the vast market of desktop computing.
Why is this? FreeBSD offers many, if not almost all of the same open-source packages and software that can be found in the more popular Linux desktop distributions, yet even with the speed and reliability FreeBSD offers, a relative few number of users are deploying it on their desktops.
In this presentation we will take a look at some of the reasons why FreeBSD has not been as widely adopted in the desktop market as it has on the server side. Several of the desktop weaknesses of FreeBSD will be shown, along with how we are trying to fix these short-comings through a desktopcentric version of FreeBSD, known as PC-BSD. We will also take a look at the package management system employed by all open-source operating systems alike, and some of the pitfalls it brings, which may hinder widespread desktop adoption.
This talk was done at AsiaBSDCon 2009.
Mail system for distributed network – A. Zakharchenko
Posted by admin on May 16, 2009
EuroBSDCon 2009 – Call for papers
Posted by admin on May 15, 2009
EuroBSDCon 2009 – Call for Papers
9th European BSD Conference
September 18 – 20, 2009
University of Cambridge, UK
http://2009.eurobsdcon.org/
Introduction
The European BSD Community is once again gathering for EuroBSDcon. In
2009, we invite you to join us in Cambridge, England for the latest in
discussion, dissemination and development of material from the many
BSDs and their related communities. This, the ninth European BSD
conference is a great opportunity to present new ideas to the
community and to meet some of the developers behind the different
BSDs. The two day conference program (September 19 – 20) will be
complemented by a tutorial day preceding the conference (Sept 18).
Call for Papers
The Conference is inviting authors to submit innovative and original
papers not submitted to other European conferences on the
applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security
of BSD-derived operating systems. Investigations on economic aspects
regarding the operation of BSD systems are also welcome. Topics of
interest for the EuroBSD Conference 2009 include, but are not limited
to:
application development and deployment
device drivers
security and safe coding practices
methods others should know about
system administration: techniques and tools of the trade
operational and economic aspects
Prospective authors of contributions to the technical program are
requested to submit an abstract viahttp://2009.eurobsdcon.org/. All
submissions will be acknowledged. Presentations may last from 15 to 45
minutes – please indicate how long you would like. This is the initial
call for papers; a more focussed call based on initial accepted
submissions will follow in March 2009. We will begin accepting talks
early in 2009. Authors of accepted submissions should provide a full
paper for publication in the conference proceedings and give
permission to the organizers to publish the results in the printed
proceedings and on the conference web site at www.eurobsdcon.org
Call for Tutorial Proposals
Selected tutorials on practical and problem-solving aspects of
BSD-derived operating systems will be offered on the day before the
Conference. The tutorials will be presented by speakers who have wide
experience in developing and administering the different BSDs.
Potential tutorial themes could include, but are not limited to:
Safe coding practices to provide secure solutions
System load testing and tuning
BSD in a large network
Solving sets of problems
If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please contact the
organisers on eurobsdcon@ukuug.org with what you’re thinking. Initial
exploratory conversations are as welcome as full proposals.
Sponsorship Opportunities
We are seeking companies or institutions to sponsor various elements
of the conference in order to keep delegate fees as low as possible.
Sponsorship opportunities include: paying for a speaker’s travel or
accommodation; providing bursaries for delegates who cannot pay the
conference fee themselves; sponsoring catering, lunches, or the
conference dinner. All sponsors will be listed in the conference
proceedings and included on our website with a link back to your site.
You will also have the opportunity to provide literature for
distribution in delegate packs. Please contact the UKUUG Secretariat
(office@ukuug.org) to discuss the possibilities or see
http://www.eurobsdcon.org/.
Important Dates
Final abstract deadline: May 31st 2009
Final tutorial deadline: May 31st
Final papers due: August 1st
Tutorial day: September 18
Conference: September 19 – 20
For more, see http://www.eurobsdcon.org/.
The OpenBSD foundation, two years later (interview)
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
On July 25th, 2007 the OpenBSD Foundation was announced. Kenneth Westerback (krw@), one of the foundation directors, gave a talk at OpenCONabout the history of, reasons for and work done by the foundation. Undeadly spoke with him about the foundation.
In its almost two year history, the OpenBSD foundation has received a few large donations from well known companies as Google, HP and Mozilla. These donations are used to fund development in the broadest sense: they pay for hackathons, provide infrastructure (build machines etc.) and get developers’ hands on laptops or exotic machines and peripherals.
Videos from DCBSDCon posted
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
8 videos from the first DCBSDCon are now available in the BSDConferencesYouTube channel.
- Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs
- Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD
- Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD
- Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis
- Epitome, Marco Peereboom
- Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps Dzonson
- OpenBSD vs SMP, Threading, and Concurrency, Ted Unangst
- A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
Dru Lavigne’s Scale Talk
Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009
Dru Lavigne’s talk at SCALE 2009 is available from the SCALE website as mp3 and PDF
BSD Training and Certification with devGuide.net
Posted by admin on Mar 31, 2009
It’s now possible to do the BSD Certification exam at more and more open source / BSD conferences and meetings. Recently, devGuide.net ltd has started BSD training courses.- BSD Essentials Training for Certification – London - 20 April – 24 April 2009
- BSD Essentials Training for Certification – Hamburg - 4 May – 08 May 2009
- BSD Essentials Training for Certification- London - 8 June – 12 June 2009
- BSD Essentials Training for Certification – Amsterdam - 27 July – 31 July 2009
You can find these dates on the BSD Calendar.
Links: BSD Certification | BSD Certification wiki