The presentations from the recent MeetBSD 2010 (Cracow, Poland) conference are now available on the BSD Conferences Youtube Chanel. The following videos are all in HD quality and most are in English, though a few are in Polish. Dru Lavigne – Update on BSD Certification Hans Peter Selasky – The new USB stack in FreeBSD Jakub Klama – [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2010
1. FreeBSD East Coast Mirror Yesterday we posted the FreeBSD Foundation’s turns to NYI press release, Steven Kreuzer who was directly involved in the project has put more details on his website: Pretty much since the time that The NYC BSD Users Group was formed, The NY Internet Company have donated a full cabinet and a 10 Mb internet connection [...]
Continue reading...9. August 2010
Here is some info and details of upcoming FreeBSD related conferences and events. KyivBSD 2010 Conference On 25 Septempter the annual KyivBSD Conference will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. It’s mainly aimed at FreeBSD and PC-BSD users and developers. More info: http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua (RU) (EN translation) (via) BSD-Day 2010 BSD-Day@2010 will be held at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary on 20 November 2010. The [...]
Continue reading...19. July 2010
The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG). This bi-annual event [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2010
I Running old binaries on -current Did you know you can old FreeBSD binaries on recent versions? As strange as it may sound, all FreeBSD versions have an ABI compatibility with previous versions, and you can run files compiled years ago. However, there seems to be a little problem now with running 1.0 packages on Current [...]
Continue reading...29. May 2010
Open source server and storage solution provider iXsystems will once again host MeetBSD California. This year, MeetBSD will be an informal 2-Day BSD Camp taking place at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California on November 5th and 6th. MeetBSD California promises to be a fun and engaging plunge into the BSD operating system world, just as [...]
Continue reading...21. May 2010
With more and more services and applications running on your average server, upgrading the operating system and application software becomes trickier and larger service windows are needed performing these upgrades. Over the last four years Paul Schenkeveld (PSconsult) has searched for means and methods to keep software up to date with minimum downtime and inconvenience for [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2010
Paul Schenkeveld: Minimizing service windows on servers using NanoBSD + ZFS + jails AsiaBSDCon 2010 paper session. Abstract: With more and more services and applications running on your average server, upgrading the operating system and application software becomes trickier and larger service windows are needed performing these upgrades. Over the last four years the author has searched for means [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2010
George Neville-Neil: Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters on non-X86 Architectures AsiaBSDCon 2010 paper session. Abstract: Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters provide programmers and systems integrators with the ability to gather accurate, low level, information about the performance of their code, both at the user and kernel levels. Until recently these counters were only available on Intel and AMD chips but [...]
Continue reading...10. May 2010
Massimiliano Stucchi: BSD in the routing industry AsiaBSDCon 2010 paper session. Abstract: The BSD family has always been very well known for its robust network stack, hence it has been widely used in many different fields and applications. In the ISP market, though, the situation is totally different, and solutions employing *BSD operating systems are often discarded in [...]
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23. August 2010
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