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Copyright © 1999 Brett Taylor

NEWS AND RELEASES

First annual FreeBSD Conference and Expo

Concord, CA (USA), June 18: Jordan K. Hubbard announced FreeBSDCON '99, the first annual FreeBSD Conference and Expo, to be held October 19-21 in Berkeley, CA. The speaker program is still tentative, but several prominent users are slated so far. Jordan Hubbard will deliver the keynote address "The Future of FreeBSD".

The conference will be preceded by a two-day tutorial October 17-18 on the BSD kernel internals pesented by BSD guru Kirk McKusick. Registration for the tutorial is separate from the conference.

BSD users form group in Orlando

Steve Youngblood wrote to tell about the launch of BUGO: BSD Users Group of Orlando (Central Florida, USA). The group officially started June 19. You can get in touch with the group via the web page or by email bsdugo@yahoo.com.

Spare CPU cycles mysteriously abducted by aliens

NetBSD joins the other *BSDs with pre-compiled clients on several architectures for the SETI@Home Project project. By all accounts, a hardware floating point accelerator is very useful if you want to run the clients. The *BSD groups are:

Polish language mailing list for OpenBSD

Karol Makowski has created a mailing list for Polish language users of OpenBSD. You may subscribe to the list by sending an email with an empty subject line and the content "subscribe OpenBSD" to OpenBSD-request@hack.pl.

BSD IN THE PRESS

FreeBSD in Ireland

June 6 - Michael Doyle plugs FreeBSD in an article for the Public Communications Centre while being interviewed about being the system administrator for Co-operation Ireland.

Another license comparison

June 13 - 32BitsOnline has an article comparing the GPL and the BSD style licenses. It's a generally fair comparison.

Life beyond Linux

June 16 - David Cartwright gives a discussion of FreeBSD in this article, showing that there are alternative free OSes other than Linux.

Apple recognizes FreeBSD and NetBSD

June 21 - CNN has an article concerning Apple's press conference at USENIX. The full press release can be seen here.

BSD file flags to secure file systems

The German IT magazine iX has an in-depth technical article in the July issue about securing file systems with BSD file flags. The author bases his examples on NetBSD. Unfortunately, the article was not reprinted on-line.
(from Hauke Fath)

Slashdot wants to feature more FreeBSD information

In an interview in Wired, Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, notes that after the sale of Slashdot to Andover he would like to spend more time reporting on FreeBSD. Note also that Slashdot is now using a FreeBSD server to serve images to their web pages.

Changes in the news page

Due to Louis moving on to other work, we are looking for a person to compile the news page. If you are interested in joining as the news editor, please let us know by dropping us an email. We'd also like to see more news coming in from the NetBSD and OpenBSD camps. If you have a news item for us to run, please send it to news@daemonnews.org.

	BSD News Copyright © 1999 Brett Taylor NEWS AND RELEASES First annual FreeBSD Conference and Expo Concord, CA (USA), June 18: Jordan K. Hubbard announced FreeBSDCON '99, the first annual FreeBSD Conference and Expo, to be held October 19-21 in Berkeley, CA. The speaker program is still tentative, but several prominent users are slated so far. Jordan Hubbard will deliver the keynote address "The Future of FreeBSD". The conference will be preceded by a two-day tutorial October 17-18 on the BSD kernel internals pesented by BSD guru Kirk McKusick. Registration for the tutorial is separate from the conference. BSD users form group in Orlando Steve Youngblood wrote to tell about the launch of BUGO: BSD Users Group of Orlando (Central Florida, USA). The group officially started June 19. You can get in touch with the group via the web page or by email bsdugo@yahoo.com. Spare CPU cycles mysteriously abducted by aliens NetBSD joins the other BSDs with pre-compiled clients on several architectures for the SETI@Home Project project. By all accounts, a hardware floating point accelerator is very useful if you want to run the clients. The BSD groups are: FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Polish language mailing list for OpenBSD Karol Makowski has created a mailing list for Polish language users of OpenBSD. You may subscribe to the list by sending an email with an empty subject line and the content "subscribe OpenBSD" to OpenBSD-request@hack.pl. BSD IN THE PRESS FreeBSD in Ireland June 6 - Michael Doyle plugs FreeBSD in an article for the Public Communications Centre while being interviewed about being the system administrator for Co-operation Ireland. Another license comparison June 13 - 32BitsOnline has an article comparing the GPL and the BSD style licenses. It's a generally fair comparison. Life beyond Linux June 16 - David Cartwright gives a discussion of FreeBSD in this article, showing that there are alternative free OSes other than Linux. Apple recognizes FreeBSD and NetBSD June 21 - CNN has an article concerning Apple's press conference at USENIX. The full press release can be seen here. BSD file flags to secure file systems The German IT magazine iX has an in-depth technical article in the July issue about securing file systems with BSD file flags. The author bases his examples on NetBSD. Unfortunately, the article was not reprinted on-line. (from Hauke Fath) Slashdot wants to feature more FreeBSD information In an interview in Wired, Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, notes that after the sale of Slashdot to Andover he would like to spend more time reporting on FreeBSD. Note also that Slashdot is now using a FreeBSD server to serve images to their web pages. Changes in the news page Due to Louis moving on to other work, we are looking for a person to compile the news page. If you are interested in joining as the news editor, please let us know by dropping us an email. We'd also like to see more news coming in from the NetBSD and OpenBSD camps. If you have a news item for us to run, please send it to news@daemonnews.org.