NetBSD And BSDCon 2000 6
-is writes "This year, BSDCon will be held from October 14th to the 20th in Monterey, California. Tutorials will be from the 14th through the 17th, and the Conference will be from the 18th through the 20th.
There are plenty of activities of interest (see the conference schedule portion of the BSDCon web site), and a couple of those spotlight NetBSD.
- On October 19th, Charles Hannum will be giving a talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for The Future". This will take place in the Regency Ballroom from 8:30 to 9:30 am.
- On October 20th, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, a member of the NetBSD Core Group, will be giving a talk about NetBSD 1.5. This will take place in Regency I-III from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.
- NetBSD will also be an exhibitor at BSDCon 2000. The Expo hours are from 10:00am to 6:00pm on October 18th, 9:00am to 5:00pm on October 19th, and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on October 20th. Stop by if you can.
Information on other exhibitors, talks, tutorials, and registration can be found on the BSDCon web site."
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A quick search would have shown it to you. Enhancing general information by more in-depth articles about partial topics doesn't look wrong to me.
Personally, I don't like this WWW news portal business very much, because it consists of posting the same information to N server, which everybody has to access to pull information from, instead of posting it once to a broadcast medium. In the times of my youth, you posted your news to the appropriate Usenet news group, and everybody interested was happy. But nowadays, I guess, half the potential readers can't even imagine that there were computers before The Web was invented, and that landing on the moon was done by pure manual steering...
Re:What's wrong with *BSD (Score:2)
Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera, Turbo, Debian, Slackware - and these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head!
Just as every Linux distro brings its own unique features to the table, the various currents of the great BSD river do as well. It bears repeating:
(Appearing in alphabetical order)
BSDi - commercial "pay" version
FreeBSD - optimized for Intel
NetBSD - runs damn near everywhere
OpenBSD - "secure by default"
I'm sure there have been many submissions about BSDCon - only the NetBSD one made it through, probably because it provided detail and was well written.
Re:What's wrong with *BSD (Score:2)
The BSD camp is far *less* balkanized than the Linux camps. Put NetBSD and OpenBSD users in the same small room with locked door and there will be peace, understanding and camaradarie. Put Debian and Redhat users in the same small room and there will be acrimony, accusation and virtual bloodshed.
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Just don't try putting the NetBSD and OpenBSD *developers* in the same small room. The resulting bloodshed would be terrifying.
Chris