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NetBSD And BSDCon 2000 6

Posted by michael from the hanging-out dept.
-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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  • Slashdot != BSD. Keep that in mind. The money of the failing Linux IPO's fund sites like this (which were once good). Most of the "technical" discussions are gone. All the topics revolve around market-ese. It would be interesting to see a graph of the pro-linux stories exponential increase since the whole VA/Andover.net dealings while the *BSD ones all but disappear. Quality Sun based ones are often rejected only things accepted are stories about Linux/Star Wars/Gadgets. Quality means nothing any more.
  • No, the problem is that Linux is slashdot and slashdot is Linux. Many legitimate *BSD/Sun stores are either ignored or posted on this subsection two weeks after the fact. If you rely on slashdot for anything other than SuSE/RedHat release news you're wasting your time. Oooh! Kernel 2.2.1182-preac8-test1.1 is out. Front page! Its sad. Most of us leave slashdot alone. I still have hope that it'll return to its previous glory.
  • May I humbly point out that BSDCon 2000 was announced on /. [slashdot.org] already?

    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...

  • Balkanization my butt!

    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.
  • You mean like the Slashdot announcements on the main page for *every* minor release of Debian and Redhat, and the frequent announcements for new versions of Slackware, SuSE, Corel, Caldera, TurboLinux, ad nauseum.

    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.
  • Put NetBSD and OpenBSD users in the same small room with locked door and there will be peace, understanding and camaradarie.

    Just don't try putting the NetBSD and OpenBSD *developers* in the same small room. The resulting bloodshed would be terrifying.


    Chris

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