Presentation Follow-up

There were about 20-25 attendees in the Open Source
group meeting.  I only had about 15 minutes, so yes
I did talk pretty fast.

There were some basic questions and comments, but the
really interesting thing was to meet other BSD aficionados 
here in my unnamed company.  One guy is a ports committer
for a few FreeBSD ports, another is a former BSDi user,
and there were a couple more.  We chatted after the meeting.

Maybe something cool will come of it downstream. Hey - you
never know...

Thanks to all who helped out.

Jim B.

Re: BSD Overview Preso

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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:16:04 -0400
> From: "Jim B." <jpb <at> jimby.name>
> To: talk <at> lists.nycbug.org
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] BSD Overview Preso
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> * Jim B. <jpb <at> jimby.name> [2012-05-23 15:06]:
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> 
> The revised preso is at http://www.jimby.name/bsdov/bsdov.pdf
> 
> It's now a link to the latest verion (bsdov_02.pdf).
> 
> 
> Many thanks for your help folks.  The talk is tomorrow.
> 
> All errors are still my own!
> 
> 
> I'll leave the preso up for a few days.  More feedback is
> always welcome.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim B.

BSD Overview Preso

Hi All,

The scrubbed preso is at http://www.jimby.name/bsdov/bsdov_01.pdf

All errors are my own 

Enjoy,
Jim B.

Facebook, For users with Flash installed

Hi All,

Fascinating info-porn relating to the Facebook IPO friday:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/17/business/dealbook/how-the-facebook-offering-compares.html

(if you look hard, you see wind river systems buried in there, along with every other 'tech' company to IPO).

Pretty strange/obtuse/telling to see companies like Tandem and Cray put in the same chart as Facebook…
(what the heck is a tech IPO anyhow?)

Fascinating info-porn, none the less ideologically flawed.

Rocket-
.ike

NetBSD pkgsrc question

Hello,

I have used FreeBSD and the ports packages for a while and do upgrades
via portsnap/portupgrade.  Now have another machine
using NetBSD 5.1 and the "pkgsrc" package system.  Am using cvsup to
keep it updated so how do you have the system build all current
packages of interest like FreeBSD's portupgrade?

regards,

David -- KC4ZVW
--

-- 
ARRL * AVR * Duckworks * FreeBSD * Linux * PICmicro * QRP * TAPR

Re: Request for NYCBUG Help

> >
> > What would you like to see and hear about regarding
> > BSD software and the BSD community?
> >
> > Here's my current draft agenda - suggestions welcome.
> >

> 
> useful to compare to gpl and gpl v3 hell and its decline.
> 
> and potential lawsuits lots of people could potentially face
> 

On that note, maybe mention Portable C Compiler, and FreeBSD switching to Clang by default.

Thanks for the BSDCan report!

Brett.

2 Copies of FreeBSD Device Drivers

Soekris NTP Box (via: Michael Dexter)

Request for NYCBUG Help

Hi All,

So I return from BSDCan to find an email invitation
to speak at the Open Source Working Group at my current
employer (who should remain unnamed please).

I had earlier mentioned that I was a BSD aficionado and
was offered an opportunity to join this group which
explores, discusses, tests, recommends, and actually
uses Open Source software.  While most of the discussions
I've seen in the past are about software libraries, and
specific applications, they offered to let me talk at
the next meeting (May 24) on anything BSD.  I'll have
20-30 minutes, so it's not a lot of time.

As are most organizations using OSS, there is a large
Linux presence, but there is also a lot of other Unix
throughout the enterprise - AIX, Solaris, HPUX, and
probably many others.  I'll have to introduce a bit of
BSD history, philosophy, and the projects before I get
into the details of BSD "gems".

So, put yourself in my audience's shoes - enterprise IT
guys, with a good set of processes in place for a very
large infrastructure based primarily on Windows, AIX,
Linux, and Solaris; with established architecture and
very high expectations for professional IT on a global
scale, who also know quite a lot about Open Source
Software (though mostly Linux).  These are some pretty
smart people.

What would you like to see and hear about regarding
BSD software and the BSD community?

Here's my current draft agenda - suggestions welcome.

I - A Brief History of BSD

 - ATT/UCB partnership
 - ATT lawsuit
 - BSD Family Tree
 - BSD License

II - FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, PC-BSD  Introductions

 - Main features
 - Community
 - Future directions

III - Cool Hot Stuff

 - ZFS
 - Hammer
 - HAST
 - FreeNAS, TrueNAS
 - pf Firewall, CARP, pfSense
 - Embedded BSD
 - Capsicum
 - Virtualization
   - Jails, Xen, Hyper-v, VIMAGE, EC2, and other virtualization topics
 - Desktop PC-BSD

IV - BSD Certification

Remember- only 20-30 minutes!

Cheers,
Jim B.

BSDCan

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