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BSD BOF at LinuxWorld
Going to LinuxWorld this year? Robert
Bruce, head honcho at Walnut Creek CDROM, writes "There is going to be a
BSD BOF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, Feb. 3, from 5:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. We are in room 1D05, Jacob Javits Convention Center, near the conference area in the lower (2nd level down) of Javits.
You do not need to be a Linuxworld attendee to come to the BOF. Everyone
is welcome. There will be representatives from BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD
and OpenBSD."
If you're after installation CD-ROMs, or a bite to
eat, this is the place to be. You might even be able to get one of the free Daemon Horns that will be given away. The BOF is being
sponsored by BSDI, Walnut Creek CDROM, and BUNY (BSD Users of New York).
To add to what was said up there:
I'm an RHCE, and run Mandrake at home. I haven't bothered to mess with *BSD; when I got into throwing M$ off the desktop, Linux was what was ready to hand.
That said, I have one thing for all the daemon-bashers out there: Where would any of us be, any of us including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, et alia ad infinitum nauseumque, without BSD 4.3 networking?
If you jerked all that Berzerkeley code out of "The Internet", The Net As We Know It would cease to exist (at least until we could re-engineer all that, each vendor his own way, and we all know what THAT would entail....)
Bash M$ all you want, I don't care. Leave the daemons alone. Maybe they don't understand that free as in beer doesn't measure up to free as in speech... But without that original codebase and the original idea of giving away sofware, no enthusiasm for Unix in the university setting, no Internet as we know it, and therefore nothing for RMS to get excited or pissed off about, nor anything for Linus to base an OS on. Without the Daemons, there ARE no Penguins. And without Penguins, there would be no Slashdot. And without Slashdot... ~~*&%$#
NO CARRIER
:)
This is offtopic. Sorry.
I was skimming the replies to this article below my threshold (usually 2), and I saw a bunch of the usually trollish first post (well, first 30 posts this time) garbage. I noticed something really weird about the posts, though.
The article is dated:
"Tuesday February 01, @02:31PM"
BUT, if you read post #1, you see that it is dated:
"Thursday January 27, @07:54PM EST"
I haven't looked at the slash code yet, and my perl isn't really that good anyway, but:
What the heck?
Despite the general consensus around here, BSD is a very worthwhile operating system, that in many ways is much easier to use than Linux. I am curious what BOF stands for, though? Anyone figured that out yet? Despite what might be said, however, BSD is not "jumping" on the linux bandwagon at all. It's just that when people start looking around for alternatives to Windoze they see Linux... and if they look a bit further they bump into BSD. I run both Mandrake and FreeBSD (with my primary gateway being FreeBSD for stability) and I would highly recommend some Slashdotters to try out both (if you have the machines and the chance to hook both up as gateways/firewalls... even not connected to the net, it's an interesting experience) because the differences between the two are both interesting and informative. Yes, BSD is at a Linuxworld conference, but that's only because there's no BSDworld. All I'm saying is it's good to see both great operating systems represented.
FOLDOC Illuminates: http://www.instantweb.com/~foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =bof
1. Birds Of a Feather.
2. Boring Old Fart.
Birds Of a Feather
(BOF) (From the saying "Birds of a feather flock together") An informal discussion group, scheduled on a conference program or formed ad hoc, to consider a specific issue or subject. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s.
[Seoman] "A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking."
I'm going to be at linuxexpo, it's in fact going to be my first linux trade show despite the fact that I've been using linux for close to 4 years now.
:) but I don't see it that way.
The BSD's are not the enemy of linux. They're just a "cousin" so to speak. I don't approve of their licenses, but hey, that's not really the issue. The issue in my mind is that they're bringing good free software to the table for everybody to use. Now, some people may think of BSD as the ugly third cousin that we try to keep locked in the closet
It is quite interesting to see linux/BSD bigots lock horns over the advantages and disadvantages of the two - as in the maturity of BSD over the momentum of linux, the centralized development of BSD versus the bazaar development of linux, et al.
Regardless of what you may have read above, I agree with you. Support the Free Software Foundation http://www.gnu.org/