BSDCon 2000: Oct. 14-20

Should you be anywhere near the Hyatt Regency in Monterey, Calif. in mid-October then you'll be perfectly placed to attend this year's BSD Conference. More details can be had from the Conference Web site, or from the precis you'll see if you read on.

This is the second annual BSD Conference, after the success of the last one at Berkeley Marina. All BSD users are welcome, and encouraged to attend.

This year highlights will include:

• BSD Internals tutorial, by Kirk McKusick
• Conference dinner at the Monterey Aquarium
• Talks by BSD users, and members of the commercial community

It's all happening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, and runs from Oct. 14 to Oct. 20. The first tutorial is on the 14-15th, Kirk's internals tutorial covers the 16-17th, and the rest of the conference is from the 18th to the 20th.

Naturally, these things cost money. It's $495 to attend the conference itself, and another $495 to attend a tutorial. (There are two tutorial sessions, one is on 14-15, the other is on 16-17. The second one is Kirk's BSD internals tutorial, the first one is TBA. Room rates at the Hyatt are $129 a night.

If you're a BSD user or developer and would like to present a paper at the conference then get writing. Contact Jim Mock with your ideas, or for more information about the topics they are looking for.

Comments

Re:Is there a need for BSD?

[seebs]

Imagine that Windows was open-sourced. Would you move to Windows? No. You'd stick with Linux, because you believe that the design is enough better that there's no hope of *ever* getting Windows up to the code quality of Linux.

Now, I'm not saying Linux is anywhere near as bad as Windows, or even necessarily "bad" in any absolute sense, but I'd much rather work on BSD systems than on Linux, and no, I *can't* just "change Linux" to make it meet my needs.

You can't just mash philosophies together. SVR4 is a total disaster because it can't decide whether it's SysV or BSD. So, I can't take the Linux kernel design, add the design ideas I want, and expect to get a meaningful result.

You can't "merge" everything. Some things are sufficiently different that the best you can hope for is coexistance and compatability.

Yes, there's still a need for BSD. From a technical standpoint, there's probably still a need for more than one, just as there's a need for all the little branches and offshoots of Linux that crop up from time to time.