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Early Registration for European BSD Conference 2002

Posted by michael on from the no-waiting dept.

Walter Belgers writes "This year, the European BSD Conference will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Friday November 15 is a tutorial day, Saturday and Sunday are filled with interesting lectures about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and MacOS X, and a keynote by Mike Karels. This is your chance to learn from BSD developers and see how other BSDs are doing. Early registration is open until October 18th. For more information, see the website."

15 comments

  1. maybe first post? by JamesCronus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    maybe this'll be first, maybe not what is the differnce between all of the BSD's anyway?

    --
    dybia felly dwi a hampster (i think therefore i am a hampster)
    1. Re:maybe first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, supposedly, FreeBSD is very suitable for i386's (although, I believe, also available on Alpha) and provides some binary compatibility with Linux and SCO, while NetBSD focuses on portability; almost any machine will run it. OpenBSD split off of the NetBSD branch late, so it's quite portable, but it has a focus on security. As we all know, Darwin is designed merely as a base for Mac OS X.

    2. Re:maybe first post? by RinkSpringer · · Score: 3, Informative

      Read http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/16 55220 for a nice overview about the BSD's...

  2. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I realise that I'm responding to a rather consistent troll, but a question about these posts has been on the back of my mind for a while now. That is, why exactly do you care? I mean, I don't like Linux or Windows or whatnot, so I don't use them. I do not post on /. about how they're dying or what's wrong with them. So, why exactly do you care about the life or death of BSD? Maybe you have some personal experience with them, or with their developers that clouds your judgement? Maybe you are forced to use a BSD at work? Maybe you are bitter that Apple chose BSD as the basis for their new OS? Maybe a BSD developer stole your last girlfriend? What's up?

  3. Re:Amsterdam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You've never seen the comment about Berkeley? Two things came from Berkely, BSD and LSD ;-)

    Nothing wrong with "modern day hippies". After all, hippies in the late 60's early 70's had a *great* impact on society at the time.

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they are trolls. they dont know a thing about BSD. they are just plain stupid. what i dont get is why they even bother. even the stupidest of people get bored after a while.

    oh well, maybe they will grow up eventually, of course more jackasses will replace them. its a shame, oh well, im over it. and if they dont grow up, maybe they will die in a car accident.

  5. I wonder.... by Noodlenose · · Score: 1
    ..if Theo will be there?

    It would be interesting to see a a public discussion between the headhoncho's of the *BSD's.

    You probably would need to have police, the army and a large contingent of paramedics there to avoid major bloodshed...

    1. Re:I wonder.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      no, you just need to shoot that immature prick in the head and let OpenBSD evolve at a much faster pace

  6. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "even the supidest of people get bored after a while"...

    Which, uhh, makes this guy even dumber than a fencepost ;-)

  7. Re:Wonderful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    maybe they don't need to look for work?