BSD User Groups?

*no comment* writes "Deadly.org has an article running that started out as a call for Seattle OpenBSD people to start a local usergroup, but has since turned into a thread for people all over the country looking for people."

Comments

OpenBSD holds up to /.

[Yonder Way]

Well I hope I am not jinking things but thus far deadly.org seems to be holding up well to the /. effect. It's on my normal rounds anyway and I went there before I came here. Was surprised to see a deadly.org headline without the site being crushed.

Re:OpenBSD holds up to /.

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

Hmm, slashdotted from a BSD post not on the main page? Unlikely. Only the trolls and die hard BSD folks come into this joint when it's not on the front page.

Re:OpenBSD holds up to /.

[Yonder Way]

I wasn't looking at the BSD page; I was looking at the MAIN page.

Re:OpenBSD holds up to /.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Netcraft confirms: BSD Trolls are dying.

Re:OpenBSD holds up to /.

[endeavour31]

Likely because OpenBSD can handle huge loads of traffic.

Re:OpenBSD holds up to /.

[mivok]

Or people who have their preferences set to show everything on the front page, which is a bitch when I forget to log in.

Re:Tsarkon Reports : FreeBSD is king.

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me what kind of drugs did you take? I have to avoid those.

Until the Editors realize it, apparently.

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering how all of the posts in this thread are trolls, I guess never enough.
BTW, wasn't BSD a UNIX or something?

Toronto

[Tuzanor]

Toronto: www.gtabug.ca

We hold meetings on the same day as TLUG, as to avoid many of the weenies.

Was BSD a UNIX?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well I google'd it but all the sites I found were old dead links on nonexistant servers. The only mentions that worked were more 'BSD is Dead' sites, but none of them are quite sure what the fuck it was either.

Sad really to see /. so behind on the times

Re:BSD and USA

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

Hmm? a whois on freebsd.org brings up Oregon, which is still in the states last I checked. OpenBSD is in Canada because of stupid crypto laws.

Have you tried...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your local cemetery? That's probably the best place to recruit *BSD users.

Re:Have you tried...

[chadm1967]

Can someone tell me how this is funny? What's the matter.....don't have the brain to at least try a BSD so you post a response like this?????

Idiot!

What's that smell?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did something die?

It smells like something is dead.

Re:What's that smell?

[Anonymous Coward]

And I told you to start bathing. Or at least using the bibette.

Re:BSD and USA

[mivok]

Isn't OpenBSD in canada because thats where Theo De Raadt lives?

Re:BSD and USA

[Guy Harris]

Isn't OpenBSD in canada because thats where Theo De Raadt lives?

That might be part of the reason, but this item suggests it's not the only reason:

Why do we ship cryptography?

In three words: because we can.

The OpenBSD project is based in Canada.

The Export Control List of Canada places no significant restriction on the export of cryptographic software, and is even more explicit about the free export of freely-available cryptographic software. Marc Plumb has done some research to test the cryptographic laws.

Hence the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places in the operating system. We require that the cryptographic software we use be freely available and with good licenses. We do not directly use cryptography with nasty patents. We also require that such software is from countries with useful export licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country. The cryptographic software components which we use currently were written in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Norway, and Sweden.

When we create OpenBSD releases or snapshots we build our release binaries in free countries to assure that the sources and binaries we provide to users are free of tainting. In the past our release binary builds have been done in Canada, Sweden, and Germany.

OpenBSD ships with Kerberos IV and Kerberos V included. The two codebases we use are the exportable KTH-based release from Sweden. Our X11 source has been extended to make use of Kerberos as well.

Re:Tsarkon Reports : FreeBSD is king.

[vesamies]

Actually, BSD is not very bad. There is no risk
in trying, that just great! If you start feeling
weird and little sick you can take some other
***X anytime, dont't worry be happy!

the thing about user groups....

[Anonymous Coward]

is that first you need USERS.

Denver area?

[sedawkgrep]

Anybody interested in organizing a Denver-based OpenBSD user group? I'd be willing to help out some.

sedawkgrep _at_ yahoo

Hmmm, Why not join the LUG folks?

[Anonymous Coward]

Most BSD people I know visit the the Lunix Users Groups
instead. There's usually more of them and you can visit
the meetings and (silently) laugh at some of the people
there. There are also some very brilliant people at
the meetings too. Unless you're in an area where your
favorite BSD has lots of people (The big computer areas), this
is probably the better solution.

Myself, I use NetBSD. :)

Re:Hmmm, Why not join the LUG folks?

[Anonymous Coward]

You should not lower the tone of LUGs by showing up as a *BSD user.

You will stick out and be laughed at.

You will see multimedia and this will scare you.

If you show up at my LUG I will kick your arse.

Re:Hmmm, Why not join the LUG folks

[Groganz]

Or convince the LUG to become a general UUG like my local group HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group) which is for Linux, BSD, or any Unix for that matter.

Windsor UNIX Users Group

[Anonymous Coward]

WUUG has members that use BSD, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, etc. Check them out www.wuug.org.

UK one under development

[Richard_at_work]

I am currently in the process of setting up a UK BSD User group system much along the lines of lug.org.uk. If you are interested or would like to volunteer services, email me at info@bsdusergroup.co.uk.

bsd.meetup.com

[Anonymous Coward]

http://bsd.meetup.com