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May Issue of Daemon News' EZine Released

Posted by timothy on from the itojun-knows-his-food-groups dept.

GMan00 writes "Daemon News' latest May EZine has been released online. This issue covers BSDCan which was held last weekend in Ottawa, Canada. As you'll see from the DN EZine, the conference was a great success, with some 170 developers, sysadmins and end-users from around the world. Some travelled as far away as Japan, the Ukraine and the Netherlands. Speakers included Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino of the IETF and a lead authority on IPv6 besides being the NetBSD Security Officer, Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD, Poul-Henning Kamp, the creator of the FreeBSD GEOM Disk i/o subsystem, and Robert Watson, the founder of the TrustedBSD Project. Dan Langille, the brain behind FreeBSDDiary and FreshPorts, organized the conference and is planning a repeat performance next May."

22 comments

  1. île sans fil by millette · · Score: 2, Informative

    île sans fil from Montréal was at BSDCan too, and I heard it was great fun! Now if we could get a Linux Expo or something in Montreal, that would be great!

  2. BSDCan is over here... by JunkMale · · Score: 3, Informative

    BSDcan just needed a link....

  3. BSD section by theapodan · · Score: 1

    Ya know, it's getting so that the BSD section is almost a private board,
    it seems nobody ever posts or moderates, except for the trolling AC's.

    But what I want to know, is why was this sucker held in Canada?
    I wouldn't have thought Ottawa the hotbed of BSD hacking.

    1. Re:BSD section by JamesKPolk · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Of course BSD is unpopular here. Slashdot has grown into site full of frustrated, disgruntled people who sit at work on Microsoft Windows machines. They work off their frustration by joining the "Linux" subculture, without actually holding that many beliefs or philosophy in common with the people who made the software.

      The evidence of this is everywhere :Slashdot editors telling us that the logs show a majority of MS users; the popularity of Wine, Samba, and OpenOffice; the trust in big corporations like AOL/Netscape, Sun, and IBM despite their having little or nothing in common with what founded this community.

      Since BSD isn't a "cool" part of the Linux subculture (except for the occasional person who decides Linux is too popular to be "cool"), it just doesn't get much attention.

    2. Re:BSD section by JunkMale · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But what I want to know, is why was this sucker held in Canada?

      As for why Ottawa, well, I live here. Of course I'd hold it there. Location, price, and accessibility are important.

      I wouldn't have thought Ottawa the hotbed of BSD hacking.

      Your statements seems to portray the requirement that conferences only be held where the developers are. That's not true at all.

    3. Re:BSD section by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Umm ... BSDCan ... BSD-Canada. While most Canadians were in favour of holding the meeting somewhere in the Caribbean, the travel costs were prohibitive.