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EuroBSDCon 2004

Posted by Hemos on from the report-from-the-front dept.

Anonymous Reward writes "During the final weekend of October, nearly 200 people attended EuroBSDCon in Karlsruhe, Germany. The event offered a keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard, 23 talks organized in two tracks, a social event inside Luigi Colani's exhibition, and multiple coffee breaks to socialize. ONLamp.com has just published a report with funny pics..."

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  1. Honestly by Nimrangul · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Federico there thinks these kinds of conferences should be expanded to be more of a bonding time for the various BSD related projects and I agree with that. However, he does not think they should be like the Hackathons of OpenBSD; I disagree there.

    I think that it would be a very interesting thing to have a conference where as many developers as possible get together for a week long party and idea mixer.

    One where the developers of things like OpenBGPd could talk straight to the developers of FreeBSD about how to properly integrate it, showing what was done to make it all work on OpenBSD and getting it to on FreeBSD.

    Where people that make the systems and tools are face to face with one another and actually interact. How better can anyone spot the various pros and cons of the BSDs and improve on them then bringing together the people that work on the different codebases and getting them to talk and read eachother's stuff.

    I am not saying that putting Darren Reed and Daniel Hartmeier in seats right next to each other would be the best thing, but getting people together really could help out the quality of all the projects.

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    I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
  2. For some *real* research links... by ulib · · Score: 5, Informative
    Needless to say, the MIT link this mindless GNU/troll's posting is *10 years old* (1994).
    No surprise that Research conducted at Harvard in year *2000* (here's the full text) tells a different story: BSD's Soft Updates technology is on par with journaling on the whole, and in many cases it provides superior performance.

    It's nice to see the GNU fans spreading FUD about BSD (this, and the whole "BSD is dying" campaign). One might wonder what's the difference between GNU and the big and evil corporations they hate so much, since they're using the same dishonest marketing techniques - and spreading FUD is really the most disgusting.

    Luckily, the OS world hasn't been monopolized yet by FUD-spreading corporations and FUD-spreading communists. There still is BSD - and it's here to stay. :)

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    Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.