FreeBSDCon '99 Speaker Schedule Announced

Bill Swingle writes "The final speaker schedule for the upcoming FreeBSDCon has been announced. Highlights include, Kirk McKusick's BSD Internals tutorial, and keynotes from both Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Project and Jeremey Allison from the Samba Project. There are all kinds of fun events planned for the conference, including a free (for attendees) beer bash. This should be one killer conference! " Read on for more. CT : This is the first article in our new BSD Section maintained by Nik. Enjoy.

There are also speakers from Apple, talking about FreeBSD's contribution to Darwin, Jonathan Bresler talking about his experiences with spam fighting as the FreeBSD Postmaster, and Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino of the KAME group, talking about IPv6 and IPSec, to name just a few more (modesty forbids me mentioning my own presentation at the conference, obviously).

Comments

Conference Should Be Interesting

[Effugas]

With all the fuss at the recent Linux* conferences, it's good to see FreeBSD pulling into its own.

I've mentioned this before, but I've become a definite admirer of the various BSD's. The fact that many of the critical network analysis tools I use on a regular basis(and continually have to add to my fresh Linux boxen) are packaged into the installer of FreeBSD.

I'm very interested in stopping by the BSD convention for a day or two, to learn more about who's doing what and so on. Can one attend the exhibits for free, like most(read: almost all) computer conventions? I understand the need for the organizers to make their money back, and respect it, but I would like to make a showing(which would already cost me time off work) to see what the exhibitors have to offer, but don't want to make the drive up there only to be turned away.

So what's the scoop?

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com