Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:58:14 +1100 (EST) From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/129127: [patch] update www/en/multimedia to November 2008 Message-ID: <20081124105815.028934501B@k7.mavetju.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200811241120.mAOBK2Bt039482@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 129127 >Category: www >Synopsis: [patch] update www/en/multimedia to November 2008 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 24 11:20:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Edwin Groothuis >Release: FreeBSD 7.1-BETA i386 >Organization: - >Environment: System: FreeBSD k7.mavetju.org 7.1-BETA FreeBSD 7.1-BETA #0: Sun Sep 7 13:49:18 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Updates for the last three months Index: multimedia-input.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/dcvs/www/en/multimedia/multimedia-input.xml,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 multimedia-input.xml --- multimedia-input.xml 25 Aug 2008 20:58:02 -0000 1.5 +++ multimedia-input.xml 24 Nov 2008 10:56:00 -0000 @@ -9,6 +9,340 @@ <!-- Source: bsdtalk --> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081121"> + <title>Julian Elischer</title> + <desc> + An interview with Julian Elischer at MeetBSD in + California. We talk about his early days with BSD + and his work using BSD at various companies. He is + currently with IronPort, which was bought by Cisco. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/bsdtalk165-julian-elischer.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,julian elischer,ironport</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk165.mp3</url> + <size>16 Mb</size> + <length>35 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk165.ogg</url> + <length>16 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081118"> + <title>At MeetBSD with some of the FreeBSD Core Team</title> + <desc> + A conversation with some of the FreeBSD Core Team + at MeetBSD California 2008. I speak with Brooks + Davis, Kris Kennaway, Robert Watson, Peter Wemm, + and Philip Paeps about the recent core team election, + FreeBSD 7.1 and 8, Developer Summits, and the move + to Subversion. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/bsdtalk164-at-meetbsd-with-some-of.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,freebsd core team,meetbsd2008,meetbsd,robert watson,brooks davis,kris kennaway,peter wemm,philip paeps,freebsd,subversion</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk164.mp3</url> + <size>18 Mb</size> + <length>38 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk164.ogg</url> + <length>38 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081116"> + <title>A Tour of iXsystems</title> + <desc> + A brief description of my visit to iXsystems in + California prior to MeetBSD 2008. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/bsdtalk163-tour-of-ixsystems.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,ixsystems</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk163.mp3</url> + <size>4 Mb</size> + <length>8 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk163.ogg</url> + <length>8 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081116"> + <title>BSD on a eeePC 900A</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + I look forward to attending MeetBSD this weekend. + <br> + A brief description of my first attempts to get BSD + on a eeePC 900A. I try OpenBSD 4.4, DragonFlyBSD + 2.0.1, PC-BSD 7.0.1, and FreeBSD 7. + ]]> + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/bsdtalk162-bsd-on-eeepc-900a.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,eeepc</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk162.mp3</url> + <size>5 Mb</size> + <length>10 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk162.ogg</url> + <length>10 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081013"> + <title>Live from NYCBSDCon Sunday</title> + <desc> + A copy of Sunday's live stream from NYCBSDCon + 2008. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bsdtalk161-live-from-nycbsdcon-sunday.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,nycbsdcon2008,nycbsdcon,interview</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk161.mp3</url> + <size>12 Mb</size> + <length>25 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk161.ogg</url> + <length>25 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081012"> + <title>Live from NYCBSDCon Saturday</title> + <desc> + A copy of Saturday's live stream from NYCBSDCon + 2008. I wander around during lunch talking to random + people. Voices include Jason Dixon, Pawel Jakub + Dawidek, Kris Moore, Matt Olander, George Neville-Neil, + Phillip Coblentz, and Jason Wright. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bsdtalk160-live-from-nycbsdcon-saturday.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,nycbsdcon2008,nycbsdcon,interview,jason dixon,pawel jakub dawidek,kris more,matt olander,george neville-neil,phillip coblentz,jason wright</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk160.mp3</url> + <size>18 Mb</size> + <length>40 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk160.ogg</url> + <length>40 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20081006"> + <title>Kris Moore</title> + <desc> + Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent + release of PC-BSD 7.0. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bsdtalk159-kris-moore.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,kris more,pc-bsd</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk159.mp3</url> + <size>6 Mb</size> + <length>12 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk159.ogg</url> + <length>12 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080926"> + <title>Interview with Chess Griffin</title> + <desc> + Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality + podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent + exploration into the BSDs. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bsdtalk158-interview-with-chess-griffin.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,chess griffin,linuxreality</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk158.mp3</url> + <size>11 Mb</size> + <length>24 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk158.ogg</url> + <length>24 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080916"> + <title>Questions for you</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + <ul> + <li>Things have been very busy at the beginning of the school year, so I'm sorry that I haven't been producing as many shows as usual. + <li>Registration is open for NYCBSDCon and the list of speakers is available. Are you going? + <li>I plan on streaming live during the conference. Do you have any suggestions for live streaming software that is known to work well on the BSDs? Are there any live CDs like Dyne:bolic? + <li>I've come into possession of a Soekris 5501. What are your suggestions for soekris-friendly projects to test? + </ul>]]> + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bsdtalk157-questions-for-you.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk157.mp3</url> + <size>3 Mb</size> + <length>6 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk157.ogg</url> + <length>6 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080819"> + <title>NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer</title> + <desc> + An update on NYCBSDCon 2008 with Isaac Levy and + Steven Kreuzer. More information on the conference + can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/ + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/08/bsdtalk156-nycbsdcon-update-with-isaac.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,nycbug,nycbsdcon,nycbsdcon2008,isaac levy,steven kreuzer</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk156.mp3</url> + <size>7 Mb</size> + <length>15 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk156.ogg</url> + <length>15 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080723"> + <title>Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org</title> + <desc> + A brief interview with Martin Tournoij, one of the + founders of DaemonForums.org. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/07/bsdtalk-155-martin-tournoij-from.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,daemonforums,martin tournoij</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk155.mp3</url> + <size>3 Mb</size> + <length>7 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk155.ogg</url> + <length>7 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080709"> + <title>Matthew Dillon</title> + <desc> + An interview with Matthew Dillon. He gives a fairly + technical description of the HAMMER filesystem + features that will make it in the DragonflyBSD 2.0 + release. + </desc> + <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/07/bsdtalk154-matthew-dillon.html</overview>; + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,hammer,matthew dillon</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>bsdtalk154.mp3</url> + <size>14 Mb</size> + <length>30 minutes</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>bsdtalk154.ogg</url> + <length>30 minutes</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + <item source="bsdtalk" added="20080615"> <title>Michael W. Lucas</title> <desc> @@ -340,7 +674,7 @@ new features in PBI 4. </desc> <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/bsdtalk141-pbi4-with-kris-moore.html</overview>; - <tags>bsdtalk,interview,pc-bsd, kris moore</tags> + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,pc-bsd,kris moore</tags> <files> <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; <file> @@ -369,7 +703,7 @@ a quick update on Sysjail. </desc> <overview>http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/bsdtalk140-mult-project-with-kristaps.html</overview>; - <tags>bsdtalk,interview,multi project, kristaps dzonsons</tags> + <tags>bsdtalk,interview,multi project,kristaps dzonsons</tags> <files> <prefix>http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/</prefix>; <file> @@ -2649,27 +2983,1300 @@ </files> </item> - <item source="suug2004" added="20070114"> - <title>Poul-Henning Kamp - Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now)</title> - <desc> - UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so - everybody is running UNIX on their computer, right - ? This presentation takes a partisan looks a why - UNIX never became a big success in the eighties, - failed to win the market in the nineties, and still - struggles in the market in the new millenium. - Poul-Henning will take a critical look at the - mistakes of the past and the mistakes of the present - and try to make it really clear what needs to happen - for UNIX to become a real success. - </desc> - <overview>http://conferences.suug.ch/sucon/04/</overview>; - <tags>suug,presentation,unix,mistakes,poul-henning kamp</tags> + <item source="suug2004" added="20070114"> + <title>Poul-Henning Kamp - Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now)</title> + <desc> + UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so + everybody is running UNIX on their computer, right + ? This presentation takes a partisan looks a why + UNIX never became a big success in the eighties, + failed to win the market in the nineties, and still + struggles in the market in the new millenium. + Poul-Henning will take a critical look at the + mistakes of the past and the mistakes of the present + and try to make it really clear what needs to happen + for UNIX to become a real success. + </desc> + <overview>http://conferences.suug.ch/sucon/04/</overview>; + <tags>suug,presentation,unix,mistakes,poul-henning kamp</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/slides/oldmistakes.pdf</url>; + <size>65 Kb</size> + <desc>Slides</desc> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paeps Philip - How-to embed FreeBSD</title> + <desc> + This paper provides a how-to embed FreeBSD. A console + server built form an AT91RM9200 based ARM system + will be explored. This paper will talk about the + selection of hardware. It will explore creating + images for the target system, as well as concentrate + on different alternatives for deploying the system. + A number of different options exist today, and no + comprehensive guide for navigating through the + choices exists today. This paper will explore the + different alternatives that exist today for producing + images targeted at different size requirements. The + differing choices for storage in an embedded + environment are explored. The techniques used to + access rich debugging environments are discussed. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,embed,freebsd,philip paeps</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2828&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>43 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2828&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>43 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2828&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>17 pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Multicast Performance in FreeBSD</title> + <desc> + In the past ten years most of the research in network + protocols has gone into TCP, leaving UDP to languish + as a local configuration protocol. While the majority + of Internet traffic is TCP, UDP remains the only + IP protocol that works over multicast and as such + has some specific, and interesting uses in some + areas of computing. In 2008 we undertook a study + of the performance of UDP multicast on both 1Gbps + and 10Gbps Ethernet networks in order to see if + changing the physical layer of the network would + give a linear decrease in packet latency. To measure + the possible gains we developed a new network + protocol test program, mctest, which is capable of + recording packet round trip times from many hosts + simultaneously and which we believe accurately + represents how many environments use multicast. The + mctest program has been integrated into FreeBSD and + is now being used to verify the proper operation + of multicast on various pieces of 10Gbps hardware. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,multicast,freebsd,george neville-neil</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2827&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>39 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2827&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>39 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2827&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Pedro Giffuni - Working with Engineering Applications in FreeBSD</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + In recent years, traditional branches of engineering + like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical and + Industrial Engineering are requiring extensive + computing facilities for their needs. Several well + known labs (Sandia, Lawrence Livermore) rely on + huge clusters to do all types of complex analysis + that were unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While + the free BSD variants share the environment with + traditional UNIX systems, frequently used for such + computations, it was not common to find adequate + free software packages to carry complex calculations. + Eventually commercial versions of important math + related packages started to appear for the Linux + platform. Even when the big packages were distant, + the BSDs learned and adapted in resourceful ways: + Matlab and Mathematica, running under Linux emulation, + demanded functionality from the BSDs and NetBSD + implemented a signal trampoline to be able to run + AutoCAD with IRIX binary compatibility. A notable + project that was always available under a free + license was Berkeley's Spice circuit analysis + program, however it was an exception rather than + the rule. Even when the scientific community pressed + for a while to get other important tools like NASA's + FEA package Nastran under a free license, the + objective of being able to access and enhance open + scientific tools was elusive. About a decade ago + the situation started to improve: FreeBSD's ports + system started growing exponentially, first with a + high content in the math category, afterwards with + a CAD section and after sustained growth in those + categories a science section was created. This + growth was mostly pushed by Universities and their + research projects and in general are not well known + with respect to the commercial counterparts. I + started porting math/engineering code for FreeBSD + around 1996. Back then it was absolutely unthinkable + for a Mechanical Engineer to depend only on FreeBSD + for it's daily work. The situation nowadays is + different: there are some very high quality engineering + analysis packages like EDF's Code Aster, with more + than 12 years of professional development, that + just can't be ignored. A Finite Element package, + like Code Aster, can easily cost 5000 US$, is priced + according to the maximum problem size it can solve, + can require yearly licenses, and is rarely available + with source code. In NASTRAN's case the source code + is only available for US citizens under a yearly + fee. Free software does have serious limitations + though; just like in office applications there are + proprietary CAD formats or sometimes the package + simply doesn't have the required functionality. + Having the sources, of course, always has the + advantage of being able to implement (or pay for) + some specific functionality you might need. Many + commercial packages have been recently ported to + Linux, but even when they gain some of the advantages + of an open environment they still have yet another + limitation: they have been very slow to make use + of the multicored features of the new processors + in the market, a huge limitation now that the speed + war between processors has been limited by the + overheating problem. The objective of the talk is + to give an overview of several CAD/CAE packages + that have been made available recently as part of + FreeBSD's ports system and the decisions that were + made to port them. BRLCAD and Varkon are two CAD + utilities that made a transition from closed source + to an open environment and in the process in the + process of getting ported to BSD have gained greater + portability and general "bug" fixes critical for + their consolidation as usable and maintainable + projects. There are also some tricks that have not + been well documented: it is possible to enable + threads and some extra optimizations on some packages, + and it is also possible to replace the standard + BLAS library with the faster GOTO BLAS without + rebuilding the package. It is also possible to build + the packages optimized for a clustered environment, + but perhaps what is most interesting of all is how + all the packages interrelate with each other and + can turn FreeBSD into a complete enginering + environment. No OS distribution so far is offering + all the engineering specific utilities offered + through FreeBSD's ports system: from design to + visualization, passing through analysis FreeBSD is + becoming an option that can't be ignored, and best + of all, it is an effort that will benefit not only + FreeBSD but the wider audience. + <br> + Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Engineering - + University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Engineer - + Universidad Nacional de Colombia I was born in + Bogota, Colombia but I am an Italian citizen. My + experience with computers started when I was about + 12 years old With the TRS-80 Color Computer first + using Basic and the OS-9. I studied electronics for + 3 years but became tired of worrying about "whatever + happened to electrons in there" and moved to + Mechanical Engineering. For a while I rested from + the computer world until the Internet came stepping + along. I started using FreeBSD around 1995 and soon + fell in love with the idea of being able to install + a complete version of UNIX from the net with just + one floppy. After submitting a the 999th port to + the FreeBSD project Walnut Creek was kind enough + to give me a subscription for several years to + FreeBSD's CD-ROM. Since then I've been on and off + porting software packages or fixing the bugs I have + caused while porting them. Of course there has + always been great respect for the other BSDs and + their wonderful license and while I've given up on + the idea of one day seeing a "UnifiedBSD" I am glad + to see different approaches sharing ideas in a + healthful environment. + <br> + Keywords: BSD, engineering, CAE, CAD, math, mechanical, + FreeBSD ports + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,engineering applications,pedro giffuni</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2826&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>51 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2826&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>51 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2826&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Constantine Murenin - OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + In this talk, we will discuss the past and present + history and the design principles of the OpenBSD + hardware sensors framework. Sensors framework + provides a unified interface for storing, registering + and accessing information about hardware monitoring + sensors. Sensor types include, but are not limited + to, temperature, voltage, fan RPM, time offset and + logical drive status. The framework spans + sensor_attach(9), sysctl(3), sysctl(8), sensorsd(8), + ntpd(8), snmpd(8) and more than 67 drivers, ranging + from I2C temperature sensors and Super I/O hardware + monitors to IPMI, RAID and SCSI enclosures. Several + third-party tools are also available, for example, + a plug-in for Nagios and ports/sysutils/symon. + Originally based on some ideas from NetBSD, the + framework has sustained many improvements in OpenBSD, + and was ported and committed to FreeBSD and DragonFly + BSD. + <br> + Constantine A. Murenin is an MMath graduate student + at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science + at the University of Waterloo (CA). Prior to his + graduate appointment, Constantine attended and + subsequently graduated from East Carolina University + (US) and De Montfort University (UK), receiving two + bachelor degrees in computer science, with honors + and honours respectively. A FreeBSD Google Summer + of Code 2007 Student, OpenBSD Committer and Mozilla + Contributor, Constantine's interests range from + standards compliance and usability at all levels, + to quiet computing and hardware monitoring. + <br> + <a href="http://Constantine.SU/">http://Constantine.SU/</a>; + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,openbsd,hardware sensors,constantine murenin</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2825&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>47 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2825&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>47 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2825&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Ion-Mihai Tetcu - Improving FreeBSD ports/packages quality</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + This talk is focused on ways to improve the quality + of FreeBSD's ports and packages and it's partially + based on the 5 months experience of writing and + running the consecutive versions of "QA Tindy". + <br> + Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu is a 28 years old FreeBSD + ports committer and maintains about 40 ports scattered + in the Ports Tree. He lives in Bucharest, Romania + where he runs and co-owns an IT& company and he's + a member of Romanian FreeBSD and FreeUnix User Group + (RoFUG). His non-IT interests include history, + philosophy and mountain climbing. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,ports,packages,ion-mihai tetcu</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2824&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>56 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2824&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>56 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2824&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Yvan Vanhullebus - IPSec tools: past, present and future</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + The first part will explain what have been major + changes since Manu's presentation at Bale's EuroBSDCon, + including more detailed informations on changes + which have a significant impact on administrator's + bad habits (why the common way of doing it is bad, + why it was sometimes needed in the past, how to do + it the good way now, why this is far better), on + both the UserLand (ipsec-tools project) and maybe + in [Free|Net]BSD kernels/ IPSec stacks. + <br> + The second part will talk about the future of the + project. News of the next major version (which may + be out or about to be out when we'll be ate + EuroBSDCon), news works which are planned or which + are done but not yet public, but also news about + the team: it's new members, new tools, what we would + like to do in tue future, a + <br> + Yvan VANHULLEBUS works as an R&D security engineer + for NETASQ since 2000, where he works on FreeBSD + OS. He started to work on KAME's IPSec stack in + 2001, provided many patches for various parts of + the stack, then became one of the maintainers of + ipsec-tools project, a fork of KAME's userland + daemon. He became a NetBSD developper when ipsec-tools + was migrated to NetBSD's CVS. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,ipsec,yvan vanhullebus</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2823&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>46 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2823&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>46 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2823&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code</title> + <desc>EuroBSDCon 2008 Keynote - George Neville-Neil - Thinking about thinking code</desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,george neville-neil</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2822&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>37 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2822&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>37 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2822&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Robert Watson - FreeBSD Network Stack Performance Optimizations for Modern Hardware</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + The arrival of high CPU core density, with commodity + quad-core notebooks and 32-core servers, combined + with 10gbps networking have transformed network + design principles for operating systems. This talk + will describe changes in the FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and + forthcoming 8.x network stacks required to exploit + multiple cores and serve 10gbps networks. The goal + of the session will be to introduce the audience + to general strategies used to improve performance, + their rationales, and their impact on applications + and users: + <ul> + <li>Introduction to the SMPng Project and the follow-on Netperf Project + <li>Workloads and performance measurement + <li>Efficient primitives to support modern network stacks + <li>Multi-core and cache-aware network memory allocator + <li>Fine-grained network stack locking + <li>Load-balancing and contention-avoidance across multiple CPUs + <li>CPU affinity for network stack data structures + <li>TCP performance enhancements including TSO, LRO, and TOE + <li>Zero-copy Berkely Packet Filter (BPF) buffers + <li>Direct network stack dispatch from interrupt handlers + <li>Multiple input and output queues + </ul> + <br> + Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of + Cambridge Computer Laboratory investinging operating + system and network security. Prior to joining the + Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, he was Senior + Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA + ISSO, a leading security research and development + organization, directing government and commercial + research contracts for customers that include DARPA, + the US Navy, and Apple Computer. His research + interests include operating system security, network + stack structure and performance, and windowing + system structure. He is also a member of the FreeBSD + Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,network stack,hardware,robert watson</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2821&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>53 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2821&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>53 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2821&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Martin Schuette - Improved NetBSD Syslogd</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + Martin Schuette has three main goals, defined by three + internet drafts to implement: + <ul> + <li>TLS transport is the most obvious improvement: it + provides a reliable network transport with data encryption + and peer authentication. To make full use of this a + buffering mechanism to bridge temporary network errors + is implemented as well. + <li>Syslog-protocol extends the message format to use + a complete timestamp, include a fully qualified domain + name, and allow UTF-8 messages. It also offers a + structured data field to unambiguously encode application + dependent information. + <li>Syslog-sign will allow any syslog sender to digitally + sign its messages, so their integrity can be verified + later. This enable the detection of loss, deletion or + other manipulation syslog data after network transfer + or archiving on storage media. + </ul> + <br> + Martin Schuette is a student of computer science in + Potsdam, Germany, and has been working as a part-time + system administrator for BSD servers since 2004. + <br> + In 2007 Martin Schuette already gave a talk on Syslog + at the Chemnitze Linux-Tage + (http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/vortraege/detail.html?idx=547 + in german; for a newer english version see these slides + for a seminar talk: + http://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~mschuett/uni/syslog-protocols-080522.pdf). + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,netbsd,syslogd,martin schuette</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2820&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>42 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2820&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>42 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2820&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Aggelos Economopoulos - An MP-capable network stack for DragonFlyBSD with minimal use of locks</title> + <desc> + Given the modern trend towards multi-core shared + memory multiprocessors, it is inconceivable for + production OS kernels not to be reentrant. The + typical approach for allowing multiple execution + contexts to simultaneously execute in kernel mode + has been to use fine-grained locking for synchronising + access to shared resources. While this technique + has been proven efficient, empirical evidence + suggests that the resulting locking rules tend to + be cumbersome even for the experienced kernel + programmer, leading to bugs that are hard to diagnose. + Moreover, scaling to more processors requires + extensive use of locks, which may impose unnecessary + locking overhead for small scale multiprocessor + systems. This talk will describe the typical approach + and then discuss the alternative approach taken in + the DragonFlyBSD network stack. We will give an + overview of the various protocol threads employed + for network I/O processing and the common-case code + paths for packet reception and transmission. + Additionally, we'll need to make a passing reference + to DragonFlyBSD's message passing model. This should + establish a baseline, allowing us to focus on the + recent work by the author to eliminate use of the + Big Giant Lock in the performance-critical paths + for the TCP and UDP protocols. The decision to + constrain this work on the two by far most widely-used + transport protocols was made in order to (a) limit + the amount of work necessary and (b) explore the + effectiveness of the approach on the cases that + matter at this point in time. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,dragonflybsd,mp,network stack,aggelos economopoulos</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2817&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>42 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2817&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>42 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2817&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Edd Barret - Modern Typesetting on BSD</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + Edd Barrett will speak about using the BSD Platform + as a means of typesetting from a practical standpoint + at EuroBSDcon 2008. Edd Barrett does not wish to + go into the technicalities of each typesetter, but + rather state which are good for certain types of + document, and which tools (ports and packages), + integrate well with the available typesetters. + <br> + Edd Barrett os a student from the UK, currently on + "placement year" as a systems administrator for + Bournemouth University. Open Source *NIX has been + his platform of choice for many years and he has + been using OpenBSD for about 3 years now, simply + because it is small, clean, correct and secure. + Just recently he has started developing things I + want or need for OpenBSD. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,typesetting,bsd,edd barrett</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2816&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>33 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2816&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>33 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2816&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Michael Dexter - Zen and the Art of Multiplicity Maintenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies from chroot to mult</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + Many BSD-licensed strategies of various levels of + maturity exist to implement multiplicity, herein + defined as the introduction of plurality to + traditionally singular computing environments via + isolation, virtualization, or other method. For + example, the chroot utility introduces an additional + isolated root execution environment within that of + the host; or an emulator provides highly-isolated + virtual systems that can run complete native or + foreign operating systems. Motivations for multiplicity + vary, but a demonstrable desire exists for users + to obtain root or run a foreign binary or operating + system. We propose a hands-on survey of portable + and integrated BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies + applicable to the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD + and NetBSD operating systems on the i386 architecture. + We will also address three oft-coupled disciplines: + software storage devices, the installation of + operating system and userlands in multiplicity + environments plus the management of select multiplicity + environments. Finally we will comment on each + strategies potential limits of isolation, compatibility, + independence and potential overhead in comparison + to traditional systems. Keywords: multiplicity, + virtualization, chroot, jail, hypervisor, xen, + compat. + <br> + Michael Dexter has used Unix systems since 1991 and + BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies for over five + years. He is the Program Manager at the BSD Fund + and Project Manager of the BSD.lv Project. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,bsd,michael dexter</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2815&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>38 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2815&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>38 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2815&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Nick Barkas - Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + Hello My name is Nick Barkas. I'm a master's student + studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska + hgskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just + begun work on a Google Summer of Code project with + FreeBSD: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in + UFS2 . I would like to present my results from + this project at EuroBSDCon this year. This project + is very much a work in progress now so it is a bit + difficult to summarize what I would ultimately + present. I will try to describe an outline, though. + First I will give background information on dirhash: + an explanation of the directory data structure in + UFS2, how directory lookups in this structure + necessitate a linear search, and how dirhash speeds + these lookups up without having to change anything + about the directory data structure. Next I will + explain the current limitation that dirhash's maximum + memory use must be manually specified by administrators, + or left at a small conservative default of 2MB. I + will explain some different methods I will have + explored to try and make this maximum memory limit + dynamically increase and decrease as the system has + more or less free memory, and which method I will + have ultimately settled on and implemented. Then + I'll present some test results of performance of + operations on very large directories with and without + dynamic memory allocation enabled for dirhash. Next + I will talk about how speed gains from dirhash are + limited by the fact that the hash tables exist only + in memory and must be recreated after each system + boot, as big directories are scanned for the first + time, or even have to be recreated for a directory + that has not been scanned in some time if its dirhash + has been discarded to free memory. These problems + can be eliminated by using an on-disk index for + directory entries. I will talk about some of the + challenges of implementing on-disk indexing, such + as remaining backwards compatible with older versions + of UFS2 and interoperating properly with softupdates. + Then, if my SoC project has permitted me time to + work on this aspect of it, I will explain some + possible methods for adding directory indexing to + UFS2 that meets these challenges, and which of those + ideas I will have implemented. Finally I will present + results of some benchmarks on this filesystem with + indices, and compare to performance with dirhash, + and with no indices or dirhashes. + <br> + Keywords: dirhash, ufs2, filesystems, performance tuning + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,ufs2,nick barkas</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2814&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>32 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2814&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>32 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2814&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Paul Richards - eXtreme Programming: FreeBSD a case study</title> + <desc> + Traditional project management methodologies are + typically based on the waterfall model where there + are distinct phases: requirements capture, design, + implementation, testing, delivery. Once a project + has moved on to the next phase there is no going + back. The end result is often a late project that + no-one wants anymore because the requirements have + fundamentally changed by the time the project is + delivered. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,extreme programming,paul richards</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2813&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>54 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2813&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>54 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2813&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Hauke Fath - Managing BSD desktop clients - Fencing in the herd</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + The members of the BSD family have traditionally + prospered off the desktop, as operating systems on + servers and embedded systems. The advent of MacOS + X has marked a change, and moved the desktop more + into focus. Modern desktop systems create a richer + software landscape, with more diverse requirements, + than their server counterparts. User demands, + software package interdependencies and frequent + security issues result in a change rate that can + put a considerable load on the admin staff. Without + central management tools, previously identical + installations diverge quickly. This paper looks at + concepts and strategies for managing tens to hundreds + of modern, Unix-like desktop clients. The available + management tools range from simple, image-based + software distribution, mainly used for setting up + uniform clients, to "intelligent" rule-based engines + capable of search-and-replace operations on + configuration files. We will briefly compare their + properties and limitations, then take a closer look + at Radmind, a suite for file level administration + of Unix clients. Radmind has been in use in the + Institute of Telecommunication at Technische + Universitt Darmstadt for over three years, managing + NetBSD and Debian Linux clients in the labs as well + as faculty members' machines. We will explore the + Radmind suite's underlying concepts and functionality. + In order to see how the concept holds up, we will + discuss real-world scenarios from the system + life-cycle of Installation, configuration changes, + security updates, component updates, and system + upgrades. + <br> + Hauke Fath works as a systems administrator for the + Institut fr Nachrichtentechnik (telecommunication) + at Technische Universitt Darmstadt. He has been + using NetBSD since 1994, when he first booted a + NetBSD 1.0A kernel on a Macintosh SE/30. NetBSD + helped shaping his career by causing a slow drift + from application programmer's work towards systems + and network administration. Hauke Fath holds a MS + in Physics and became a NetBSD developer in late + 2006. + <br> + Keywords: Managing Unix desktop clients, software + distribution, tripwire + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,bsd,desktop,hauke fath</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2812&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>50 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2812&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>50 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2812&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Joerg Sonnenberger - Sleeping beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops</title> + <desc> + This paper discusses the NetBSD Power Management + Framework (PMF) and related changes to the kernel. + The outlined changes allow NetBSD to support essential + functions like suspend-to-RAM on most post-Y2K X86 + machines. They are also the fundation for intelligent + handling of device activity by enabling devices + on-demand. This work is still progressing. Many of + the features will be available in the up-coming + NetBSD 5.0 release The NetBSD kernel is widely + regarded to be one of the cleanest and most portable + Operating System kernels available. For various + reasons it is also assumed that NetBSD only runs + well on older hardware. In the summer of 2006 Charles + Hannum, one of the founders of NetBSD, left with a + long mail mentioning as important issues the lack + of proper power management and suspendto- RAM + support. One year later, Jared D. McNeill posted a + plan for attacking this issue based on ideas derived + from the Windows Driver Model. This plan would + evolve into the new NetBSD Power Management Framework + (PMF for short). + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,netbsd,laptops,joerg sonnenberger</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2811&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>54 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2811&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>54 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2811&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Brooks Davis - Isolating cluster jobs for performance and predictability</title> + <desc> + The Aerospace Corporation operates a federally + funded research and development center in support + of national-security, civil and commercial space + programs. Many of our 2400+ engineers use a variety + of computing technologies to support their work. + Applications range from small models which are + easily handled by desktops to parameter studies + involving thousands of cpu hours and traditional, + large scale parallel codes such as computational + fluid dynamics and molecular modeling applications. + Our primary resources used to support these large + applications are computing clusters. Our current + primary cluster, the Fellowship cluster consists + of 352 dual-processor nodes with a total of 14xx + cores. Two additional clusters, beginning at 150 + dual-processor nodes each are being constructed to + augment Fellowship. As in In any multiuser computing + environment with limited resources, user competition + for resources is a significant burden. Users want + everything they need to do their job, right now. + Unfortunately, other users may need those resources + at the same time. Thus, systems to arbitrate this + resource contention are necessary. On Fellowship + we have deployed the Sun Grid Engine scheduler which + scheduled batch jobs across the nodes. In the next + section we discuss the performance problems that + can occur when sharing resources in a high performance + computing cluster. We then discuss range of + possibilities to address these problems. We then + explain the solutions we are investigating and + describe our experiments with them. We then conclude + with a discussion of future work. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,cluster,brooks davis</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2810&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>51 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2810&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>51 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2810&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Russel Sutherland - UTORvpn: A BSD based VPN service for the masses</title> + <desc> + The University of Toronto is a large educational + institutional with over 70,000 students and 10,000 + staff and faculty. For the past three years, we + have developed and implemented a ubiquitous VPN + service, based up on OpenVPN and FreeBSD. The service + has over 3000 active customers, with up to 35 + simultaneous users. The system supports, Linux, Mac + OS X and Windows XP/Vista/2000 clients. Tools have + been developed to create a central CA which enables + users to log in to a secure server and get their + customized client, certificates and configuration. + The NSIS installer is used to generate the customized + windows installers. Similar packages are generated + for the various Unix based clients. Additional + WWW/PHP based tools, have been developed to monitor + and log usage of the service, using standard graphs, + alarms for excessive use and a certificate revocation + mechanism. The system has been integrated into the + local identity management system (Kerberos/LDAP) + in order to authorize and authenticate users upon + initiation and per session usage. All code is Open + Source and freely available. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,freebsd,vpn,russel sutherland</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2808&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>52 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2808&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>52 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2808&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - George Neville-Neil - Four years of summer of code</title> + <desc> + The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to + provide students with real world experience + contributing to open source projects during the + summer break in university studies. Each year Google + selects a number of open source projects to act as + mentoring organizations. Students are invited to + submit project proposals for the open source projects + that are most interesting to them. FreeBSD was one + of the projects selected to participate in the + inaugural Summer of Code in 2005 and we have + participated each year since then. Over the past 4 + years a total of 79 students have participated in + the program and it has become a very significant + source of new committers to FreeBSD. This talk will + examine in detail the selection criteria for projects, + the impact that successful projects have had, and + some suggestions for how we can better leverage + this program in the future. + </desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,google soc,george neville-neil</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2807&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>27 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2807&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>27 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2807&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Anttii Kantee - Converting kernel file systems to services</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + ABSD/UNIX operating system is traditionally split + into two pieces: the kernel and userspace. Historically + the reasons for this were clear: the UNIX kernel + was a simple entity. However, over time the kernel + has grown more and more complex. Currently, most + of the same functionality is available both in + userspace and the kernel, but under different names. + Examples include synchronization routines and + threading support. For instance, to lock a mutex + in the NetBSD kernel, the call is mutex_enter(), + while in userspace the routine which does exactly + the same thing is known as pthread_mutex_enter(). + Taking another classic example, a BSD style OS has + malloc()/free() available both in userspace and the + kernel, but with different linkage (the kernel + malloc interface is currently being widely deprecated, + though). This imposes a completely arbitrary division + between the kernel and userspace. Most functionality + provided by an opearating system should be treated + as a service instead of explicitly pinning it down + as a userspace daemon or a kernel driver. Currently, + due to the arbitrarily difference in programming + interface names, functionality must be explicitly + ported between the kernel and userspace if it is + to run in one or the other environment. By unifying + the environments where possible, the arbitrary + division is weakened and porting between these + environments becomes simpler. + <br> + Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD developer for many + many moons. He has managed to work on quite a few + bits and pieces of a BSD system: userland utilities, + the pkgsrc packaging system, networking, virtual + memory, device drivers, hardware support and file + systems. + <br> + See also <a + href="http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm">http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/rump.htm</a>; + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,anttii kantee</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2806&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>55 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2806&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>55 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2806&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="eurobsdcon" added="20081022"> + <title>EuroBSDCon 2008 - Matthieu Herrb - Input handling in wscons and X.Org</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + This talk will present the different layers that + handle input, from the key that gets pressed or the + mouse motion to the applications, all the way through + the kernel drivers, X drivers and libraries, in the + case of the OpenBSD/NetBSD wscons driver and the + current and future X.Org server. It will cover stuff + like keyboard mappings, touch-screen calibration, + multi-pointer X or input coordinates transformations. + It will show some problems of current implementations + and try to show how current evolutions can solve + them. + <br> + Matthieu Herrb is maintaing X on OpenBSD. I've been + using X on various systems (SunOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, + Mac OS X,...) since 1989. He has been a member of + the XFree86 Core Team for a short period in 2003 + and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation BoD. + Matthieu Herrb works at LAAS a research laborarory + of the French National Research Agency (CNRS) both + on robotics and network security. + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html</overview>; + <tags>eurobsdcon,eurobsdcon2008,wscons,x.org,matthieu herrb</tags> <files> <file> - <url>http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/slides/oldmistakes.pdf</url>; - <size>65 Kb</size> - <desc>Slides</desc> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2805&type=ogg</url>; + <desc>OGG</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>57 minutes</length> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2805&type=mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>57 minutes</length> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://audiovideocours.u-strasbg.fr/avc/courseaccess?id=2805&type=pdf</url>; + <desc>PDF</desc> + <size>1 byte</size> + <length>n pages</length> <tags>pdf</tags> </file> </files> @@ -3609,6 +5216,252 @@ <!-- Source: New York City *BSD User Group --> + <item source="nycbug" added="20081116"> + <title>Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + <p> + Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for + performance events such as retiring instructions + and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries + in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers + access to APIs which make it possible to measure + performance without modifying source code and with + minimal intrusion into application execution. This + talk will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how + to use it. + </p><p> + Bio: George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk + McKusick of The Design and Implementation of the + FreeBSD Operating System. He works on networking + an operating systems for fun and profit. + </p> + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10166</overview>; + <tags>nycbug,presentation,george neville-neil,counters</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-11-05-08.mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + <size>4 Mb</size> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="nycbug" added="20081014"> + <title>New York City BSD Con 2008: BSD v. GPL - a.k.a. not the sequel to "BSD is Dying"</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + <p> + BSD vs GPL is a sweeping epic, focused on the + dichotomy between good and evil. It peers inside + the hearts and minds of the creators of these + movements and dissects their battle for world + domination. No common documentary will dare to + follow the path that BSD vs GPL blazes. + </p> + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://talks.dixongroup.net/nycbsdcon2008/</overview>; + <tags>nycbsdcon,nycbsdcon2008,presentation,humor,bsd versus gpl,jason dixon</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://talks.dixongroup.net/nycbsdcon2008/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>BSDvGPL.mp4</url> + <size>15 Mb</size> + <desc>MP4</desc> + <tags>mp4</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="nycbug" added="20081124"> + <title>New York City BSD Con 2008</title> + <desc> + Slides of presentations given at New York City BSD + Conference 2008. + </desc> + <overview>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/presentations/</overview>; + <tags>nycbsdcon2008,nycbsdcon,presentation</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://www.squid-cache.org/~adrian/talks/20081007%20-%20NYCBSDCON%20-%20Disk%20IO.pdf</url>; + <size>197 Kb</size> + <length>92 pages</length> + <desc>Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.</desc> + <tags>pdf,freebsd,high performance,adrian chadd</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/dillon_hammer.tgz</url>; + <size>820 Kb</size> + <length>16 pages</length> + <desc>Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.</desc> + <tags>html,hammer,metthew dillon</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/magnusson_pcc.pdf</url>; + <size>123 Kb</size> + <length>29 pages</length> + <desc>Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.</desc> + <tags>pdf,pcc,anders magnusson</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.openbsd.org/papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/</url>; + <length>21 pages</length> + <desc>Kurt Miller: OpenBSD's Position Independent Executables (PIE) Implementation.</desc> + <tags>html,openbsd,pie,kurt miller</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.silby.com/nycbsdcon08/NYCBSDCon-tcpdiff.pdf</url>; + <size>88 Kb</size> + <length>28 pages</length> + <desc>Mike Silbersack: Detecting TCP regressions with tcpdiff.</desc> + <tags>pdf,tcp regression,tcpdiff,mike silbersack</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/wright_hardware-wrong.pdf</url>; + <size>1.7 Mb</size> + <length>22 pages</length> + <desc>Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".</desc> + <tags>pdf,hardware,jason l wright</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/vidal_atf.pdf</url>; + <size>570 Kb</size> + <length>18 pages</length> + <desc>Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.</desc> + <tags>pdf,netbsd,atf,julio m merino vidal</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="nycbug" added="20081013"> + <title>New York City BSD Con 2008</title> + <desc> + Audio recordings of presentations given at New York + City BSD Conference 2008. Courtesy of nikolai at + fetissov.org. The main page also has links to the + slides. + </desc> + <overview>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon08/</overview>; + <tags>nycbsdcon2008,nycbsdcon,presentation</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon08/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>1.1.mp3</url> + <size>14 Mb</size> + <desc>Adrian Chadd: High-throughput concurrent disk IO in FreeBSD.</desc> + <tags>mp3,freebsd,high performance,adrian chadd</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.2.mp3</url> + <size>9 Mb</size> + <desc>Jason L Wright: When Hardware Is Wrong, or "They can Fix It In Software".</desc> + <tags>mp3,hardware,jason l wright</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.3.mp3</url> + <size>14 Mb</size> + <desc>Metthew Dillon: The HAMMER File System.</desc> + <tags>mp3,hammer,metthew dillon</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.4.mp3</url> + <size>15 Mb</size> + <desc>Anders Magnusson: Design and Implementation of the Portable C Compiler.</desc> + <tags>mp3,pcc,anders magnusson</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.5.mp3</url> + <size>11 Mb</size> + <desc>Michael Shalayeff: Porting PCC. </desc> + <tags>mp3,pcc,michael shalayeff</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.6.mp3</url> + <size>10 Mb</size> + <desc>Julio M. Merino Vidal: An introduction to the Automated Testing Framework (ATF) for NetBSD.</desc> + <tags>mp3,netbsd,atf,julio m merino vidal</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>1.7.mp3</url> + <size>15 Mb</size> + <desc>Jeremy C. 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These are independent programs with substantially + different purposes, but they are often used in + conjunction. In this talk, I describe a flaw in + their interaction, and then present our solution + called public-key sudo. + </p><p> + Public-key sudo is an extension to the sudo + authentication mechanism which allows for public + key authentication using the SSH public key framework. + I describe our implementation of a generic SSH + authentication module and the sudo modifications + required to use this module. + </p><p> + Bio:<br> + Matthew Burnside is a Ph.D. student in the Computer + Science department at Columbia University, in New + York. He works for Professor Angelos Keromytis in + the Network Security Lab. He received his B.A and + M.Eng from MIT in 2000, and 2002, respectively. His + research interests are in network anonymity, trust + management, and enterprise-scale policy enforcement. + </p> + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10160</overview>; + <tags>nycbug,presentation,sudo,public key,matthew burnside</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-08-06-08.mp3</url>; + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + <size>2 Mb</size> + </file> + </files> + </item> + <item source="nycbug" added="20080703"> <title>Configuration Management with Cfengine</title> <desc><![CDATA[ @@ -4367,7 +6220,7 @@ slides. </desc> <overview>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/</overview>; - <tags>nycbug,presentation</tags> + <tags>nycbug,nycbsdcon,nycbsdcon2006,presentation</tags> <files> <prefix>http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/</prefix>; <file> @@ -4710,10 +6563,96 @@ </files> </item> - <!-- Source: meetbsd + <!-- Source: meetbsdcom + --> + + <item source="meetbsdcom" added="20081119"> + <title>MeetBSD 2008 in California - Presentation</title> + <desc> + MeetBSD 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, + California to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary! + </desc> + <overview>http://meetbsd.com/speakers</overview>; + <tags>meetbsd,meetbsd2008,freebsd,presentations</tags> + <files> + <prefix>http://meetbsd.com/images/slides/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>slides_robert_watson_networking.pdf</url> + <size>5.5 Mb</size> + <length>43 pages</length> + <desc>FreeBSD Network Stack Performance - Optimizations for Modern Hardware by Robert Watson</desc> + <tags>robert watson,network stack performance,modern hardware,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_brooks_davis.pdf</url> + <size>900 Kb</size> + <length>24 pages</length> + <desc>Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability by Brooks Davis</desc> + <tags>brooks davis,cluster,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_warner_losh.pdf</url> + <size>685 Kb</size> + <length>31 pages</length> + <desc>Embedding FreeBSD by M. Warner Losh</desc> + <tags>warner losh,embedding freebsd,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_dru_lavigne.pdf</url> + <size>80 Kb</size> + <length>19 pages</length> + <desc>BSD Certification by Dru Lavigne</desc> + <tags>dru lavigne,bsd certification,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_kris_moore.pdf</url> + <size>580 Kb</size> + <length>45 pages</length> + <desc>PC-BSD 7 - A Developer's Perspective by Kris Moore</desc> + <tags>kris moore,pc-bsd,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_pawel.pdf</url> + <size>470 Kb</size> + <length>45 pages</length> + <desc>A closer look at the ZFS file system by Pawel Jakub Dawidek</desc> + <tags>pawel jakub dawidek,zfs,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_robert_watson_freebsd_foundation.pdf</url> + <size>3.2 Mb</size> + <length>8 pages</length> + <desc>FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition by Robert Watson</desc> + <tags>robert watsom,freebsd foundation,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_philip_paeps.pdf</url> + <size>256 Kb</size> + <length>20 pages</length> + <desc>Crypto Acceleration by Philip Paeps</desc> + <tags>philip paeps,crypto acecelaration,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_zach_loafman.pdf</url> + <size>136 Kb</size> + <length>25 pages</length> + <desc>Isilon and FreeBSD by Zach Loafman</desc> + <tags>zach loafman,isilon,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>slides_kris_kennaway.pdf</url> + <size>172 Kb</size> + <length>29 pages</length> + <desc>"Help, my system is slow!" Profiling tools, tips and tricks by Kris Kennaway</desc> + <tags>kris kennaway,profiling,pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <!-- Source: meetbsdorg --> - <item source="meetbsd" added="20080528"> + <item source="meetbsdorg" added="20080528"> <title>MeetBSD 2007 - Presentations and recordings</title> <desc> MeetBSD 2007 at the Conference Centre-PWSBiA Congress in Warsaw @@ -5289,6 +7228,98 @@ </files> </item> + <item source="openbsd" added="20081118"> + <title>OpenBSD 4.4 Release Song - "Source Wars - Episode IV - Trial of the BSD Knights"</title> + <desc><![CDATA[ + <p> + Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history + of the Berkeley Unix distributions for the O'Reilly + book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source + Revolution". We recommend you read his story, + entitled "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From + AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable" first, to see + how Kirk remembers how we got here. Sadly, since + it showed up in book form originally, this text has + probably not been read by enough people. + </p> + <p> + The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement + documents were not public until recently; their + disclosure has made the facts more clear. But the + story of how three people decided to free the BSD + codebase of corporate pollution -- and release it + freely -- is more interesting than the lawsuit which + followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which + hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a + critical period. But how did a bunch of guys go + through the effort of replacing so much AT&T code + in the first place? After all, companies had lots + of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they + not afraid? + </p> + <p> + After a decade of development, most of the AT&T + code had already been replaced by university + researchers and their associates. So Keith Bostic, + Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG + group) started going through the 4.3BSD codebase + to cleanse the rest. Keith, in particular, built a + ragtag team (in those days, USENIX conferences were + a gold mine for such team building) and led these + rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T + code, piece by piece, starting with the libraries + and userland programs. Anyone who helped only got + credit as a Contributor -- people like Chris Torek + and a cast of .. hundreds more. + </p> + <p> + Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit + more careful checking, this led to the release of + a clean tree called Net/2 which was given to the + world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free + source code the world had ever received (for those + days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice). + </p> + <p> + Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to + sell a production system based on this free code + base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories + (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB. Eventually + AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described + in the lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A + few newer developments (and more free code) were + added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite. + Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its + own 4.4 release (and for a lot less than $1000 per + copy). + </p> + <p> + The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, + Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, and all of those who + contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free. + </p> + ]]></desc> + <overview>http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#44</overview>; + <tags>openbsd,artwork</tags> + <files> + <prefix>ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/</prefix>; + <file> + <url>song44.mp3</url> + <size>5.6 Mb</size> + <length>3 minutes 5 seconds</length> + <desc>MP3 version</desc> + <tags>mp3</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>song44.ogg</url> + <size>4.4 Mb</size> + <length>3 minutes 5 seconds</length> + <desc>Ogg version</desc> + <tags>ogg</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + <item source="openbsd" added="20080503"> <title>OpenBSD 4.3 Release Song - "Home to Hypocrisy"</title> <desc><![CDATA[ @@ -7372,6 +9403,123 @@ </files> </item> + <!-- Hostobzor + --> + <item source="hostobzor" added="20081124"> + <title>Server deployment in mass-hosting environment using FreeBSD Ports system by Stanislav Sedov (in russian)</title> + <overview>http://blog.springdaemons.com/freebsd/</overview>; + <desc> + <![CDATA[ + <p> + Recently I have been attending Hostobzor 12th, the + Russian conference of hosting providers, beeing + held at Raivola hotel near St. Petersburg. The event + was great as always thanks to organizers. There was + a number of intersting talks given, a lot of + interesting discussions held, and, what I appreciate + better, a lot of new people with great ideas met. + </p><p> + I gave a talk on using the FreeBSD Ports system to + mange a large-scale virtual hosting installations + based on Hosting Telesystems experience. I tried + to describe in detail how we use the ports collection + to deploy a large number of servers diverced by + architecture and OS versions, how we build packages + and distribute them among servers, talked about how + we use Mercurial VCS to incrementally merge upstream + changes into our modified ports collection and + FreeBSD src trees. Hopefully, I've not screwed it + much... At least, some people was interested a lot + and asked interesting questions. + </p> + ]]> + </desc> + <tags>hostobzor,hostobzor12,freebsd,ports,stanislav sedov,russian</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://blog.springdaemons.com/assets/2008/11/23/text.pdf</url>; + <size>61 Kb</size> + <length>5 pages</length> + <desc>PDF version</desc> + <tags>paper,pdf</tags> + </file> + <file> + <url>http://blog.springdaemons.com/assets/2008/11/23/slides.pdf</url>; + <size>470 Kb</size> + <length>30 pages</length> + <desc>PDF version</desc> + <tags>slides,pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <!-- devsummit - cambridge + --> + <item source="devsummit-cambridge" added="20080825"> + <title>Welcome - Cambridge University FreeBSD DevSummit - Robert Watson</title> + <overview>http://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit</overview>; + <desc> + Welcome by Robert Watson + </desc> + <tags>devsummit2008,devsummit,pdf,freebsd,robert watson</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=20080815-welcome.pdf</url>; + <size>264 Kb</size> + <length>12 pages</length> + <desc>PDF version</desc> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="devsummit-cambridge" added="20080825"> + <title>variant Symlinks - Brooks Davis</title> + <overview>http://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit</overview>; + <desc> + <title>Variant Symlinks by Brooks Davis</title> + </desc> + <tags>devsummit2008,devsummit,pdf,freebsd,variant symlinks,brooks davis</tags> + <files> + <file> + <url>http://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=variant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf</url>; + <size>213 Kb</size> + <length>15 pages</length> + <desc>PDF version</desc> + <tags>pdf</tags> + </file> + </files> + </item> + + <item source="devsummit-cambridge" added="20080825"> + <title>Cambridge FreeBSD DevSummit2008 - Photos - Kris Kennaway</title> + <overview>http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/Cambridge/</overview>; + <desc> + Photos of the 2008 FreeBSD DevSummit at the Cambridge University + by Kris Kennaway. + </desc> + <tags>devsummit2008,devsummit,photos,kris kennaway</tags> + </item> + + <item source="devsummit-cambridge" added="20080825"> + <title>Cambridge FreeBSD DevSummit2008 - Photos - Ollivier Robert</title> + <overview>http://gallery.keltia.net/v/voyages/conferences/devsummit-cam/</overview>; + <desc> + Photos of the 2008 FreeBSD DevSummit at the Cambridge University by Ollivier Robert + </desc> + <tags>devsummit2008,devsummit,photos,ollivier robert</tags> + </item> + + <item source="devsummit-cambridge" added="20080825"> + <title>Cambridge FreeBSD DevSummit2008 - Photos - Simon Nielsen</title> + <overview>http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/gallery/cambridge-2008/</overview>; + <desc> + Photos of the 2008 FreeBSD DevSummit at the Cambridge University + by Simon Nielsen. + </desc> + <tags>devsummit2008,devsummit,photos,simon nielsen</tags> + </item> + </items> @@ -7526,11 +9674,16 @@ <url>http://fosdem.org/</url>; </source> - <source id="meetbsd"> + <source id="meetbsdorg"> <name>MeetBSD</name> <url>http://www.meetbsd.org/</url>; </source> + <source id="meetbsdcom"> + <name>MeetBSD</name> + <url>http://www.meetbsd.com/</url>; + </source> + <source id="bsdconspain"> <name>BSDCon Spain</name> <url>http://www.bsdcon.net/</url>; @@ -7543,5 +9696,15 @@ ]]></url> </source> + <source id="devsummit-cambridge"> + <name>FreeBSD Developer Summit - Cambridge</name> + <url>http://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit</url>; + </source> + + <source id="hostobzor"> + <name>Hostobzor, the Russian conference of hosting provider</name> + <url>http://www.hostobzor.ru/</url>; + </source> + </sources> </multimedia> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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