Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:51:35 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference Message-ID: <68533.925278695.1@zippy.cdrom.com>
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------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:51:35 -0700 Message-ID: <68533.925278695@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Berkeley, California (April 27, 1999) USENIX is providing grants to the OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Debian Linux development projects, to support each of them in issuing new releases. These releases will be given free of charge to all 1999 Annual Conference technical session registrants. The 1999 Annual Conference takes place June 6-11, in Monterey, California. Programs for the tutorial and technical sessions, including the FREENIX track, and associated events are online. Please go to http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99 USENIX is helping to ensure the development process for open source software will be characterized by intense yet healthy competition. The FREENIX track at the annual conference is also part of this effort. It is devoted to high level technical discussion of open source software. FREENIX offers peer-refereed papers, expert talks, and evening sessions led by the likes of Linus Torvalds, Kirk McKusick, Theodore Ts'o, Theo de Raadt, and other leading developers. The conference keynote is by John Ousterhout, creator of Tcl/Tk and leading figure in the open source world. His attention will be on a fundamental shift in software development to integration applications - created by coordinating and extending existing applications, protocols, frameworks, and devices. Refereed papers at the conference are on topics of especially high interest: management of resource systems, file systems, virtual memory systems, storage systems, security, web server performance and O/S performance. The Invited talks concentrate on the extremely practical; topics include: UNIX/Open System & Y2K, IP Multicast, E-mail Bombs, IPv6, IP Telephony. 24 tutorials are being offered over three days, with Eric Allman, Tom Christiansen, Peter Galvin, Evi Nemeth, and Marcus Ranum among the instructors. Courses range over systems administration, security, Linux, high availability, kernel internals, Perl, performance tuning, network programming and configuration, and more. Within the conference, USENIX is sponsoring the Second Extreme Linux Workshop which will concentrate on issues of supercomputer-class and graphics systems created with off-the-shelf computers combined with high speed networking, and glued together with Linux. The workshop has very limited seating and attendance requires early registration. A related tutorial on how to build, program and administer a Beowulf system using Linux OS is being offered by members of the Caltech staff and there will be evening BoFs on Extreme Linux systems, where vendors (Extreme Linux hardware and software) will be encouraged to display their systems. And, as always at the annual conference, there's lots of discussion in the halls and over beers. This year the Conference is capped by the Reception featuring lucious desserts served in the fantastic Monterey Bay Aquarium. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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