From owner-freebsd-announce Mon Jan 28 1:11:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-131.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5300B37B400; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8DC9466C11; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:09:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:09:11 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: announce@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Change of FreeBSD Security Officer Message-ID: <20020128010911.A50488@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline It's with mixed feelings that I'm announcing my resignation as FreeBSD Security Officer. Over the past few months as my PhD has progressed, my available free time has dropped significantly and it's clear that I no longer have the time to adequately fulfil the duties of security officer. I still intend to remain a FreeBSD commiter and will continue to assist in security matters as my free time allows (Paul, Guido, Warner; is there room down there for another emeritus, or do we need to construct that 10th Circle yet?). The FreeBSD core team has approved Jacques Vidrine as my successor; Jacques has been a member of the FreeBSD Security Officer Team for the last 6 months or so, and has taken charge of managing and releasing advisories for the past few months while I have been busy. I'm confident that FreeBSD security is in good hands with Jacques in charge. As always, the security officer team can be contacted at security-officer@FreeBSD.org. Kris Kennaway --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VRU2Wry0BWjoQKURAjEcAKCoiU9o8Sf/8dN0kuYtJEWfIX5jSACg0G4h SMNOotihvjhxAMDnN2DG2pc= =9+/u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v-- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Jan 29 20: 1:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9932B37B400 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id F181F4B661; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:50:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:50:42 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: 4.5-RELEASE is now available Message-ID: <20020130035042.GU9395@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="s7VmGO2m7mcnuX8Q" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --s7VmGO2m7mcnuX8Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, the very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE branch of development. Since FreeBSD 4.4 was released in September 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, made several substantial performance improvements, and addressed a wide variety of security issues. In particular, there have been significant enhancements in the areas of network communications and filesystems. FreeBSD 4.5 contains improvements to the TCP stack to provide better throughput. In addition, TCP performance is aided by larger default buffer sizes. Finally, FreeBSD 4.5 contains new mechanisms to mitigate the effects of TCP Denial of Service attacks. The FFS filesystem benefits from a new directory layout strategy that has demonstrated significantly better performance for operations traversing large directory structures. Various bugs were located and fixed in the FFS and NFS code with the help of a filesystem exercising program originally developed at Apple Computer, Inc. Those users doing fresh installations of FreeBSD should note some changes for newly created filesystems, intended to improve the "out of the box" performance of FreeBSD. In particular, sysinstall(8) now enables Soft Updates (a strategy for improving both performance and reliability of on-disk data structures) for new filesystems it creates and the newfs(8) program will now, by default, create filesystems with larger block sizes. For more information about the most significant changes with this release of FreeBSD, please see the release notes : http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.5R/notes.html Availability ------------ 4.5-RELEASE is available for the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ http://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/=20 ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://freebsd.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD/ If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD : FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html Each CD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set. FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html for additional information about FreeBSD mirror sites. The FreeBSD installation instructions have recently been significantly enhanced. Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook, available online at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html, provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD. Acknowledgments ---------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5, including Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall. In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.5-RELEASE includes: Robert Watson : Release Engineering John Baldwin : Release Engineering Bruce A. Mah : Release Documentation Steve Price : Package Building Wilko Bulte : Alpha Platform Release Engineering Peter Wemm : Ports Cluster System Administrator Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD Committers , without whom there would be nothing to release, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions. Thanks! - Murray --s7VmGO2m7mcnuX8Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8V22StNcQog5FH30RAjEoAJ9lhTRzES4VRO5SoTKHbBQ8qKIanQCgrdRI tBRwdplSXhgIDYOr15GrjQw= =bV2n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s7VmGO2m7mcnuX8Q-- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jan 30 15:52:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA3D37B416 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA67516 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.254.205] (cerberus [192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0ULrXG96464 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:50:40 -0800 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: Finally, printed documentation! Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Prime Time Freeware is pleased to announce the DOSSIER series of topical document collections for Free and Open Source software. Each volume covers a given subtopic (e.g., "Email: Exim 3"), including a variety of documents (articles, man pages, papers, READMEs, ...). DOSSIER provides diverse and timely coverage, using mechanized editing, demand printing, and Internet-based ordering. As Peter Salus says in The Bookworm (:login; February, 2002): Rich Morin has begun a wonderful series, called DOSSIER [= Documenting Open Source Software for Industry, Education, and Research]. Rich has collected documents, placed them into a straightforward taxonomy, and printed them in handy 400 page volumes. I spent several hours reading in the Email: Mail and Sendmail volume. (There's also an Email: Exim 3 volume.) It's just great! There are File Systems, Kernel, and Text volumes, three PostgreSQL volumes, and two Python volumes. They run just over $40 each, including postage. A bargain. Collect 'em all from: www.ptf.com/dossier. Great idea, Rich. A bargain, indeed. Many administrators and programmers would love to have convenient sets of printed documentation, but few of us have the time to keep them up to date. So, we "get by" with online versions, supplemented by locally-printed copies. Unfortunately, online access has some failings. The resolution is low; the viewing angle is often hard to adjust, manipulation can be difficult, and annotation can be impossible. Printed volumes, with a millennium or so of interface design and testing, have undeniable merits. When you need to understand a complex package or topic, a relevant document collection can be an invaluable resource. Having it arrive at the touch of a button, at a reasonable price, is magic indeed. DOSSIER volumes and sets may be purchased at BSDMall (www.bsdmall.com); general information is available at www.ptf.com/dossier. An overview of the motivation and rationale for DOSSIER may be found in DOSSIER and the Meta Project (Part 1) www.daemonnews.org/200201/meta.html -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jan 30 17:54:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from clover.kientzle.com (user-112uh9a.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.69.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDCC37BA6E for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from acm.org (user-112uh9d.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.69.45]) by clover.kientzle.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0V09EZ72668 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Message-ID: <3C588B29.5000100@acm.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:09:13 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011206 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD-related courses in San Francisco References: <3C4126E2.2030207@kientzle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Building a Web Server Using Open Source Software Monday-Tuesday, February 25-26, 2002 425 Market Street, San Francisco, California http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/eng/br435/10-1.html In this two-day hands-on workshop, you will install the FreeBSD operating system and Apache web server and learn how to configure and manage your own PC-based web server. Course fee includes all software and reference books, 12 hours of instruction, lunch and refreshments each day. New this term: The course has been expanded from one to two full days in order to cover the new Apache 2.0 web server and provide additional time to learn practical web server management skills. Instructor: Tim Kientzle, kientzle@acm.org Design of High-performance Web Clusters Tuesday/Thursday, February 19 and 21, 2002 425 Market Street, San Francisco, California http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/eng/br435/6-1.html By combining multiple computers, you can construct systems that deliver top performance and world-class reliability. We'll take a detailed look at load-balancing and failover, how to partition services across multiple machines, and how to administer these systems year after year. We'll also discuss the issues that arise in developing and evaluating software to take advantage of a web cluster's unique capabilities. Related courses: Building Database-Driven Web Applications Using Perl http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/eng/br435/11-1.html Thursday-Friday, February 28-March 1, 2002 San Francisco This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jan 30 23:38:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from atcmpg.ATComputing.nl (proxy.ATComputing.nl [195.108.229.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E5C37B417 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from walter@localhost) by atcmpg.ATComputing.nl (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id OAA22883 for freebsd-announce@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:18:09 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:18:09 +0100 From: Walter Belgers To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: 2nd European BSD Conference Message-ID: <20020130141809.A22849@atcmpg.ATComputing.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Accept-Languages: nl, en X-PGP-key: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0637BF6E Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Announcement and Call for Papers 2nd European BSD Conference November, 2002 Amsterdam, The Netherlands A conference organized by Stichting EuroBSDCon OVERVIEW The Berkeley Software Distributions (BSDs) represent one of the oldest and most vigorous streams of Open Source development. Together, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and BSD/OS represent millions of servers and desktops. The BSDs have long been part of the backbone of the Internet, in everything from embedded applications to large server installations, and will soon be widely deployed on consumer desktops. If you want to develop cutting-edge network applications, then the European BSD conference is the place to be. Meet all the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. This second European BSD conference will feature one day of tutorials and two days of technical sessions. The combination of technical tracks, invited talks, tutorials, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions provides an opportunity for people of all experience levels to learn from BSD experts, professionals with real world experience, and industry leaders. The official language at the conference will be English. The exact date of the conference will be announced on the website. TUTORIAL PROGRAM (1 day) On the first day of the conference, a selection of practical, problem- solving, in-depth tutorials will be presented to you by the most authoritative, popular and widely acclaimed speakers in the field. If you're interested in presenting a tutorial or would like to share ideas about what would make a terrific tutorial, please contact the Program Committee at pc@eurobsdcon2002.org. TECHNICAL CONFERENCE (2 days) The next two days will offer comprehensive technical sessions, including keynote address, presentations of refereed papers and invited talks. Join peers and gurus during the enjoyable social event. The European BSD conference seeks original and innovative papers about the applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-derived operating systems. Papers that analyze problem areas and draw important conclusions from practical experience are especially welcome. Presentations are being solicited in areas including but not limited to: * BSD kernel hacking * Embedded BSD application development and deployment * Device drivers * IPv6 deployment on BSD * BSD and security (Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, VPNs, practical cryptography, auditing and computer forensics) * High performance networking * System and network performance tuning * Innovative BSD system administration tools and techniques * Running BSD on your toaster REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS Papers for the technical sessions will be reviewed by the program committee. An award will be given at the conference for the best paper in this track. An extended abstract is required for the paper selection process. Abstracts must be submitted through the web form on http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/. Abstracts accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. These final papers are held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings. By agreeing to present your paper at the European BSD conference, you also give license to the conference organizers that it may be published on the BSD conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts due: June 24, 2002 Notification to speakers: July 12, 2002 Final papers due: October 7, 2002 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Program chair Walter Belgers, Giga Computer Consultant, NL Program Committee Frank van der Linden, Wasabi Systems, NL Wim Vandeputte, KD85.com bvba, BE Paul Kranenburg, Erasmus University, NL Event Organization Guido van Rooij, chairman, Madison Gurkha, NL Jos Jansen, treasurer, Snow bv, NL Walter Belgers, secretary, Giga Computer Consultant, NL Marielle Klatten, conference organizer, ICONIQ, NL Complete program and registration information will be available in July 2002. For questions not being answered at http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/, please contact the Iconiq office by e-mail: info@eurobsdcon2002.org This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Feb 1 0: 1:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C5C37B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC20C1D169 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:30:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: FreeBSD Services announcement. From: Paul Richards To: Announce@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 01 Feb 2002 06:30:22 +0000 Message-Id: <1012545022.71468.8.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Services Ltd is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, http://www.freebsd-services.com The launch of the website means that our unique DVD distribution is now widely available for purchase. This is the only distribution of FreeBSD that includes all the pre-built packages and all the distributable ports distfiles on just two disks. The first disk is a bootable dual-layer DVD-ROM that can be used for system installation and includes 5200+ pre-built packages. It can also be used as a system recovery disk and a live filesystem. The second disk is double sided. On one side is a single-layer DVD-ROM image containing a full ports tree, including ~6500 distribution archives and which can be mounted directly as /usr/ports. The other side contains a CD-ROM image that can be used as a system installation and recovery disk in those situations where a DVD-ROM drive is not available. It has the same layout as the first DVD-ROM disk but with fewer pre-built packages. The website is the culmination of 4 months of work to develop a fully featured ordering and fulfillment system, capable of handling all the taxation and privacy issues required to trade throughout Europe and the world. Over the coming weeks and months we will be adding more products to the website, including a wide range of hardware, merchandise, support contracts and internet services. About FreeBSD Services Ltd. FreeBSD Services Ltd was formed in 1995 originally under the name of Originative Solutions by founder core member Paul Richards. To reflect the emphasis that the company placed on developing and supporting FreeBSD it changed its name to FreeBSD Services Ltd on September 12, 2001 and its management was expanded to include Brian Somers, a well known FreeBSD project member. Now in its seventh year of trading, FreeBSD Services Ltd is one of the most established companies supporting and developing FreeBSD around the world. FreeBSD Services Ltd is unique in being the only company that is managed entirely by members of the project, with all funds of the company being used to support FreeBSD committers directly. Not a penny of our profits goes to anyone other than project members. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-announce Sat Feb 2 19:28:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9312437B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA03070 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:45:04 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020202194321.02dced90@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:44:51 -0700 To: announce@freeBSD.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Call for Participation: O'Reilly Open Source Convention Operating Systems Track Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org O'Reilly Open Source Convention Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina July 22-26, 2002 -- San Diego, CA Call for Participation - Operating Systems Track The theme of this year's Open Source Convention is "Doing More With Less." This has several aspects: how business can do more with less money (by adopting open source software), how developers do more with less time and financial support, how to make the most of what you've got (performance tuning and little-known-of features), and how open source software manages to avoid the bloat that characterizes closed-source software. The Operating Systems track at this year's convention will feature presentations about Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X Performance tuning, embedded operating systems, APIs and ABIs, kernel hacks, device drivers, porting, virtual machines, and security. Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a tutorial, or participating in panel discussions regarding operating systems at this year's Open Source Convention are invited to submit proposals. Proposals will be considered in two classes: tutorials and convention presentations (sessions). Presentations by marketing staff or with a marketing focus will not be accepted; neither will submissions made by anyone other than the proposed speaker. Session presentations are 45 or 90 minutes long, and tutorials are either a half-day (3 hours) or a full day (6 hours). If you are interested in participating in or moderating panel discussions, or otherwise contributing to the conference, please let us know (and please include your area of expertise). If you have an idea for a panel discussion or a particularly provocative group of panelists that you'd love to see square off, feel free to send your suggestions to osconidea@oreilly.com. Submitting Proposals Proposals may be submitted using the form at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/e_sess Important dates and deadlines related to conference presentations can be found on this page. Keep in mind that proposals need not be works of art. A quick summary or abstract of the talk you plan to give is sufficient for consideration. We prefer outlines for tutorials. The proposal is what the conference committees uses to select speakers, so give enough information that the committee can tell what you'll be covering. As the conference approaches, we will request additional information about your proposal as necessary. NOTE: All presenters whose talks are accepted (excluding Lightning Talks) will receive free registration at the conference. For each half-day tutorial, the presenter receives one night's accommodation, a travel allowance, and an honorarium. Registration will open April 1, 2002. If you would like an email notification when registration opens, please use the form at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ See you at the conference! This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message