Dramashack!

Wow, it’s been awhile… Good thing I have my twitter account posting weekly digests here!  I may change it to monthly digests. I don’t use twitter to post incremental updates about the texture, color, and smell of my poo.  Maybe I should.

I hear we’re a few days away from the next release of PC-BSD, Hubble Edition.  Hubble will be the release name for everything in the 8.x series instead of giving every dot release it’s own name, theme, and brand.  For those FreeBSD users out there wondering wtf PC-BSD was doing with dual localbases will be happy to hear that we ditched this method for a ports jail (or what we call the Ports Console).  New users can run into problems when installing ports on their base system, the Ports Console allows a user to install and run X apps (with sound too!) from the port jail. Yesterday, I used the port console to install the Mozilla Weave port, then copied the generated XPI to my home directory and installed it using the PBI version of FireFox.  In the future, I would love to see PBI’s of all FireFox plugins found in ports.

I am attending SCaLE this weekend, which despite popular belief, does not stand for Southern California alternative (to) Linux Expo.  I’ll be hanging out at the FreeBSD Booth with several friends and co-workers, so come by for a demo!  Also, freebsdgirl will be answering questions about sysinstall in regards to what it does better than the new PC-BSD installer.  Why? Because PC-BSD’s installer can be used for automated vanilla freebsd installs, too.  In fact, I don’t know why anyone would use sysinstall (the 90′s called, they want their installer back!) OUCH!  But in all seriousness, use our installer. Seriously.

Now time for some photo-fillerz!

Don't mistake this as a "friendly" game of ping pong, they are out for BLOOD.

One of our production lines featuring JoJo hard at work!

This is where the real problem solving occurs.

Custom BSD Artwork found in the iXsystems conference room. Left to right: FreeBSD Bobble, Beastie, and the PC-BSD Flame.

That’s all for now, I may post another blog after the tradeshow, or not! lol jk jk…

Part of my job at iXsystems is attending tradeshows to spread the word of FreeBSD, specifically PC-BSD. The booth was full of SCaLE-ians of all skill sets and styles. We had a lot of fun testing out the latest PC-BSD 7.1-Alpha-2, which ended up fixing a mode issue with our Westinghouse LCD.

The BoF was a success, we hung out with some linux guys and suggested they upgrade and install PC-BSD, to which they promptly obliged.

I am sitting in a group of 10 or so people, which is always a great time to focus on blogging from my piece of shit G1 phone that may crash and force before I am able to post. Don’t worry – I’ll include a couple of pics to prove I was paying attention.

Tradeshows like SCaLE are always a lot of fun because of the wide variety of people and distros in use. We give the linux dewdz a hard time – but that should be expected.

Okay, time to bring my attention away from the phone and back to my peepz.

We arrived at the Westin LAX, woooo! That was a pretty easy trip, but hey, I didn’t have to drive. Thanks Matt, you are a trooper! Right now were relaxing in the bedroom and I am finally getting around to installing PC-BSD on Matt’s Lenovo. We want to demo Alpha 2 of PC-BSD 7.1 Galileo at tonight’s BoF – but we may end up demoing 7.0.2 and 7.1-Alpha-1 instead.

Thankfully, the Invincibook (from iXsystems) lives up to its name after surviving the fall from Matt’s luggage to the pavement in the Westin Hotel parking garage. No worries though! PC-BSD booted right up, yay!

Update: I would have installed the latest PC-BSD release on the Lenovo but Matt left the external DVD drive at home. Not a big deal, we have an Alpha on the Invincibook and we’ll have Alpha 2 by tomorrow afternoon.

Also, the PC-BSD USB Keychain installer I have failed me. I’m not sure if I wiped it or if I’m too hard on my keychain. FFS!

We’ve been in the room for about an hour now, I’m ready to eat and be merry.

We finally arrived. First contact with a SCaLE-ian occured shortly thereafter. While communication was initiated the results are still unclear and will require further analysis!