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EuroBSDCon 2009 is coming!
The eighth European BSD conference is a great opportunity to present new ideas to the community and to meet some of the developers behind the different BSDs. — http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/
EuroBSDCon is being held at Cambridge University from September 18-20th. I can’t wait, it will be my first time to the UK. Kris Moore will be speaking on “Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a mainstream reality”, which I’ve experienced firsthand while using PC-BSD. I’m also interested in hearing about “Long Distance Wireless” at Sam Leffler’s talk and Rui Paulo’s talk on “Wireless Mesh Networks”. For a complete and more detailed list of talks, go to http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/talks/.
I will be giving PC-BSD demos on the iXsystems Invincibook, an incredibly resilient and James-friendly laptop. I’m not sure the laptop can handle the Steam Game demos I normally do, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve to keep things interesting.
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James T. Nixon III
Lol, I know right!?
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Matt Olander
Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT
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alan
One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
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Shaul
I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.