freebsd announce - Apr 1999 - FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference

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.


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