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I face a unique challenge running the biggest department at iXsystems. With employees fluctuating depending on the time of the year, my biggest challenge as Production Manager is making sure my employees have the policies, procedures, tools, and leadership to be...
Moving from Linux to FreeBSD involves quite a number of changes; some gains and some losses. As a developer, for most of the programming languages, especially the high level ones, there are no meaningful disturbing changes. But for languages like C (and its sibling...
Supercomputing was a blast! I got in late on Monday, just in time for the official opening of the show. They made a real party out of it - there were minibars spread all around the show floor, and a marching band going up and down the aisles. At the iXsystems booth,...
Dru, Marty, and David attended LISA 2014 in Seattle, WA last week. Although Dru is a veteran of the conference, it was the first time at the show for both Marty and David. “Having never attended a LISA conference, I was uncertain of what to expect. Of course, there...
This year’s MeetBSD California Conference was a tremendous success. Nearly 200 people attended the conference, which was held at Western Digital’s San Jose office, over the course of both days. The conference was held in the “unConference” format, and featured...
All Things Open was held in Raleigh on October 22 and 23. This was the largest ATO to date, with over 1000 attendees. There was also a good mix of female attendees, due in part to the Women in Open Source panel on the second day and the number of female speakers....
Aside from early in the morning and late in the afternoon, there were always lots of people in the Expo hall visiting the FreeBSD booth. I noticed we had a very low percentage of "drive-by" visitors—most people stayed and talked about some aspect of FreeBSD. I would...
EuroBSDCon was a blast this year. The week started off with attending the FreeBSD developers summit, where we began by reviewing the current worklist for 11.0. A large number of the items were already finished or committed to HEAD, and 11.0 looks to be shaping up as a...
Fossetcon was held on September 11-13 in Orlando, FL. iXsystems sponsored a FreeBSD booth in the expo area of this event. It was conveniently located next to the FreeBSD Brasil booth as three members of one of the largest FreeBSD user groups in the world came from...
FreeBSD is a modern and capable operating system (OS) which can be both robust and easily manageable if used in an office or a workgroup server environment. It supports the whole range of cutting edge Open-Source technologies, which makes using it a completely...
