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This year's EuroBSDcon took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was an amazing mix of sessions, reunions and announcements. I had missed the last two EuroBSDcons and was delighted to see the people I love in a city I love. Many of us hit the ground running by working on...
EMC is known in the industry as one of the longstanding archetypes of commercial software. They are also known for restricting access to knowledge and information around their storage products. They certainly aren’t what’s considered “open” by anyone’s definition....
Last week the most well-attended BSDCan conference in history took place in Ottawa, Canada, with nearly 300 BSD programmers and hackers in attendance. Several iXsystems staff were present at the conference and shared their thoughts with us on how the conference went....
What an incredibly busy weekend! The staff and volunteers of Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) were awesome! They were very accommodating, and I haven't felt so welcome at a conference in a long time. The conference was well organized, just as we expected. Jeremy, the...
This year’s AsiaBSDcon started with the DevSummit on Thursday. We discussed making more utilities output XML/JSON with libxo, the work Warner was doing on making the kernel more modular with auto PNP loading of modules, and some security related bits with the work...
Slashdot posted an interesting story earlier this week. Luke Wolf, a key KDE developer, made the bold prediction that FreeBSD will surpass Linux in the next five years. On his blog, Wolf points out that Linux distros haven’t changed much over the past ten years and...
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...
Over the past few weeks, the Open Source Software community has been dealing with the fallout from the discovery of a significant vulnerability in the GNU Bash shell used by default in many Linux-based operating systems. iXsystems products are based on FreeBSD, not...
[fusion_text]This past weekend, Ken and Dru went to Charlotte, NC for this year’s Southeast Linuxfest. An estimated 500 people were in attendance throughout the conference, which took place from Friday morning until Sunday afternoon. Ken reported that the booth was...
How New ZFS Utilities are Changing FreeBSD & PC-BSD Since the inclusion of ZFS into the FreeBSD base system, it has revolutionized how enterprise users have managed their data. However due to higher memory requirements and the difficulty of the initial setup, it...
