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 very solid release.
Items such as 10/40/100GigE NICs were discussed, along with sessions on ports and packages, embedded and others. One of the most exciting bits of news I heard was that Intel Haswell support was incoming and expected to slip in right before 10.1 releases. Also, FreeBSD will be getting an “official” Oracle-supported Java release soon, which will greatly improve the use case of running Java on FreeBSD. Work is also ongoing to replace the “freebsd-update” system with pkg handling world / kernel updates. The conference itself was well attended, with around 225 people present. Jordan kicked things off with a very well attended keynote talk.
I got to follow up with the next talk about ZFS backups and bare-metal restores. The other talks seemed to be very well attended. I only got to attend a few personally, since Allan Jude and I spent a good part of the conference interviewing folks for BSDNow, and working on projects in the hallway track. Overall it was a great conference and now we’re gearing up for MeetBSD California 2014! BSDNow will be live covering the event as it unfolds.
Kris Moore
Director of PC-BSD Development
