OLF 2015 Recap

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October 6, 2015

I just got back from Ohio Linuxfest 2015 and am pleased to report that it was a great conference for FreeBSD outreach!
While the attendance was a bit lower than in previous years, we still had a lot of great conversations with Linux users who were interested in trying out FreeBSD. The number of people who had heard of FreeBSD was quite a bit higher this year, and many of the people who visited the booth loved using FreeNAS on their home file servers.

It surprised me how many FreeNAS users did not realize that FreeBSD was the operating system used “under the hood” of FreeNAS. These same users were usually unaware of the PC-BSD project and many of the technologies available on FreeBSD systems as well.

We were able to correct a lot of misunderstandings about FreeBSD & ZFS. Marty and I also informed attendees about the other technologies available on FreeBSD including boot environments on PC-BSD and plugin/jail support on all FreeBSD systems and its derivatives.

Overall I think this was a good conference for FreeBSD and I would recommend coming back to OLF next year!
Ken Moore
PC-BSD Software Developer

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