Welcome to VicFUG 2002

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Welcome to VicFUG 2002
State of the Union
By Joel Sutton
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Overview

• Welcome to VicFUG 2002
• Official Sponsors
• Official Organisers
• VicFUG past, present and future
• BSD this year
• Making our own contributions
• Whats happening today (schedule)

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Official Sponsors

• Clarinet Internet Services
• Genesis Networks
• Obsidian Consulting
• Paradigm 4
• Gavin VicFUG Postmaster Cameron

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Official Organisers

• Marc De Bruyn
• Richard Grace
• Paul Seymour
• John Simmons

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VicFUG Past

• Originally formed 1999
• First dinner in September 1999

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First Dinner
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VicFUG Past

• Originally formed 1999
• First dinner in September 1999
• Dinners at Papa Ginos

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Papa Ginos
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VicFUG Past

• Originally formed 1999
• First dinner in September 1999
• Dinners at Papa Ginos
• Bi-monthly user group meetings

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Bi-monthly Meetings
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VicFUG Present

• Activities scaled back
• Monthly dinners at Tran Trans
• General mailing list
• Annual user group meeting

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VicFUG Future

• Monthly dinner
• Annual user group meeting
• Support community via general mailing list
• Possible change to VicBSD?
• What kind of group are we?
• What do you want to do?

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BSD this year

• Operating System growth
• FreeBSD 4.6 5.0 Developer Preview
• NetBSD 1.6 is brewing (1.5.3 not far away)
• OpenBSD 3.1
• Security bug fixes too numerous to mention
• BSD supports more architectures/platforms than
  ever
• 5 for FreeBSD
• 52 for NetBSD
• 10 for OpenBSD

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BSD this year

• Wind River out of the picture
• FreeBSD transferred to FreeBSD Mall
• Bob Bruce (Walnut Creek CDROM)
• Jordan Hubbard resigned from core
• FreeBSD core elections
• Apple supporting BSD
• MacOS X
• Darwin
• Daemon News in print

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Making our own contributions

• What can I do to help?
• Write code for your favourite BSD
• Port your application to your favourite BSD
• Write articles for Daemon News
• Buy your CDs from the official suppliers
• Introduce BSD to your friends
• Help people drive their BSD boxes
• Donate hardware
• Set up a mirror site

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Schedule - Morning

• 1015 Presentation Benno Rice
• Structure of the FreeBSD Kernel
• 1045 Morning Tea
• 1115 Presentation Richard Grace
• Audio streaming with FreeBSD
• 1130 Presentation Will Rose
• Building an Internet Gateway
• 1145 Presentation Dave Seddon
• Using VMWare

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Schedule - Afternoon

• 1200 BBQ Lunch
• 1400 General purpose time
• - QA
• - LAN activities
• - CD burning
• - BSD installations
• - Hardware demonstrations
• - Socialising
• - Drinks
• - General Open Source related mischief
• 1700 Finish

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General Notes

• Please respect other peoples property
• Drinks will be available from kitchen
• Please keep drinks away from equipment
• Toilets in the foyer
• No smoking inside please
• Any questions? Ask an official organiser.

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Structure of the FreeBSD Kernel
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By Benno Rice
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Morning Tea
VicFUG 2002
Please be back at 1045am
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Audio streaming with FreeBSD
VicFUG 2002
By Richard Grace
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Building an Internet Gateway
VicFUG 2002
By Will Rose
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Using VMWare
VicFUG 2002
By Dave Seddon
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BBQ Lunch
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Please be back at 200pm
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General Purpose Time
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Pack up time
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Thank you for coming