A few years ago, we decided to migrate many of our servers (and many of those of our clients) from Linux to the BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - depending on the specific services. In this presentation, I will discuss the reasons behind our decision, the technical and organizational challenges we faced, the tangible benefits we have experienced, and why we believe this migration is...
Are you new to the BSD community, or just looking to meet some new people? At this BoF we'll just try to introduce everyone and talk (briefly!) about what they are interested in.
Kind of a human search engine for topics of shared interest.
Come find other people interested in the same thing as you, or new things to be interested in!
This talk goes over the development of a distributed filesystem tailored for OpenBSD. While OpenBSD excels in many areas, its native filesystem support has room for improvement. This talk goes into using the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) on OpenBSD to provide for a distributed and highly available filesystem.
This talk also includes an introduction to the Raft Consensus Algorithm, which...
Mapping abstract symbol names in source code to concrete addresses at runtime requires cooperation between the compiler, static linker, and runtime loader. This talk will talk about some of the practices and data structures used for this task including ELF relocations, Global Offset Tables and Procedure Linkage Tables. Depending on time, it may also cover some more advanced topics such as...
This talk tells the history of the BSD Daemon. It starts with the first renditions in the 1970s of the daemons that help UNIX systems provide services to users. These early daemons were the inspiration for the well-known daemon created by John Lasseter in the early 1980s that became synonymous with BSD as they adorned the covers of the first three editions of `The Design and Implementation of...
The misuse of AI in education for cheating purposes has created challenges in assessing students' authentic contributions in the last couple of years. Another issue we identified is that University labs rarely teach problem-solving skills for a real-world scenario that students have to deal with in their post-academic working life (i.e. fixing production issues). Traditional assignments lacked...
One of NetBSD's goal with network security is to upgrade NPF with lots of useful features and then be used as the primary packet filter. In this talk, As NetBSD's current primary maintainer of NPF, I will reveal the improvements I have added to NetBSD's NPF packet filter. I will also reveal Further improvements in relation to performance and the direction of the project to reaching completion.
A wide ranging conversation about all things network related and the BSDs.
Topics typically include the state of various network stacks, kvetching about the network, switches, routers, and how we are using the BSDs to solve network problems.
Open Source is participatory and BSD Unix is no exception, with its own unique development workflows and events. Bug reporting, code proposing, and event participation are fundamental elements of the BSD Unix community and despite appearances, are open to anyone to participate.
This talk will take a pragmatic tour of effective engagement on these topics with real-world examples and tips...
ISC has been proudly using FreeBSD in production for a long time, including to serve critical internet infrastructure with a global user base (including you!), from the DEC Alpha days up till now, mostly on bare-metal.
In this talk I'll go over some of how we (and I) got here, how we've managed far-away installs and upgrades without remote hands during a global pandemic, and how we...
