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07/19/2000,
8:45am
to 10:15am
in Serra I & II
Presented by Andy Hertzfeld
The personal computer revolution was initially driven by enthusiasts, propelled by their idealism and passion . My talk will compare the early days of the personal computer industry with the current situation of the open source movement. It will focus on my experiences at Apple, describing some of the key people at Apple and how their personalities worked their way into their products, especially dwelling on the development of the Macintosh computer. The talk will discuss the structural problems that ensnared the personal computer industry in the 1980s and articulate how the open source movement can help to resolve them. Finally, it will look at the challenges that lie ahead for the open source movement, emphasizing the crucial issue of usability, discussing what the community can do to make open source software easier to use for mainstream users.
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07/20/2000,
8:45am
to 10:15am
in Serra I & II
Presented by Tim O'Reilly
Presented by Gregory Benford
In a unique and riveting Keynote, well known 'hard' science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford asks the question "Where will cheap chips and servile software take us in a few decades? Building on his experience in constructing devices designed to communicate meaningfully across hundreds of decades (he was part of the team that developed markers for U.S. nuclear waste sites that must last 10,000 years) with his knowledge of technology, Benford looks at the future in terms of fundamental cultural shifts and what they mean. Our future digitized culture will not necessarily share our assumptions or visions. That future will enjoy an ever-attentive urban landscape, one tuned at every turn by ingratiating machines. Products will fare well if they can anticipate how well that culture will accept fine shadings of machine obedience and intrusion into personal lives. How comfy will we get before we object? Much depends upon how we see ourselves.
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07/20/2000,
10:45am
to 12:15pm
in Redwood I - II
Presented by Jordan Hubbard, Charles Hannum, Kevin Rose, Wilfredo Sanchez
Where is BSD headed? Will a common FreeBSD/BSDi release signal a new era for BSD? Is there something the BSD community can (or should) do about Linux-mania? What new technical developments will keep BSD moving forward? Join this panel of BSD leaders to hear the facts about the bright future for BSD.
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07/20/2000,
1:30pm
to 3:00pm
in Redwood I - II
Presented by Simon Shapiro
A recently released Intelligent I/O (I2O) subsystem for BSD type operating systems allows for very large I/O subsystems (up to 1600 drives per system), very fast I/O subsystems (in excess of 150 MB/Sec random I/O per controller, making it the FASTEST RAID subsystem for the PCI bus, regardless of O/S.). The I2o OSM (Operating System Module) is a highly scalable, runtime tunable I/O subsystem that allows easy and efficient tuning for various I/O loads. A study of this I/O subsystem demonstrates how a PC class server, with off the shelf hardware can be optimally adopted to mission critical I/O subsystems using open source software. Excellent I/O response with load averages in excess of 200.00 can be easily obtained.
Presented by Patrick Powell
Would you like to be able to run 2000 print queues & 800 printers on a 166 Mhz Pentium with FreeBSD? You can with LPRng! The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. While providing the same interface and meeting RFC1179 requirements, the implementation is completely new and provides support for the following features: lightweight (no databases needed) lpr, lpc, and lprm programs; dynamic redirection of print queues; automatic job holding; highly verbose diagnostics; multiple printers serving a single queue; client programs do not need to run SUID root; greatly enhanced security checks; and a greatly improved permission and authorization mechanism. This session will introduce you to the capabilities of LPRng.
Presented by Theo de Raadt
As security issues start gaining greater importance, the default configuration of a user's operating system is becoming more critical. By describing the OpenBSD group's work in this area, Theo will attempt to explain how careful choice of default behaviour leads to systems which are more secure for the user right after install and also educates the user about system behaviour so that more secure decisions are made during re-configuration.
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07/20/2000,
3:30pm
to 5:00pm
in Redwood I - II
Presented by Michael Staiger, Mark M. Lutgen
FreeBSD has been in use in the U S WEST.net core infrastructure for years. The stability, reliability, performance, and security of the Operating System are major factors for its use. There are additional regulatory requirements that make our ISP environment unique and FreeBSD fits these needs. This presentation will cover the regulatory and technical environment at U S WEST Internet Services. We will discuss how we got to where we are now, where we're going to go tomorrow (sorry :-), and how FreeBSD fits into our big picture.
Presented by Simon Shapiro
Learn all about DSS, a scalable, high performance distributed data storage server and third generation project within the Earthlink Enterprise Management group. Unlike most other database engines, this open source server offers: completely policy driven distribution--replicated, not replicated; distributed data dictionary--each dictionary node totally autonomous; completely transparent distribution; dynamically reconfigurable distribution; transactional I/O model--transactions can be managed and mixed with nontransactional requests; transactions that span hosts/servers transparently; re-entrant server for multiple clients concurrence, multiple outstanding transactions per client, and multiple requests per transaction; simple C interface.
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