Re: BSD talks in JRSL, looking for topics

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:09:23PM -0300, Sd??vtaker wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net> wrote:
> > (Removing FreeBSD advocacy from Cc)
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:13:23AM -0300, Sd??vtaker wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> Im from bug.dc.uba.ar. next month we will have JRSL (free software
> >> regional event) here in Argentina, we can get a space to talk about
> >> BSD, the event will have 2 publics, newbies and experienced users.
> >> I wondering what to talk about. I guess we can talk about PF for
> >> experienced users, but what would be a nice topic for newbie public?
> >> Licenses comparizon?
> >
> > Licenses might be interesting. I would suggest a technical top that's
> > easily approachable to new users. Perhaps ZFS (FreeBSD). Although that
> > might sound like an odd suggestion, I think that ZFS actually makes
> > enterprise storage design more newbie-friendly. Or maybe package
> > management. Comparison of the major BSDs?
> >
> if i got talk about FSs I will rather go for HammerFS, ZFS is nice,
> but its a port, hammerFs was 100% designed and implemented for BSD frm
> time 0.
> Actually already proposed talk about HammerFS in my bug list.
> What about a birdfly over jails, pf and ufs2, just the big picture,
> its comparizon against other tecnologies, i got less than an hour.
> Can it be a hook for new users?

HAMMER is a nice project, but its focus is on supporting clustered
nodes. Yes, ZFS is a port to FreeBSD, but it is much more likely to be
of interest to the beginner user. Just my $0.02, do with them what you
wish. ;)

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net/
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