Re: BSD talks in JRSL, looking for topics

From: Jason Dixon <jason_at_**********.***>
Date: Wed Jul 23 2008 - 12:31:30 EDT

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:23:05PM -0300, Sd??vtaker wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net> wrote:
> > 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. ;)
> >
> what u think about the second part?
> >What about a birdfly over jails, pf and ufs2, just the big picture,
> > its comparizon against other tecnologies, i got less than an hour.
> I just scare to expose about ZFS 5 minutes before opensolaris people
> talking about the same :-/

Sounds fine, good luck with the talks!

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