BSDi announces BSDcon 2000; Worldwide BSD Community to Convene at Second Annual BSD Conference.Business Editors/High Tech Writers COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000 Berkeley Software Design, Inc (company) Berkeley Software Design, Inc - (BSDI) A company that sells BSD/OS, a commercial version of Berkeley Standard Distribution Unix, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at ., (BSDi) the leader in advanced Internet operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , today announced BSDCon 2000. The second annual BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. Conference and Expo, previously known as FreeBSDCon, will offer a range of speakers, tutorials, demos, workshops, panels, presentations, discussions and exhibits targeted at technical and business professionals in the BSD and open source communities. The conference and exposition offers attendees the opportunity to mingle with other BSD users, as well as BSD developers of BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Tutorials will be held October 14 through 17 and the conference will be held October 18 through 20.
Highlights of the conference include:
-- BSD internals tutorial by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Chairman of
the Board, BSDi and open source pioneer
-- Conference dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
-- Talks by members of the BSD user and commercial community
BSDCon 2000 will be held in Monterey, California For other uses, see Monterey (disambiguation). The City of Monterey is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in central California. As of 2005, the city population was 30,641. at the Hyatt Regency Monterey, which is located minutes from the Monterey Bay Aquarium The Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is located in a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, is one of the largest and most respected aquariums in the world. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million and holds 35,000 plants and animals representing 623 species. , downtown Monterey, Fisherman's Wharf Fisherman's Wharf may refer to:
Pricing Conference (Oct. 18-20) $495; Tutorial 1 (Oct. 14-15) $495; Tutorial 2 (Oct. 16-17) $495. There is a $50 early-bird discount if registering before September 1, 2000. Please see http://www.bsdcon.com for more information. About the FreeBSD Project FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system with a worldwide team, the FreeBSD Project, of more than 5,000 developers funneling their work to 200 "committer" developers. FreeBSD is available free of charge from ftp.freebsd.org and also distributed by BSDi as a shrink-wrapped software product. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution (operating system) Berkeley Software Distribution - (BSD) A family of Unix versions developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley, originally for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern general-purpose computers. license, which means that it can be freely copied, modified and redistributed. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.FreeBSD.org. About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. recognized as a leader in advanced Internet systems. BSDi develops and delivers industrial-strength Internet software, systems and solutions backed by BSDi's world-renowned professional services and support. BSD-based systems are "The Internet Experts' Choice" for building and operating many of the Internet's highest-traffic Web sites and high-volume Internet services, including Yahoo!, Microsoft Hotmail, UUnet and countless others. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, BSDi is located on the Web at www.bsdi.com. Contact BSDi at info@bsdi.com or call 1-719-593-9445 (toll free: 1-800-800-4273). BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDi are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Calendar Editors: What: BSDCon 2000 Dates: Oct. 18-20, 2000 Who: BSD Developers Cost: $495 Where: Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, CA More info: www.bsdcon.com |
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