[Ukfreebsd] Notes from yesterdays meeting

[Sevan / Venture37]

Some of the topics discussed
working in/for academia
enforcing policies / working around bullies with badges (eg network
team or security office)
difference in handling fundamental changes to the system between
freebsd & openbsd (e.g ABI)
oracle
James Gosling at javaone http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/javaone_was_fun
OpenIndiana
SPARC hardware
StackGhost
hppa/alpha/sparc kit
resorting to ssh v1 because the sm40 cant deal with ssh v2 fast enough
ssh-keygen takes ages on anchient hardware
NFS v2>v4
amd(8)
m4
Oracle DBAs who use m4
Owain loves nVidia ;)
why sleep/wake is broken on a MacBook Pro with an nvidia graphics card
what is WALL
clang/LLVM
Brooks Davis on clang/LLVM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-AQJqUzRI
GPL
Stallman
"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"
OpenSSL
pcc
http://twitter.com/EdSchouten/status/18045747215
K&R and The C answer book
Donations to OpenBSD vs CD Sales
-STABLE Ports on OpenBSD
maintaining longterm backwards compatibility e.g SunOS
Security features built into the windows & visual studio by Microsoft
hacking VFS
PC-BSD
weird dependencies e.g samba is required for some gnome components
light weight window managers
dwm dwm.suckless.org
The ball ache of building the various opensolaris consolidations
emacs tramp mode
no documentation for graphics card / frame bruffers used in ultrasparc
systems apart from a few XVR models used in the blade 2000/2500


Sevan