Archive for the ‘Dru Lavigne – A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru’ Category
BSDA Certification Exam Now Available at IQT Testing Centers
Posted on April 28th, 2011 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
We're pleased to announce that after 7 months of negotiations and the work required to make the exam available in a computer based format, that the BSDA exam is now available at several hundred testing centers throughout the world.
Submit Your Real World pf.conf
Posted on April 28th, 2011 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
As some of you may know, fwbuilder.org is a cross-platform, graphical firewall management utility that supports iptables, ASA, PIX, FWSM, Cisco router access lists, pf, ipfw, ipfilter, and HP ProCurve ACL firewalls. Vadim Kurland and Mike Horn, the lead fwbuilder developers, have begun work on providing complete pf.conf import functionality, the last piece that was missing to provide 100% pf
Upcoming BSD/BSDA Events
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
Looks like the first half of 2011 will be pretty busy. Here are the events that have been confirmed so far:
Been a Busy Beaver
Posted on December 14th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
As you probably surmised from the erratic blog posts, things have been very busy around here. Lots of stuff happening, just no time to blog about it. Here's some of the stuff in the pipe:
ZFSv28 Ready for Testing on FreeBSD
Posted on December 14th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
From yesterday's announcement:
FreeBSD Now Runs on Amazon EC2
Posted on December 14th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
From yesterday's announcement:
OSBR Issue on Humanitarian Open Source
Posted on December 1st, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
Chris McPhee has just announced the December issue of the OSBR. From the announcement:
MeetBSD California2010
Posted on November 6th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
For those of you who couldn't attend, here's some stuff from the MeetBSD California conference:
First PC-BSD 9.0 Alpha Snapshot Available for Testing
Posted on November 4th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
Kris Moore has just announced that the first testing snapshot is available for download (both 32 and 64 bit versions). You can help us make 9.0 an awesome release by trying out the snapshots (there will be many between now and the first beta some time next spring) and providing feedback about any bugs you find. Since these are testing
EuroBSDCon Presentation on pc-sysinstall
Posted on October 12th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
There was a lot of interest about the changes to the pc-sysinstall backend during Kris Moore’s presentation at EuroBSDCon. For those of you used to FreeBSD’s sysinstall, you’ll appreciate some of the features which are available in pc-sysinstall. For those of you new to pc-sysinstall, it is a scriptable command line utility which drives the PC-BSD GUI installer (and can
EuroBSDCon 2010
Posted on October 5th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
I'll be heading to the airport later this afternoon, enroute to Karlsruhe for this year's EuroBSDCon. Here are my activities for the conference:
Installing BigBlueButton on FreeBSD/PC-BSD
Posted on September 25th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
BigBlueButton is an open source VoIP web conferencing system. Once BBB is installed on one system, anyone with a flash-capable web browser can participate in a conference. Here are the instructions for setting up BBB on a FreeBSD or PC-BSD 8.1 system. I haven't tested desk sharing yet and will post a separate entry once I have.
Registration Open for NYCBSDCon
Posted on September 21st, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
The opening of registration has just been announced for NYCBSDCon, to be held in NYC November 12-14. From the announcement:
Looking for Desktop Environment / Window Manager Testers
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
From the PC-BSD blog:
Presentation for Ohio LinuxFest
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
My presentation "PC-BSD: An Easy to Use BSD Desktop" for next week's OLF is available on slideshare. If you're in the Columbus, OH area, drop by the BSD booth to pick up a free DVD of PC-BSD 8.1 and chat about all things BSD. Also, consider supporting BSD Certification by taking the BSDA exam at this event.
BSD Professional Certification Requirements Published
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
If I've been quiet lately it's because I was burning the midnight oil participating in the final technical and grammatical review for the BSD Professional Certification Requirements document. The document was published late Tuesday night and is a thing of beauty. From the announcement:
FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
From this morning's joint press release:
Deployment Adds Enterprise-Grade Redundancy for Improved Reliability, Reduced Latency, High-Speed Backups and Other Efficiencies
BOULDER, CO, August 10, 2010 — The FreeBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project and community, today announced that NYI, a New York City-based, mission-critical data services provider, will be mirroring key West coast
Busy Conference Season
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
The fall conference season is starting to gear up. I'll be presenting at the following conferences as well as proctoring BSDA exams and assisting at the *BSD booth. If you're attending any of these and would like to help out at the booth, let me know.
Accepting Travel Grant Applications for EuroBSDCon 2010
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
The FreeBSD Foundation is now accepting travel grants for EuroBSDCon to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany from October 8-10. From the announcement:
Registration Open for MeetBSD California
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
Registration has opened for MeetBSD California, to be held in Mountain View on November 5-6. From the announcement:
