[nycbug-talk] brief USENIX report

[G.Rosamond]

On Jul 1, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Trish Lynch wrote:

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> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, G.Rosamond wrote:
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>> Well, Jesse and I have been in Boston at USENIX since early Monday
>> afternoon.
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>> Jesse is heading back to NYC tonight, and I'll be here until Friday.
>>
>> We have only some a little time in the meetings.  Last nights meeting
>> by Kirk McKusick and Pete Salus about the history of UNIX was the only
>> full meeting I have personally attended so far. . .and it was
>> brilliant.  Lots of stuff on the earlier notions of 'open source'
>> development with programs such as vi, the legal BSD battles, etc.
>>
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> Kirk's history meetings are always great, see my USENIX report in 
> Daemon
> News like years ago (1999 I think, in Monterey)
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complete fabrication Trish. . .oh, you mean 
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199909/usenix-kirk.html?

>> We have gotten to know so so many people.  Great conversations with
>> Michael Lucas, Eric Allman, Scott Long of FBSD, Bosco of FBSD, Andrew
>> who lives in Queens and is a NetBSD developer. . .so many very cool
>> people.
>>
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> USENIX is great for that :) I miss everyone actually.
>
>> Since we were in the publisher's area with BSDMall/DN, we were with
>> Addison Wesley, ORA and No Starch.  We had many extended discussions
>> with all of the publishers.
>>
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> Bill Pollack from No Starce is a trip, eh?

He was supposed to be at our Apple meeting with Grant from ORA. . .

We spent lots of time talking to him. . .he's from Queens originally. . 
.

He's remarkably democratic for a book publisher. . . <g>

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>> We hopefully can have Kirk McKusick do a special meeting in October,
>> when he's in the city. . .it will coincide with the updating of The
>> Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. . .being
>> released by Addison Wesley in the next couple of months.
>>
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> That would be great, it would be nice seeing Kirk again... its been 
> since
> 2k1.
>
>> Everyone who has an iBook or a PowerBook now has a Daemon sticker. .
>> .of course.
>>
>> Jesse spent some quality time with Daryl, a NetBSD developer, trying 
>> to
>> dual boot his OSX PowerBook with NetBSD, and is just caught up with
>> keyboard issues.
>>
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> I wonder if they can help me boot NetBSD on my air purifier...
>

Jesse should be putting together some documentation on the NetBSD dual 
boot on his PowerBook.

Right Jesse?

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>> Anyway, sorry that more of you couldn't make it, but we'll be sure to
>> fill you in. . .We have a box of the USENIX magazines for distribution
>> at the next meeting. . .
>>
>> g
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> You mean ;login?
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> Yay!

Big fat box. . .I'm seeing what I can snag of the conference 
documentation.

g