[nycbug-talk] Possible topics for future meetings

[Paul Dlug]

I'm not sure how large of a "plant" you're looking for. Our 
organization, American Physical Society, utilizes FreeBSD extensively. 
We manage around 20 BSD servers and another 20 solaris hosts. Except 
for the Oracle database and some legacy applications which rely on 
Solaris we are moving everything remaining on Sun to FreeBSD servers 
(but if Oracle ran on BSD.....). We also support a large Mac OS X 
desktop deployment with management tools, LDAP servers and NFS shares 
from FreeBSD servers.

My colleague Mark Pheffer and I were at the meeting the other night and 
would be happy to speak about the advantages and challenges of running 
a mid-sized FreeBSD server deployment along with some notes about 
migrating from Solaris and the tools/scripts we use for this.

--Paul

On Jan 26, 2004, at 8:31 PM, G. Rosamond wrote:

>
> ditto. . .
>
> there's a number of people in nycbug who are focused on individual
> servers or desktops, and that's great.
>
> but the true strength of bsd is in the 'plant' environment.
>
> think of yahoo, or the backrooms of large investment banking firms: 
> it's
> these places where cvsup, stability, etc, really shine.
>
> marc, did you have someone in mind for this talk?  could we pull 
> someone
> from yahoo!???
>
> i can talk to bsdmall about this. . .
>
> g
>
> ->I'd cheer the 'large plant' topic- and also, can add that I
> ->could 'sing
> ->backup vocals', from the perspective of my small hosting
> ->company, where
> ->we manage lots of computers- (less about hardware, more about jailing
> ->though).
> ->
> ->In a nutshell, we like to be able to sleep, hence, BSD. <g>
> ->
> ->Rocket-
> ->.ike
> ->
> ->On Jan 26, 2004, at 5:01 PM, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> ->
> ->> Another good one would be 'large plant' issues, why bsd is good for
> ->> people who manage lots of computers
> ->>
> ->> marc
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