The Greater Utah BSD User Group (http://www.gubug.org/) is pleased to announce the first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by ArosNet, Utah's premier Internet Service Provider (http://www.aros.net/).
We are fortunate to have Vérité, Inc. (http://verite.com/) provide the location and crucial bandwidth for the event! -- Date: Sat, Sept 24, 2005 -- Time: 2:00pm til 10:00pm (or until we pass out!) -- Place: Vérité, Inc. 608 West 9320 South Sandy, UT -- Cost: $0, nada! Spread the word! Invite your grandmother! -- Free blinky horns for the first 50 people! You know you want 'em! -- 4:30pm drawing for free stuff, including a free year of service from ArosNet! -- Free food & drink will be provided as well! Bring your boxen and we will provide installation and technical assistance for the best platforms in the world! As our special guest, joining us all the way from Ottawa, Canada, is Dan Langille (http://www.langille.org/). Dan is a long-standing member of the BSD community and founder of FreeBSD Diary, FreshPorts, BSDCan and is also a founding member of the BSD Certification Group. -- BSDCan : http://www.bsdcan.org/ -- FreeBSD Diary : http://www.freebsddiary.org/ -- FreshPorts : http://www.freshports.org/ -- The BSD Certification Group : http://www.bsdcertification.org/ Dan had graciously offered to give a talk about Bacula: THE backup solution (http://www.bacula.org/). The session is scheduled for 3:30pm to 4:00pm (with time for questions immeadiately after). We will have ISO images of the 4 most popular BSD flavors: -- FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ -- OpenBSD : http://www.openbsd.org/ -- NetBSD : http://www.netbsd.org/ -- DragonflyBSD : http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ OpenBSD fans, be sure to bring your Humppa! We will have two at the event already! ;-) We will also have some images for those interested in running BSD as a desktop: -- DesktopBSD : http://desktopbsd.sourceforge.net/ -- PC-BSD : http://www.pcbsd.org/ Live CD's will also be available for those interested: -- FreeSBIE : http://www.freesbie.org/ -- LiveBSD : http://www.livebsd.org/ Please let us know ahead of time if you are interested in other platforms and we will try to have a technical resource available. We need to have an idea of how many attendees we will have and architectures you are interested in, so sign up early! Please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a general idea of what you would like to install and the type of hardware you are bringing. Note that the BSDs are platform-independent, and ports for some very exotic hardware *is* available! For more information, please visit our Web site: http://www.gubug.org/ Hope to see you there! Don Boling [EMAIL PROTECTED] .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
