Dear list members,
The registration for the anual Swiss Unix Conference has been opened. The online registration form can be found at:
https://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/register.html
If you register before August 9 you can benefit from early bird registration discounts and save 40% on all fees and additionaly get the chance to win O'Reilly books.
SUCON'04 - 2nd Swiss Unix Conference
September 2-4, 2004
Technopark, Zurich
http://www.sucon.ch/Some BSD highlights:
Poul-Henning Kamp
Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now):
UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so
everybody is running UNIX on their computer, right ?
This presentation takes a partisan looks a why UNIX
never became a big success in the eighties, failed to
win the market in the nineties, and still struggles in
the market in the new millenium. Poul-Henning will take
a critical look at the mistakes of the past and the
mistakes of the present and try to make it really clear
what needs to happen for UNIX to become a real success. Hubert Feyrer
NetBSD Status Report Fall 2004
As a follower of the Berkeley 4.4BSD Unix operating
system, NetBSD is the oldest Open Source operating
system project under development today. With it's focus
on portability to a wide range of hardware, NetBSD is
equally good for running on desktop PCs, various server
hardware as well as a wide range of contemporaty
handheld and embedded devices. A lot has happened since
the project started, and with finally reaching the
NetBSD 2.0 release after more than 10 years, this talk
will give an overview of the past events from both
technical and project administrative point of view,
introduce where the NetBSD project stands today and what
some of the plans for the future are. Henning Brauer
A Secure BGP Implementation
The Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, is the standard
protocol to exchange routing information. So-called full
mesh BGP peers build up a table describing the entire
Internet. When something goes wrong with bgp, such as
loosing tcp session(s) or the bgp daemon dieing, the
affected router is loosing all its routes and the
affected site may disappear from the internet until the
problem is fixed. If an attacker is able to insert
routes remotely the implications are even worse. The
basics of the BGP protocol are going to be looked at
from a security point of view, especially taking care
about the tcp session, and what has been done in OpenBSD
and the included bgpd to secure BGP.And many other *BSD related talks. See http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/programme_f.html
Hope to see you at the conference!
Best Regards Thomas Vogt
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