Lightning Talks
This month we'll be having multiple shorter presentations. Presenters will include Warren Block, Joe Maloney, Damian Szidiropulosz. More details can be found here
News
Michael W. Lucas : Twenty Years in Jail
Esteemed technical writer Michael W. Lucas will be joining us to talk about jails this month. We will also be giving away 4 autographed copies of his book "FreeBSD Mastery Jails". For more detailed information, check out the listing
BSD & BBQ
Come join us for our monthly meetup! This month we will skip the lectures and be serving some BBQ and good company. Come enjoy some good food with some like minded people.
KnoxBUG Roadmap for 2018
KnoxBUG kicked things off in 2018 with our “Happy True Year” TrueOS install fest event. It was a nice informal gathering with drinks,pizza and a great turnout. There was much tinkering and laughing. As most of us do at the beginning of a new year, we also took time to reflect on the past year and make plans for how to make this new year even better.
One of the things we discussed was a change in format. While most of our attendees have been people with a lot of BSD / Unix / FOSS experience, we’ve also had a few people that are completely new to the open source world. Our talks have all been great but have mainly catered towards expert FOSS users. We want to change that approach.
October's talk available on YouTube!
Normally I take notes and provide a summary of our meeting. This time around, we made a video recording and published it to our KnoxBUG YouTube channel! Enjoy!
Recap of September's Talk
KnoxBUG had the pleasure of having PacBSD's Adam Jimerson back. This time he took a deep dive on how PacBSD managed to integrate Arch Linux's package manager on top of an operating system built on top of FreeBSD's kernel and ports.
August 2017 Dzen Presentation Summary
This past August, I had the pleasure of giving my first talk. The topic was Dzen. A great little utility you can find in just about any Unix like operating system that supports X11. This post will illustrate the most basic examples of how Dzen works. For more information please refer to my slides and the scripts that I posted.
July meeting cancelled, see you in August!
I'm sorry to say things have gotten really busy this month and time has slipped away. I couldn't find anybody to book for July's meeting and the talk I was preparing is not ready, so I've decided to cancel this month's meeting. On a positive note, August's meeting has already been listed and I'll be presenting. More details here
Join us for National FreeBSD Day.
Up until now, KnoxBUG has usually skipped June since many of our members would be either at BSDCan or SELF making it hard on people's schedules to come out to one more thing. This year we're going to change that and for good reason. As it turns out, June 19th 1993 was the day the official name for FreeBSD was agreed upon. It is for this reason that the FreeBSD Foundation has officially made June 19th National FreeBSD day. One of the ways the FreeBSD foundation has proposed that users celebrate, is by having an install fest at local meetup groups.
Advanced BASH summary.
We had the pleasure of having Caleb Cooper back with another interesting presentation. This time the focus was on BASH scripting. I think it might have been due to how different shell scripts looked compared to the web languages I'm usually working with, but I've never really even considered doing more complex things with shell scripting up until now. Thanks to Caleb's presentation I think that might change. Here are some of the features I found to be interesting.