BUGS [BSD Users Group, Sydney]
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Welcome to the BSD Users Group, Sydney.
Member locations
Vale Sue Blake aka unixhag
Vale Jürgen Lock, aka nox. BSD Über geek.
Photographs from past meetings
Other events
Talk to us on IRC
Participate in the BUGS mailing list
People
More information about BUGS
Hints & Tips
Come to the next meeting
Welcome to the BSD Users Group, Sydney.
BUGS is a group of users of BSD based operating systems, founded in Sydney, Australia on 16 May, 1999. We communicate via
IRC
, and occasionally on our
mailing list
. We meet sometimes.
Activities include support, advocacy, and sharing of resources and information, but a major objective is to enjoy each other's company and have a good time without actually wasting time.
We don't care what stage people are at, and our group includes people who have not started using BSD yet as well as experts. Current members run FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/
OS
and Mac
OS
X Server, on many different types of hardware. We are a friendly informal group, where each member has equal responsibility for making our activities a success. Decisions are made by consensus, rather than having a single decision making leader. For that reason, active participation in the
IRC channel
and/or
mailing list
is necessary to benefit from the group. Firefox users can use
IRC channel
(#bugs on irc.oz.org) to connect, make sure you select Mibbit when prompted.
Member locations
We maintain the locations of the less paranoid members on a
Google Map
. Ask on
IRC
if you want to be on the map.
Vale Sue Blake aka unixhag
One of the founding members of BUGS, Sue Blake, passed away early on 2010-Dec-17 from cancer. She will be dearly missed.
Vale Jürgen Lock, aka nox. BSD Über geek.
Jürgen passed on the 8th of August 2015. A friendly, helpful guy. He always took the time to help the less enlightened among us. A generous contributor to the FreeBSD project, and a keen mind.
Active on our
IRC
channel since October 2008.
nox: moin
The classic nox greeting. You will be missed our friend. c u
Also mentioned in the 11.0-RELEASE under “Dedication”
Photographs from past meetings
Images
of people who are older now.
Other events
None at present
Talk to us on IRC
Come and chat on
#bugs on irc.austnet.org
. You may also find people on one of our contingency servers:
#bugs on irc.ozorg.net
#bugs on irc.oftc.net
#bugs on irc.libera.chat
why so many?
- there may even be a bridge running between the networks). There are usually about 20 members on at any time, and the channel is very active.
IRC
newbies click
here
for help.
From time to time we have needed a key on the channel to help prevent bots joining. If the key is enabled (see below), you will need to use it to join the channel:
/join #bugs ilikepie
If you need any help with this please email the list or message one of the channel regulars when you are connected to the server, and be patient,
IRC
isn't quite like instant messaging, the message is delivered, but
IRC
isn't necessarily instant response. Sometimes people are watching, sometimes no one is. The key is currently required.
If you're interested, why not read some
past topics
or some
future topics
Participate in the BUGS mailing list
The mailing list is currently disabled since it hasn't had any non-spam traffic for more than 2 years and the mailing list software needs updating. Mailing list archives back to late October 2007 remain available at:
People
Feel free to add yourself to the BUGS
members page
or
world map
More information about BUGS
How it all started
The first meeting
More past meetings
Our members
- please add yourself!
BUGS Infrastructure
IRC channel topics
Hints & Tips
Australian FreeBSD mirrors
Expanding ZFS RAID pools
Replacing faulty disks in ZFS RAID pools
FreeBSD 4BSD vs ULE Scheduler
Internet Operationing Instructions
IRC for beginners
Running Diskless over WiFi with lagg
Come to the next meeting
In the past some of the BUGS members organised a
meeting
somewhere. Usually this is just a social gathering, but occasionally we may want to share technical know-how with other members. Here is a
list of topics
that could be discussed or presented at a future meeting. Meetings will most likely be organised on
IRC
though also there may be notifications on the mailing list.
Date
TBD
Location
TBD
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