Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group
Come and join Josef Grosch (FreeBSD), Nicole Harrington (FreeBSD) and Rick Moen (Linux) for a guided tour exploring the different pros and cons of FreeBSD and Linux. Come and defend your favorite OS. Tell us what you Love / Hate about FreeBSD or Linux. Our goal is to develop a large table of comparative data that will then be placed on the BAFUG website. Why? We want a large and accurate table of comparison between FreeBSD and Linux to help those trying to decided on which OS is right for them and to help defend their choices to their employers. Also it can be used as a nice yard stick to show were FreeBSD might need improvement. We also want to provide weights of importance to various users. I.E. X86 performance means nothing to those running servers.
Also, we would like to include the names of those attending this meeting with the table to help improve its voracity.
This months meeting will be held at Whistle Communications. Whistle is located at 110 Marsh Dr. in Foster City. There is plenty parking in their lot.
The meeting starts at 7:30ish with pizza showing up around 7:15ish. We generally get kicked out around 11:00 pm.
Exit at the downtown San Mateo station, and walk several miles east on Third Avenue to the Marsh Drive intersection. Alternatively, exit at the Bay Meadows station and take the SanTrans Route 251 Hillsdale - Foster City bus to the Bridgepoint Shopping Center stop and walk 1/4 mile north on Mariner's Island Blvd. to Third Avenue, turning right one block to Marsh Drive.
The Route 251 Hillsdale - Foster City bus line's Bridgepoint Shopping Center terminus is a few blocks from Whistle Communications.
Take 101 North toward San Francisco, From US-101 northbound, take CA-92 eastbound a mile to the Foster City Blvd., turning left (east) at the end of the ramp onto Metro Center Blvd. Go about a block and turn left (north-east) onto Foster City Blvd. Go about five blocks to the street's end, turning left (north) onto Third Avenue. Go about a block to turn left (west) at the first traffic light, onto Marsh Drive. Immediately turn left into the Whistle parking lot.
>From CA-92/Hayward, cross the San Mateo Bridge and take the first exit Foster City Blvd., curving right at the end of the ramp to a left (nort-east) turn onto Foster City Blvd. Then process as described above for US-101 northbound.
>From US-101 southbound, exit eastbound onto Third Avenue proceeding several miles, past the Mariner's Island Blvd. intersection, to turn right (west) onto Marsh Drive. Immediately turn left into the Whistle parking lot.
More info can be found at the following URLs
Please contact either Nicole Harrington, or Josef Grosch on or before May 11th. so we can have a basic idea of how much pizza, soda, and coffee we will need.
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