The slides from the January 2013 Meeting about FreeBSD Jails (and OpenBSD ChrootDirectory) are available.

What's missing from the slides is the discussions we had surrounding FreeBSD internals, comparisons to Solaris Zones & KVM, Jail security, and how it's different from just using ChrootDirectory in OpenSSH.

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This month, we are meeting at Message Systems in Columbia on Thursday, January 31 at 6:30 PM.

Devon and I will be pulling a tag team on FreeBSD Jails. Devon will cover the engineering / development aspects while I'll hit the implementation highlights from a systems admin point of view …

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The slides for the two presentations from Nov/Dec 2012 have finally been posted:

• SysAdmin Tricks
• Troubleshooting Alpha Boot

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For our November/December combination meeting (since so many people have plans near the end of both months), we're meeting Thursday, December 13 (6:30 PM ET) at Message Systems Office.

For this meeting, we will be discussing some SysAdmin Tricks (hopefully related to BSD). Mike Erdely will be demonstrating …

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In September, Jason Crawford gave a talk about Hadoop slides.

This was our first meeting in Message Systems new office.

(Sorry for the late post and late posting of the slides).

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