Michael W Lucas and Allan Jude are busy working on a new OpenZFS book, which means not only documenting everything that’s changed in the last 12 years but discovering everything that they got wrong the first time. The quest for accuracy has taken Lucas deep into mailing list archives, Usenet, VAX installation manuals, the Kremlin’s first Internet connection, the United Nations’ effort to merge the BSD projects, and the ULTRIX and S51K filesystems, and left MWL more convinced than ever that filesystems are nothing but a April Fools’ prank. This hurriedly conceived and hastily assembled talk will update you on new OpenZFS features, but will also try to determine if it’s a good prank–or not.
Michael W Lucas’ name may ring a bell for some in the BSD community. He’s written several shelves of books. But for anyone who has seen him speak in public during Ante COVID days, it was clear they are mere transcriptions of his rambling presentations. For this NYC*BUG meeting, he is unlikely to edit out any of his expected corny jokes we endure during his conference presentations.
More likely, you know his name from his grotesque horror fiction. In the same way his technical books are just transcriptions of his presentations, his fictional horror is just a simple reflection of someone who lives in a haunted house filled with (pet) rats in Detroit.
More information on NYCBUG:
NYCBUG (pronounced "nice bug") was launched at a small meeting in December 2003, and officially announced at the birds-of-a-feather meeting at LinuxWorld Expo in NYC in January 2004. We are a BSD user group where like-minded people get together under a single interest. Everyone is welcome. There is no official membership, no dues, and no requirements. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise noted, to listen to presentations and discuss issues affecting users today. We are also on IRC, #nycbug on libera.
Aside from all the obvious things a user group does, we hope to provide a "forum for discussion and a bridge to learning". You will find BSD advocates here at NYCBUG, and some may even be evangelical. NYCBUG should be a BSD success story spreading more BSD success stories.
While our opinions may be strong, this does NOT mean to the exclusion of others or others' opinions. We hope you agree that sharing knowledge and occasionally teaching someone who does not know is good for all. We hope you agree that all open source is a good thing... regardless of mascot or license. We do not find the words free|open offensive.
Anyone is allowed to give presentations, however, we do not allow vendors to present nor have free access to the user base.
