Hello,
The registration for the anual Swiss Unix Conference has been

opened. The online registration form can be found at:
       https://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/register.html
If you register before August 9 you can benefit from early bird

registration discounts and save 40% on all fees and additionaly

get the chance to win O'Reilly books.
    SUCON'04 - 2nd Swiss Unix Conference

    September 2-4, 2004

    Technopark, Zurich

    http://www.sucon.ch/
Some BSD highlits:
   Poul-Henning Kamp

      Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now):

         UNIX is the best operating system ever designed so

         everybody is running UNIX on their computer, right ?

         This presentation takes a partisan looks a why UNIX

         never became a big success in the eighties, failed to

         win the market in the nineties, and still struggles in

         the market in the new millenium. Poul-Henning will take

         a critical look at the mistakes of the past and the

         mistakes of the present and try to make it really clear

         what needs to happen for UNIX to become a real success.
   Hubert Feyrer

      NetBSD Status Report Fall 2004

         As a follower of the Berkeley 4.4BSD Unix operating

         system, NetBSD is the oldest Open Source operating

         system project under development today. With it's focus

         on portability to a wide range of hardware, NetBSD is

         equally good for running on desktop PCs, various server

         hardware as well as a wide range of contemporaty

         handheld and embedded devices. A lot has happened since

         the project started, and with finally reaching the

         NetBSD 2.0 release after more than 10 years, this talk

         will give an overview of the past events from both

         technical and project administrative point of view,

         introduce where the NetBSD project stands today and what

         some of the plans for the future are.
   Henning Brauer

      A Secure BGP Implementation

         The Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, is the standard

         protocol to exchange routing information. So-called full

         mesh BGP peers build up a table describing the entire

         Internet. When something goes wrong with bgp, such as

         loosing tcp session(s) or the bgp daemon dieing, the

         affected router is loosing all its routes and the

         affected site may disappear from the internet until the

         problem is fixed. If an attacker is able to insert

         routes remotely the implications are even worse. The

         basics of the BGP protocol are going to be looked at

         from a security point of view, especially taking care

         about the tcp session, and what has been done in OpenBSD

         and the included bgpd to secure BGP.
And may more. See http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/programme_f.html
Hope to see you at the conference!
Best Regards

   Ihsan Dogan