Ohio LinuxFest Announces Kirk McKusick to be a keynote speaker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kirk McKusick to Keynote Ohio LinuxFest 2013

Columbus, Ohio - July 30. Ohio LinuxFest is very pleased to announce that
Kirk McKusick will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 event, to be held
September 13-15 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

Kirk McKusick is a longtime promoter of Free Software, particularly the
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) of Unix. In the early days he shared
an office with Bill Joy (later founder of Sun Microsystems), and is
credited with designing the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS). He
implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk
integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of
UFS known as "UFS2", and is primarily responsible for creating the
complementary features of filesystem snapshots and background fsck (file
system check and repair).

Kirk is also on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine, and has served
twice as President of the Usenix Association. (1990-1992, and 2002-2004)

Media Contact: Kevin O'Brien, Publicity Director 1-734-224-8520
news@ohiolinux.org http://www.ohiolinux.org

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