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Marc Balmer | 8 Feb 2010 12:18
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FOSDEM 2010

FOSDEM 2010 took place in Brussels the past weekend.  From a NetBSD
perspective, it was a very successfull conference, here's my short feedback:

There was a FreeBSD and a NetBSD booth, each about 4 square meters, both
next to each other.  About 7000 geeks attended the event and we had
lot's of interesting and in-depth technical discussions at the BSD
booths.  It is always amazing that there are still Linux users that have
no idea that the BSDs even exist...  Well, we could change that at least
in some cases ;)

I gave two talks, one in the PostgreSQL devroom, and one in the BSD
devroom, and I used the occasion to mention and evangelize NetBSD a bit.

- Marc Balmer
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Kevin Lahey | 26 Feb 2010 17:13

SCALE 8x

For the sixth year in a row, we ran a NetBSD booth at the
Southern California Linux Expo.  Fellow developer John Klos, John
Hickey, and I[*] answered questions ranging from, "Can I run
aolserver on NetBSD?" to "How come NetBSD 5.0.2-i386 crashes when I
try to install it under VirtualBox?" to "Should we sign each other's
developer keys?"  (Okay, that last was from John Klos, but still...)
We had a great time, got to compare notes on retrocomputing, and
hopefully convinced a few folks that NetBSD is the way to go!

I wouldn
Kevin
kml <at> patheticgeek.net

[*] We're all local folks.  I drove the farthest, around 50 miles
each way.  I point this out, as some folks expressed frustration
last year that NetBSD had a booth at SCALE but not at other *BSD
events.  It's all about location, location, location.
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