From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 22 11:48:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C6437B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (milan.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1662D43E3B for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C81A91F; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:48:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C9F971523A; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:48:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:48:19 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org, sales@bsdmall.com, bsd-events@unix-ag.uni-kl.de Subject: Report: BSD at the Linux-Kongress 2002 Cologne, Germany Message-ID: <20020922184819.GA25745@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From 4th to 6th of September, the 9th International Linux-Kongress took place in Cologne, Germany. The Linux-Kongress is the developer congress for Linux in Europe. But what is a Linux event without a BSD booth? :-) In contrast to our booth at the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, we actually had one or more computers running each, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Among them, obscure hardware like a MicroVAX, PDP-11, Dreamcast and more common hardware like a PowerMac, SparcStation 10 and a PC. People were particulary interested in the more obscure stuff mentioned above ;-) Another interesting piece of hardware was the BSD booth webcam which delivered a 24 hour picture of the booth to the outside world. Other things we were showing included several books ("The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System", "The FreeBSD Corporate Networkers Guide", "FreeBSD", "UNIX Network Programming" and "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers"), several issues of Daemon News, BIM flyers and a printout version of Sebastian Benner's FreeBSD introduction (thanks to Dirk Meyer) which many people were very interested in. Stuff we were handing out for free or for a small change included FreeBSD 4.6 CDs and stickers (kindly donated by Daemon News Mall), NetBSD 1.5.2 all archs/no packages, NetBSD stickers (kindly donated by Wasabi Systems) and the usual OpenBSD merchandise Wim Vandeputte sent us (with more or less trouble, never trust a german package delivery service ;-). Interesting bits and pieces: - Moshe Bar told me that he's working on a FreeBSD version of his OpenMosix clustering software - German package delivery services suck - People like old hardware :-) - Daemon News Mall and Wasabi Systems donated CDs, Stickers and some other stuff, thanks! - No FreeBSD/NetBSD shirts/posters, the OpenBSD folks showed once again what merchandising can look like - Thanks to the Linux-Kongress organizers and the GUUG for letting us participate and for the nice food! - Next event will be the Linuxdays of Luxembourg Oct 1-3 2002 (http://www.linuxday.lu) All in all, the booth was another great opportunity to show what BSD is and that it's a real alternative. We are still looking for some people who want to participate in a BSD booth at the Linuxdays Luxembourg. So if you got some spare time and want to promote BSD, please contact Hubert Feyrer Pictures: - http://unixpages.org/pics/Linux-Kongress-2002/ The online-version of this report can be found at: - http://unixpages.org/events/linux-kongress-2002.html - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0DB5 8563 2473 C72A A8D1 56EA DAD2 B05D 5F3C 3185 GPG Key ID : DAD2B05D5F3C3185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message