Subject: NetBSD at the Ohio Linux Fest
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/17/2006 17:53:23
[I'm writing this on behalf of Jason R. Fink, who cared for NetBSD being
presented at the Ohio Linux Fest - all the data given below was extracted
from Jason, and he did all the work, so please praise him for the
excellent work, and sent complaints about errors below to me! :-]
Jason tells us that ``[f]or those who were at BSDCon03 we had about 4x the
number of visitors. Most people were interested in the following (in no
particular order):
- MMU support
- our toolchain (a few FreeBSD users were real interested in this)
- pkgsrc; more specifically it's portability which
proved to be a real point of interest.
The rest were more *what is NetBSD*.
Complaints:
- I didn't have enough swag, apparently only
handing out flyers and having 2 posters isn't
enough. Some people were okay with no cd's some
were not. Next time (if I am still in the area)
I will look into reselling some swag we have
at cafepress and maybe ordering a few rolls of
stickers.
- I only had one NetBSD demo machine. Although
Steve and I did not have a lot of room anyhow, Not
sure how I can *fix* that :-)''
Jason added that he'd like to thank Steve Dickinson and Tom Rhodes for
their help: Steve has been a long time user and NetBSD supporter and
helped ironing out a few bugfixes, he has a homepage at
http://sdickinson.dyndns.org/. Tom Rhodes from the FreeBSD project helped
us out by standing in a few times and answering FreeBSD and *BSD
questions.
- Hubert