Subject: NetBSD at the 4th Chemnitz Linux-day: A Daemon among Penguins March 9/10 was a big "Linux" event at the university of Chemnitz, Germany. About 1500 attendees visited technical sessions in several tracks, went to the "install fest", watched demonstrations or participated in workshops. The event also had some BSD content: a booth with (Net)BSD was available as well as several presentations mentioning NetBSD in detail. The (Net)BSD booth was manned by Karl Uwe Lockhoff, Andre Niklas and Hubert Feyrer. On display were a Shark doing a slideshow, a i386/-current machine showing vanilla X with xterms and twm ("this is what you get with the NetBSD base distriution") and a notebook that had KDE2, Netscape, OpenOffice etc. running ("This is what you get by installing third party applications from pkgsrc"). Available print documentation included a printout of Federico Lupi's "NetBSD Guide", a copy of "Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" as well as the german-language book "BSD mit Methode". Wasabi Systems donated a bunch of 1.5.2 CDs (thanks!) that were handed out. (Let's toss some numbers: from the 1500 visitors, 40 were interrested in getting a CD). There were also two boxes of the 1.5.2+pkgs release from Wasabi available (not for handing out) that did attract people. Two plush BSD daemons helped getting attention as well as the above-mentioned slideshow running on the shark. A preview of the latter is available at http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt4-slideshow.gif, full archive at http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt4-slideshow.tgz. Presentations that mentioned NetBSD in quite popular ways or used it for demonstrations included "DNS with BIND9", "BIND9 with IPv6" "Migration to IPv6 with 6to4" and "*BSD - Alternatives to Linux". Surprisingly, each of the presentations had >50 attendees (in contrast to the 3-5 people that we expected ;-). General information on the 4th Chemnitz Linux-day can be found at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/ which will get updated with links to presentations (including mp3 streams) within the next few days. As a summary, the (Net)BSD booth was a big success, and it did definitely fit into all the other Linux-centric presentations and demos. A booth for CLT5 is in the works. :) - Hubert