FOSDEM. Day 1, Part 2

The OpenBSD booth ran smoothly this afternoon with numerous people coming to see us and all our posters were gone.

We had less technical questions than last year. One guy was having a bad time with his PF configuration. IIRC, he told us that he needed to open a port X on the firewall to be able to forward port X to port Y of a machine behind it. Uwe and Marc helped him with his ruleset and showed him that he was wrong. From that point, they parsed the ruleset in more details and gave him some optimization and security advices.

I also had about the same questions I had every year or so:

• What's the differences among Net, Free and OpenBSD?
  
• How do I install third-party applications under OpenBSD?
  
• Does Net, Free and OpenBSD use the same kernel?
  
• What optimizations are used in the Linux kernel used by OpenBSD? (*new entry*)
  

The Internet connection, while it kept coming and going from time to time, was far better than this morning. Thanks to Reyk and a Soekris, we had a stable wireless AP unlike the (censored) one. As a result, some slackers morphed into hackers and got some work done.

My initial plan was to attend the DTrace and Xen talks but I enjoyed the company of my fellow developers and didn't attend.

Later in the afternoon, we cleaned the booth and took the cars to go take the traditional OpenBSD dinner somewhere in the outskirts of Brussels.

We had a nice time together and the meal was good. Too bad the waitress forgot some of the orders and gave Wim chicken instead of the seafood he ordered. No worries, beer helped the mood.

I've uploaded today's remaining pictures. You might find them with the other FOSDEM 2006 pictures.