Wilfredo Sanchez, head of the Darwin project at Apple, has a report of his appearance and impressions of FreeBSD Con '99. Always interesting to see how users of other unixes look at Darwin. Here is his report:

It was a good conference. About 300 attendees, I think. The reception of Apple at the whole thing was very friendly; people in the BSD world are glad to see our growing involvement. Some are still (reasonably) wondering whether it will work out, but the bottom line is we like FreeBSD and FreeBSD likes us.

I gave a little talk on Darwin on Wednessday; the room was quite full. No big new announcements; mostly it was a chance to meet people. The sendmail article is a nice summary. Good thing I didn't use that "synergy" slide...

People asked questions, and I gave away 0.3 CD's, which were quickly taken to BSD machines which couldn't mount them and then people broke out with hex editors to figure out how to make it work. They'll be needing HFS+ support. :-) I had a lot of fun. But now I'm zonked out; need sleep.

I learned a few things at the documentation talk; the FreeBSD Documentation Project seems like they have a good plan for doing docs, and I think we should figure out how to work with them on documentation.

-Fred