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Having finally flown back home, recovered from the gain/loss of sleep, time zones, and of course, the obligatory luggage being lost, we're trying to wrap-up the latest installment of LinuxWorld. If you are interested in some commentary and stories coming out of LWCE, click below. The big issue of LWCE was something that didn't occur even in the same state as the show. The Red Hat IPO, complete with lotsa confusion and news went up, and showed that, yes, Wall Street is interested in Linux.

One of the more interesting commentaries brought up the newest Linux Spokesperson-Casper Weinberger. Yes, the former Secretary of Defense is an Open Source guy. Strange. It also brings up the living penguins that were on the show floor. I dunno-it still seems to me that live animals on a show floor has to be tantamount of animal abuse, under some sort of law.

A number of good interviews came out of the show - one with RMS where he talks about the whole GNU/Linux thing, Communism. The interview is done in the inimitable Stallman style, so...be warned. *grin* In a parellel vein, ESR talked with ZD, foretelling amongst other things, the downfall of Microsoft and FUD issues. MSNBC did a nice story on Gnome, giving it some of the props needed. The KDE folks were also at the shows, with some nice displays at their screen in the booth.

We spent almost every waking moment in the .Org pavilion, a scary sort of place with furniture with no back support, and lots of people wandering through. Included amongst these people was no less then three documentary film crews. I think two+ is a sign that a movement has reached commericial mainstream. So, uh, congrats to....someone.

Some great picture shots came in - thanks, as always, to Marc Merlins' wrap-up complete with some good shots. Marc's, as always, is incredible comprehensive. Read it. If you want some shots of .Org pavilion, the Slashdot party (Woo-hoo! Good beer! *grin* ), check out Joey Hess' page. HUGE # of pictures, and still more going up.

The show was fun. Lotsa people who we don't get to see, except at the conventions. The commericial element was stronger then at the last show, but I think it was evident that the companies attending understood that they at least needed to give a nod to the feelings of the Community. This being the 2nd round of a show this size, I think the initial glamour of "Woo! Big Show!" is wearing off, and people are getting to work at these. It makes things a little less glamourous, but what the attendees/exhibitors of the show did see is that Linux is something to be taken seriously. Every major media outlet had people there, warndering the floor, and media like CNN ran pieces about it during the show. With the first IPO under its' belt, the establishment of several major shows, and major vendors established on the scene, I think Linux continued success looks good.

An anonymous tipster contributed the following "To make it easier for hackers to write GNOME apps and make contributions to GNOME, the GNOME developers have just opened up the GNOME developers' site, where you can find brain dumps of their knowledge on the GNOME architecture, as well white papers, tutorials, FAQs, and web-browseable source code. " The site really does contain a lot of good documentation, and actually looks quite nice, I think.

Havoc Pennington (the guy who does those weekly GNOME summaries, among other things) writes "I've just completed a book on GTK+/GNOME programming to be released under a free license. You can pre-order from Amazon now; it should be available in a couple months. The full announcement is on www.gnome.org. "

Booker sent us a message from [RMS] found on the Gnome mailing list where he says "The FSF would gladly pay someone $20k for the rights to a well-written and comprehensive GNOME programming manual. We would then publish as free documentation--free as in freedom, of course. We would sell copies in bookstores, just as these companies do, just as we do for our existing manuals."

Hot on the heel of his recent interview with the BBC, Miguel is in a RealPlayer inteview, talking about how Gnome is helping Linux grow up in the desktop market. Check out the full interview at NMTV. And if you need RealPlayer, check out our recent story about RealPlayer for Linux.

Booker writes "Miguel has posted a status report of the Gnome project to the Gnome mailing list. A good summary of what's been done, and what remains. And an admission that Gnome 1.0 might have been a leeeetle bit premature. Many packages are up to 1.0.8, and in my experience, they are vastly improved since the 1.0.0 days. Also, RHLabs has released a full set of Gnome RPMS for RH 5.2 systems, with all the latest stuff. "

Booker writes "Miguel has posted a status report of the Gnome project to the Gnome mailing list. A good summary of what's been done, and what remains. And an admission that Gnome 1.0 might have been a leeeetle bit premature. Many packages are up to 1.0.8, and in my experience, they are vastly improved since the 1.0.0 days. Also, RHLabs has released a full set of Gnome RPMS for RH 5.2 systems, with all the latest stuff. "

EmilEifrem wrote in to tell us that 32BitsOnline review where CDE vs Gnome duke it out. Not sure why exactly KDE isn't in the shuffle, but I'll spoil it for you: GNOME wins.

Eric Harlow, author of Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK has written a book well worth reading. A good first round of things, click below to find out how to write more of applications/widgets/whatever. Thanks to A.M. Kuchling for the review. Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK author Eric Harlow pages publisher New Riders rating 6 reviewer A.M. Kuchling ISBN summary A reasonably good first book on GTK+, though it's not likely to become the definitive one unless the second edition makes some minor improvements. REVIEW: Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK Eric Harlow New Riders

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Review: A reasonably good first book on GTK+, though it's not likely to become the definitive one unless the second edition makes some minor improvements.
Rating: 6/10 A.M. Kuchling The Scenario-->

The GTK+ GUI toolkit was developed for the GIMP, and was subsequently adopted by both the current Mozilla codebase and the GNOME project. I believe this is the first formally published documentation for the GTK+ toolkit. (It is not a generic guide to application development under Linux, even though the spine of the book reads only "Developing Linux Applications".)

The book provides good coverage of the fundamentals that you need to know: the basic data structures provided by GLIB; the overviews of buttons, menus, dialog boxes, and all the other major widgets; and four sample applications -- a calculator, text editor, Minesweeper game, molecule viewer, and a simple Defender game. Harlow's development of each topic is understandable and helpful, making the book a vast improvement over struggling through the toolkit's source code, and well worth purchasing if you want to program with GTK+.

My one major problem with the book is, surprisingly, wishing there were more screenshots in it. The opposite is true of most computer books, because a screenshot and a paragraph of text can be made to fill a whole page, and helps immensely in padding out a book to make it look bulky and comprehensive. This book goes to the opposite extreme; there's no screenshot of the calculator application at all, and only one or two screenshots for each of the other sample programs.

Another flaw is that the book seems to contain every single line of code for the sample applications. As a general rule, in any given C program, 90% of the code is uninteresting; only 10% contains the heart of the program, and the rest is all scaffolding. I would have preferred to see a dissection of the central portions of each program in pseudocode and small chunks of C code, relying on the Web to get the complete distribution, instead of having to flip past page after monospaced page of program listings. So What's In It For Me?-->

This book rates 6 out of 10 points, because it covers GTK+ quite well, and provides you with the basic information you'll need to hack with it. It would get 7 out of 10 points if there were fewer pages of code and more illustrative screenshots.

Purchase this book over at Computer Literacy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to GTK+
2. GLIB
3. Developing GUI Applications
4. Basic Widgets
5. Menus, Toolbars, and Tooltips
6. More Widgets: Frames, Text, Dialog Boxes, File Selection Dialog Box, Progress Bar
7. Writing a Calculator Application
8. Developing a Simple Word Processor
9. Minesweeper
10. Graphics Drawing Kit
11. Styles, Colors, Fonts, Cursors, and Referencing
12. Molecule Viewer Using GDK
13. Sprites and Animation
14. Trees, Clists, and Tabs
15. Creating Your Own Widgets

The illustrious Elliot Lee writes "GNOME 1.0 is now available for download. Please peruse the press release and then download it via a convenient FTP mirror (as soon as they sync up). " Update: 03/04 08:36 by J : Whoops - forgot to plug my own program! If you've installed GNOME and want scrolling Slashdot headlines on your panel, check under Panel Applets ->Amusements->SlashApp. Thanks John, Chris, Fred, and everyone else!

The illustrious Elliot Lee writes "GNOME 1.0 is now available for download. Please peruse the press release and then download it via a convenient FTP mirror (as soon as they sync up). " Update: 03/04 08:36 by J : Whoops - forgot to plug my own program! If you've installed GNOME and want scrolling Slashdot headlines on your panel, check under Panel Applets ->Amusements->SlashApp. Thanks John, Chris, Fred, and everyone else!

Sam Vilain writes "Just announced on the GNOME mailing list is GNOME 0.99.8, the "Still Conspicuously Skillful Cow" release. Check out This page for a list of ways to get it and for ftp mirror sites etc. Miguel has obviously been taking lessons from Linus about pre-releases. "

Sam Vilain writes "Just announced on the GNOME mailing list is GNOME 0.99.8, the "Still Conspicuously Skillful Cow" release. Check out This page for a list of ways to get it and for ftp mirror sites etc. Miguel has obviously been taking lessons from Linus about pre-releases. "

Science writes " GNOME "Skillful and Conspicuous Cow" 0.99.7 has been released. No more apes. Cows rule. "

Science writes " GNOME "Skillful and Conspicuous Cow" 0.99.7 has been released. No more apes. Cows rule. "

VinceV sent us a link to a new site he's started up called Control-Escape.com which aims to be a help site for novice linux users making the migration from those less known alternative OSs from Redmond. jedgar wrote in to announce the Feb. Edition of DaemonNews and FreeBSD 'zine, and Squeezer wrote in to say that the feb. issue of Ext2 is out. (Mention one, ya gotta mention 9 more. Sheesh *grin*) Several other folks wrote in to note that The GNOME Project has released 0.99.5. Justin Clarke wrote in to show us Rioport.com which is Diamond's new site to connect Rio owners with legal MP3s. danmil noted another Slashdot reference in the mainstream- this one is in a NY times story. Now we have a few funny bits not for the Moral and Pure: the_gimp sent us a link to what is probably the most amusing patent in recent memory. Glad that's patented. Don't want that technology uncontrolled. Somewhat related, behhl sent us a site that was bound to happen- AdultLinux. You can guess what it's for. And lastly, for the strangest bit of the day, Hans sent us a link to Furniture Porn. Fear. And hide your children.

Robert Flemming wrote in to say that KDE 1.1pre2 is out. I also noticed that GNOME has 0.99.3 RPMs available now if you're into that. LoCoPuff sent us a link to a CNN article about theWindows Refund that mentions Slashdot and quotes me (cough cough). Nate wrote in to say "Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies" meet the Everything 2 code in The Oblique Strategies Garden. Indeterminacy=fun. " Robert Dale sent us a parody of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life called Lust For Linux (surprise) For todays Star Wars bits, Alan Shutko sent us a link to pictures of Official Star Wars Legos. And the todays flashback comes from The_Black_Macrame who sent a link to the complete errata list from the original Star Wars. It's an oldie, but a goodie. hangman got bored and decided to trash a DEC 2100 and post pictures. Check it out if you're into computer mutilation. An anonymous reader sent us a link to one image you don't want to see on an ATM. And lastly, jhack sent us a link to a nice little page on painting your mac black if you happen to think that blue color is a bit excessive. The final results are pretty sharp. Now stop reading quickies and go compile your 2.2 kernel.

Greyfox wrote in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge. In a related bit, GVeloper wrote in to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation at GTK Dev Central Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel 2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it. My favorite BSD Equal Time activist, Jesse Shrieve wrote in to tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares to attach to your cases. maphew sent us a link to milo which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada. That was my first programming experience. Next, a few Slashdot bits: Epitaph sent us a interesting little piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The results of a Petition against Canadian CD-R Tax. rive submitted a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus. Clever. DGibson wrote in to tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click. Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page. and William Tanksley sent us a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be afraid.

First up is a pretty cool Slashdot bit: drwii sent us a link to Scanned in Proof that Slashdot is actually in the Feb print edition of PC Magazine. Spiffy. An anonymous reader sent us a wired article explaining Wired. Wired the deal with MP4s. `PEZ sent us a couple of links to more information about the 'Yepp' MP3 player- The samsung announcement and the Yepp Web Page will quench your thirst for knowledge. svetz wrote in to say that Gnome 0.99.3 is on. desertAngel was the first to squeel that 2.2.0pre7 is out. Alron Dameon-ArkMoon wrote in to say that LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers. schvin wrote in to plug portico.org, a new *Nix tips and tricks page. saturated wrote in to say that apparently Linux Now! is back on line after a little absence. Michael Howard sent us a must see penguin image. ToiletDuk sent us a great pyromaniac web site- fireballs with bic lighters? Don't burn yourself. soren.harward wrote in to tell us that stomped.com has Quake III Arena movies if you're curious what your future will look like. cynbe sent us a link to an amusing piece called The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom: How Linux Smashed Windows. It's funny. I think.

Lot's of people submitted each of these, but the quick summary is that there are new GNOME 0.99.2 RPMs available at the usual places. Not enough for ya? How about a new Apache? 1.3.4 is now out. And if that isn't enough stuff to keep you busy, the Linux 2.2pre7 Kernel has also been released.

doobman wrote in to tell us that GNOME has a nice little update online about the new canvas stuff which features (among other things) built in anti aliasing. Yum.

doobman wrote in to tell us that GNOME has a nice little update online about the new canvas stuff which features (among other things) built in anti aliasing. Yum.

Carl wrote in to to quote Linus regarding the 2.2.0pre2 release:"If you haven't had problems with pre1, there should be no major cause to look at pre2. But if you haven't even looked at pre1 yet, please consider looking at the pre-2.2.0 kernels before it's too late. I'm going to be extremely rude to people who knew better but didn't test out the pre-kernels and then send me bug-reports on the released 2.2.0." An anonymous reader also wrote in to say that gnome.org has updated and announced the 0.99.1 release of several of the relevant packages. Lot's of stuff to download and compile if *cough* you don't have plans for New Years.

PsyKotyk wrote in to say that GNOME has released the 0.99 version of the manual for, well, GNOME obviously. Let the Guide guide you.

An anonymous reader wrote in to yell that a new version of GNOME has appeared on the FTP Site. It's numbered 0.99, and I don't see RPMs or DEBs yet, but there's plenty of that .tar.gz yumminess to compile if you manage to get on the (crowded) FTP sites..

An anonymous reader wrote in to yell that a new version of GNOME has appeared on the FTP Site. It's numbered 0.99, and I don't see RPMs or DEBs yet, but there's plenty of that .tar.gz yumminess to compile if you manage to get on the (crowded) FTP sites..

Booker writes "I'm just wondering... did anyone notice that Enlightenment DR 0.15 was released with the Gnome 0.99 stuff? It's over at ftp.gnome.org, under the gnome directory. RPMs and debs, as well. The E page isn't updated yet, so perhaps this isn't the 0.15 release?" update Apparently, although LinuxToday also published this story earlier today, readers are stating that this is just a CVS snapshot of what will be DR 0.15. Oh well. Updated title accordingly. update 2: Mandrake has confirmed this is not DR-0.15. Updated title again.

Booker writes "I'm just wondering... did anyone notice that Enlightenment DR 0.15 was released with the Gnome 0.99 stuff? It's over at ftp.gnome.org, under the gnome directory. RPMs and debs, as well. The E page isn't updated yet, so perhaps this isn't the 0.15 release?" update Apparently, although LinuxToday also published this story earlier today, readers are stating that this is just a CVS snapshot of what will be DR 0.15. Oh well. Updated title accordingly. update 2: Mandrake has confirmed this is not DR-0.15. Updated title again.

Booker writes "I'm just wondering... did anyone notice that Enlightenment DR 0.15 was released with the Gnome 0.99 stuff? It's over at ftp.gnome.org, under the gnome directory. RPMs and debs, as well. The E page isn't updated yet, so perhaps this isn't the 0.15 release?" update Apparently, although LinuxToday also published this story earlier today, readers are stating that this is just a CVS snapshot of what will be DR 0.15. Oh well. Updated title accordingly. update 2: Mandrake has confirmed this is not DR-0.15. Updated title again.

Chris Frost sent us some news on GNOME. "The gnome-libs and gnome-core modules are now frozen on CVS, with a GNOME_STABLE branch for each. No new functionality and only bug fixes should go into this branch. Please see the announcement on gnome-list for information on checking out the branches from CVS. Distribution tarballs and binary packages will be available shortly. "

jesus writes "As the Gnome release approaches, the wizards over at RHAD posted some screenshots to wet your appetite. Check out the desktop icons from MC, gnomecard, the gtk themes, the Windows-killer klondike :) " Very excellent stuff over there. Definitely worth wasting some bandwidth if you're into this sort of thing.

If you're bored, there's a ton of strange links on the next page, selected by the warped minds of my slashdot co-authors ;-).

tom writes various stuffed Tux's (including a 1m high one), BSD Daemons and a TeX Lion at link (under "Un*x fan shop" and "ZU DEN ARTIKELN" - unfortunately the site's in German, but they speak English). Excellent quality, IMHO.

Robert Ennals writes A writer for the guardian/observer has a mention of one of their articles being linked from slashdot and considers this honour to be the "nearest I'll get to a Nobel prize" link

Kam writes Furniture Porn. Not much else to say... link

Louis Bertrand writes The December issue of DaemonNews, the monthly ezine devoted to the three open-source BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) is available at link

SpaceDust writes No URL on this one, and not sure if it is really a /. thing. A friend who works at EA, tells me they are currently in Beta for Sim City 3000. Supported platforms will be Windows (mid Jan) and MacOS (in 6 months) I guess Linux gets squat (though, the /. effect may convince them otherwise) It's not too much different than "SC2k" except for a couple of new buildings, an improved interface, and now you have to manage garbage as well. They're in late Beta now, it's pretty stable and most of the major problems have been resolved but it still needs some tuning.

Josh Mast writes According to ,"> link A new opensource DOOM port has been started. "The Open Gaming Resource Engine project has been launched. This is a manifestation of the "Merger" project among members of leading DOOM source code projects, and will be an open source project. Looks nifty, maybe we'll finally have a decent port of DOOM for Linux now.

che guevara writes You bet it!!! I was surfing around on Camneerg- and saw this site that has an iMac that was hacked for a disk drive. You can get some info here, but don't try this if you don't want to void your warranty! Peace.

Brent Dearth writes ever since i got their demo tape at an underworld site, i've been searching for Market's webpage. well, i found it, and they have a couple mp3's full length for download. not really news, but i recall Hemos having good taste in music. link (sorry didn't paste)

Ben Smith writes The Onion has a silly little iMac joke in their new issue. In the left side column they have a neon blue stapler, and the caption says " New Stapler Makes All Other Staplers Look Like Worthless Shit". Good for a midday laugh.

Anonymous Coward writes Steven Hawking will appear on the Simpsons. Go figure. link

Anonymous Coward writes Kinda slow site.. (geocities) but well worth it :))))) link

Anonymous Coward writes More GNOME screenshots are available on the GNOME web site.

Dr Mike writes "The Rasterman has released a spec for making any window manager compliant with GNOME. Window managers complying with this specification will gain: - the gnome pager will work "out of the box" - gmc will be able to get root window button presses (allowing a root menu which is the same/similar to the panel start menu to be brought up) - icons on the desktop will properly layer - the panel will be a managed app The specification is available at: link " Oh man - how cool is that? This come just in time for the upcoming gnome-libs 1.0 freeze (of which yours truly is assisting with).

Thomas Muldowney writes "Mozilla screenshots using GTK are up on Mozbin " They've also got binaries and stuff if you're interested, I haven't tested them, I have no clue how they are. Probably ought to download one and get Slashdot to render under it *grin*. J Thanks should go to Pavlov and msw. Also, msw just told me Rob's wish has been fufilled: nglayout-slashdot.png.

Arturo Aldama wrote to gnome-list this afternoon announcing that a project in Mexico, Scholar Net, has decided to install GNU/Linux workstations with GNOME sofware. The software should be installed in every elementary and mid-level school in Mexico, he says. This means about 140,000 centers in the next five years. He stated reasons such as "cost, reliability, and configuration" for the decision. Here is a link to the message he sent. I don't know about you, but this made my day! As a double bonus, this means they will be aiding in GNOME development.

An anonymous read wrote in to say that Red Hat Software will no longer carry TriTeal CDE for Linux. They instead recommend either GNOME or CDE from XiGraphics

The GNOME project has released version 0.3 of Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet. Gnumeric is, from what I can see, progressing very nicely. In addition the gnome-games and gnome-admin 0.30 modules were released today. RPMs are already available. Perhaps more importantly, we have a sort of call to arms - the "code name" for 0.30 is "Bouncing Bonobo". The Bonobo species is in danger of extinction, however. If you would like to help, or would like more info, check the GNOME web page, or the Bonobo Protection Fund.

Version 0.30 of the gnome-core, gnome-utils, and gnome-media modules have been released. Featuring lots of improvements and bugfixes, they are sure to please. In addition, version 0.2 of the GNOME spreadsheet, Gnumeric, has been released. This one sounds neat, since it uses the gnome-xml module. Finally, raster has released version 1.8.1 of imlib. Check the GNOME home page for more info.

Miguel de Icaza has announced version 0.30 of the GNOME libraries ("Bouncing Bonobo"). The new libraries are much more stable and is the first release with CORBA support in the core. Other new features include the GNOME metadata library implementation, the GNORBA library (for mixing CORBA & GNOME), and much better documentation. Update: Miguel wrote in with a link where you can read about the bonobo.

Stuart Parmenter writes "Balsa, the GNOME email client has finally been released! Balsa uses a library form of mutt as a backend, so it is much faster than many other email clients that use c-client for mail. This release of Balsa includes many features. Please check out the website for more information! "

I know a lot of you still had trouble compiling v0.27 of GNOME, so it's probably worth noting that GNOME is now available in binary format. You can download the latest RPM's from the FTP-site.

I know a lot of you still had trouble compiling v0.27 of GNOME, so it's probably worth noting that GNOME is now available in binary format. You can download the latest RPM's from the FTP-site.

CrazyLion writes "The Gnome team has released 0.27, which seems to be intended to be a bugfix release for 0.25 which had quite a few build problems." To get the software, go here.

CrazyLion writes "The Gnome team has released 0.27, which seems to be intended to be a bugfix release for 0.25 which had quite a few build problems." To get the software, go here.

Gnome.org has announced the availability of v0.25 ("Drooling Macaque") of the Gnome Project. The new releases features bug fixes, menu editing code, some new games, new-and-improved versions of all the Gnome apps and more.

Hallow writes "Recently Chris Toshok released his initial work on a gtk front end for mozilla. It's now in the gnome CVS. (see postings in news:netscape.public.mozilla.gtk for more info.) Well, one of the gnome developers has a screenshot of an at least somewhat functional version! Whopee! "

Pierce wrote in to tell us that the Gnome v0.20 RPMs have been pulled offline while they try to solve a problem that apparently is breaking apps compiled against older GTKs. So everyone should either try the tar.gz files, or hold off a few days while the Gnomes work it out.

Robert Outlaw wrote in to tell us that GNOME 0.20 has made an appearance on the Official FTP Site. Tarballs and RPM's are availiable at RHAD's Site as

It's been quite a day folks. I decided that I will take a few minutes to give everyone a bit more details about the adventures that we're having out here. Hit the link below to read everything that I can think of that happened today that might have been interesting.

I was exhausted after the previous days ordeals, and overslept a bit, but we road in to the convention center 10ish in the shuttle bus. And who was onboard but Alan Cox. Good thing Dave spent the whole time talking about Genitalia and Nuclear weapons.

After registration we went to see Migel de Icaza do a whole deal on GNOME. For the first half of the lecture he operated without his slides, but still did a great job. He talked quite a bit about all the cool stuff that they'll be doing in the near future- a lot about Corba specifically. We're going to see a host of cool stuff from these guys in the next few months that will really make Linux rock for the newbies, without screwing those of us who like things a bit more hardcore.

Raster and Mandrake tolerated my presence for a bit; Geoff was hard at work getting config code into E14. They explained a few of the cooler/crazier features that we're gonna get in the very near future... all I can say is that we're all going to have a lot of fun.

I mentioned a few of my favorite booths earlier today in an article posted from the Email garden... I didn't have much time to really focus on all of them for very long. Actually, tomorrow there are several speakers that I want to see too, so I probably won't get to spend serious time at a lot of the booths.

Dave just wanted everyone to know that RMS looked at him weird. It made is day.

Linus' keynote was pretty cool. He handled the applause quite well all things considered *grin*. He spent most of the time talking about SMP, along with various other tidbits about the devel trees and his email load. He fielded a ton of questions on every subject from TMS to what's coming next for the kernel. to the Linux Development model. And no, he didn't tell us what Transmeta does (gggrrrr *grin*)

Next time I'll be takin' notes- he had a ton of great zingers, but I know perfectly well that the responsible news sources will take care of that for us.

I actually got to see an Itsy after the event. No idea on when we'll actually get to see a production model, but it's just so sweet guys! It played mpegs back on its little 320 pixel wide screen and runs on 2 AAA batteries. I'm in total awe.

Spent some time chatting with ESR. Gonna hear him speak tomorrow. Got to meet a host of people. It's just really cool to shake hands with all these people who email me, and post comments out here, and actually do the stuff we talk about on Slashdot each day. Lots of fun.

Jeff and Nate are brought in chicken. Now and we shall have a great feast, and I shall spend the rest of the evening getting carded at the hotel par. It sucks to look like I'm 14 *grin*.

Federico Mena let us know that you can get a New Gnome if you're interested. Number 0.13 has expanded pretty significantly to encompass a wide array of utilities, and many more are on the wings. Check out The Official Site for more details, or just download the new version and enjoy the cool new toys. Gnome has crossed over the line from toy to tool guys, It's pretty exciting. I hope anyone developing under motif is paying attention.