Hong Kong LinuxWorld 2000

Jestrzcap writes "The Hong Kong Linuxworld 2000 expo kicked off yesterday More than 30 exhibitors showed up to strut their stuff and show the world what opensource can do for you. Keynote speaker, Jon Maddog Hall, kicked things off, and showed off his new book, "Red Hat Linux for Dummies". This article also highlights the giant Cobalt Qube2 servers. "

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Re:Cobalt Qube servers

[jbrw]

FWIW, the new RAQs are x86 based. Check out the press release.

I guess they get more bang per buck, development is a bit easier, and their customers may well be more comfortable running "normal" hardware.

Cobalt's products are cool - I just wish they were a bit cheaper...

For something similar, have a look at this product from rebel.com - they have some interesting bits of hardware generally.

...j

Re:Cobalt Qube servers

[Ed Avis]

But on a server, things like good disk and network are more important than raw CPU speed. Well, I suppose it depends what you run, a heavily CGI-laden site like Slashdot needs lots of raw CPU as well.

Re:Redhat is for Dummies

[paul.dunne]

Nope. Real men are too busy drinking beer and scoring with chicks to indulge in distro wars. (But we do use slackware, actually).

Hmm

[Signal 11]

Yeah, they would have adopted linux (after China), but somebody found out the feng shi was bad and had to destroy all copies of redhat. In the meantime, they aquired several linux companies like LinuxOne with an option on two more, and sold them to an overseas firm who sold them back 10 Linux firms like LinuxOne. Meanwhile money had been filtered through the switzerland accounts, and finally it came back that the originator of this had about 1 billion in cash and 13 companies that didn't exist.

Re:Hmm

[LL]

Comes from the classic cowism

"HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shui is bad."

Check out one source for others.

Hmmm ... what's with all this Linux-related bovine jokes anyway, CultoftheDeadCow, freshmeat, etc ... I don't have any beef with it but its behoofs me to point out that it could easily lead to the horn of a dilema if people stretch it too far.

Arrrgghhh ... shooting myself
LL

My friend went to this event.

[incubus]

She said it was small, around a hundred people, with just a few exhibitors and a good number of unmanned booths.
Seems like it wasn't promoted enough.
From the HKLUG's website, they are going to be charging for membership in the HKLUG. Seems like a bad idea to me.
We need someone to go over there and start some advocacy.

Re:My friend went to this event.

[Coppertone]

Well, I do invlove in the HKLUG and know the guys out there - bascially being really materialistic out there we have trouble finding companies sponsoring us events and things - they cannot believe there is such "Free" things in life. So we have to charge a bit of membership fee and things, just to give us top up and things, and we will send members CDs and stuff.. I personally have put a lot of effort in helping them while I am out there (unfortunately I am studying in UK at the moment)..

Anyway, HKLUG are fairly small at the moment - so there is a lot to be done and it takes time!

Don't blame the poor guys!