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Impressions From LinuxTag
Winfried Trümper writes: "I have published a page with public
pictures
from the LinuxTag in Stuttgart. Although
"only" 90 pictures from all sort of developers were selected, the
page is still huge. " It's a good summary page -- check it out.
"Konqi + KDE-Developer"
... isn't that KDE developer actually a slightly shrunken Frasier from TV?
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
These should be submitted to the Linux Image Montage Project!
-APCobolScript which is "a COBOL based interpreter that allows Web development"
It's official - there is no god. Next thing you know, someone will release a version of INTERCAL that produces Java bytecode.
If you really want to deal with COBOL on Linux, I suggest the 'rm' utility.
--Shoeboy
I mean I used to support Linux and thought it was really cool; a rebel, upstart, underdog OS that really might give us a chance at something new and different!
Nice troll. Can I please translate the content for you? "Linux is just the flavor-of-the-day, soon, the small core of fanatics that actually use Linux will will switch to BSD or BEOS and Linux will disappear as a threat to Microsoft". "Oh, and by the way, can you guess who I work for".
OK, so *I* am one of those "uncool" people who jumped in in the last year. Does the fact that I just landed a job with one of the coolest companies in Europe, doing nothing but Linux, getting paid to do the things that I used to do for free mean anything? Ahh... I think it's kinda cool, don't you?
How about the concept of pinning those cute penguin pins onto the shirts of young pretty girls who know nothing about Linux, and thereby get drafted to the cause. You should see what happens after a few guys explain the meaning of the penguin to the girl, ok, she's going to be a self-appointed expert soon, and there is just no other advertising space that can compete. (By the way, any lonely geeks out there, this *works* - take note.)
The bottom line: You ain't seen nothing yet. This year is only the dawn of cool.
--
Life's a bitch but somebody's gotta do it.
The first day was reserved for suits - they had to pay pretty big bugs to attend the show. I wasn't there that day, but judging by the number of suits still poking around the second day it must have been pretty heavily attended. The show was superbly organized and paced. There were big after-closing parties on Thursday and Saturday, and a dress-up dinner on Friday, with lots of goodlooking girlfriends/wives/girlgeeks in attendance. The aisles were constantly packed, and *everybody* was getting good traffic. Some boothes were really packed - particularly Corel's, which should tell you something about the level of interest in a distro aimed strictly at desktops.
:-)
I don't know exactly what the attendance figures were, but they were expecting 20,000 and it looked to me like they beat that. This year's show was three times the size of last year's, and that has happened every year for the last 4 years. It's a safe bet that next year's show will be 3 times the size again.
The last day included a job fair - graduating students getting jobs in Linux companies. Cool.
There was a continuous multiplayer drop-in game of Parsec going on about 6 computers, totally cool. Looks like Wing Commander, except the graphics are better. And no crashes at all, according to the Worldforge guy on the other side of the room.
I got a cute sqeeking toy penguin from HP for my wife, and lots of cute penguin pins. (See previous comment on what the penguin pins are good for;-) And, oh yes, a job. Hacking Linux fulltime.
I really can't say enough good things about Linuxtag.
--
Life's a bitch but somebody's gotta do it.
I say we resurect COBOL on the PRIME MiniComputer
Dear Mister Troll: It's not PRIME but PR1ME.
Please look at this picture.
I was wondering why I couldn't access the box this morning - it acts as the primary server for GnuPG and I released 1.0.2 yesterday including a Windoze version. So Winni mounted a nice DOS against an encryption software :-). You owe me a beer (but no Kölsch), Winni. Werner
You need permission for publishing photos of individuals in germany. So you don't do the guy at ndh.net/home a favour by publishing his url. Yes, I asked all the people on my photos for explicit permission to show their face. However, no response from Qt, KDE and RedHat. I contacted them three times, so I don't know why do you say I'm biased. Before you insult me in the public, you could have at least asked me, my email address is mentioned everywhere.
NT tag was much more fun to play.
...or am I confusing that with freeze tag?...
Hm...
I've been a Linux user for almost as long as its been available on the 'net for download, and always will be, but personally I'm looking forward to the release of Mac OS X as my next personal desktop OS. Linux has served me really nicely as a server OS, far better than NT for my needs, but I don't think I'll ever really get into using it as a desktop personal OS.
Mac OS X will (hopefully) fulfill my needs of a very media friendly OS with support from a company with balls and muscle enough to support it (unlike Be, which I was so damned close to switching to for good).
Your post touched a chord here, anyway. I'll be looking forward to Mac OS X as my front-end on Apple's sexy hardware, and continue putting Linux to work on hardcore backend boxes...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
You know, this might actually work. Whenever girls have looked at one of my Linux mascot dolls or the picture of the Linux Logo on my credit card, the reaction is almost universally that the penguin is very cute. I can definitely see young pretty women wanting to wear a Linux penguin pin.
Speaking of which, where can one get Tux pins?
- Sam
The secret to enjoying Slashdot is to realize that it should not be taken too seriously.
Hmm?
Uwe Wolfgang Radu
You're in luck - there's a link on the page I cited that indicates that "RM COBOL" is, in fact, supported on Linux.
Point taken Tackat!
I have to say, this is the biggest laugh Slashdot has given me in years!
(sad eh?)
:-)
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
90 pics on a server in Germany? Not only that, but based on the response time, it's a 386 server, fronted by a z-80 powered firewall.
The only possible explanation is that Hemos is cackling with diabolical laughter and telling his new bride "Look honey, I just threw 400,000 DSL connected geeks at a box that's connected to the net with tin cans and string." I bet she gets off on that. I would.
--Shoeboy
Quite frankly, it's not all that new and exciting anymore; everyone's dragging it into mediocrity, now I find myself yearning for a new "Unsung Hero" OS.
Probably just locked myself into a never-ending quest to find the perfect OS. I have no idea what to do once I find it but, hey....
There are much more images from LinuxTag here.
And it's less biased -- I miss Photos from the huge KDE Booth on LinuxTag e.g. where they showed the incredible KDE2. Have a look here:
Kalle Dalheimer
Hans Meine showing aRts, the new multmedia-framework in KDE2.
Konqi + KDE-Developer
KDE-Developers (there seemed to be much more of them there)
Konqi And someone (Takkat?) sleeping ...
Thanks to those students who organized LinuxTag and made it a complete success. In opposition to other fairs LinuxTag is a completely non-commercial event where booths are being donated including equipment to non-profit-projects. Also you can visit it for free. And the whole event is being organized by people in their sparetime just in true opensource-spirit.
I mean to post this under "Linux Announcement from Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu", so mea culpa.
Uwe Wolfgang Radu