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Impressions From LinuxTag

Posted by Hemos on from the good-news dept.

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.

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  1. Linuxtag was a complete success by SurfsUp · · Score: 4

    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.
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  2. It's official, Hemos hates us. by Shoeboy · · Score: 5

    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