The Haps from LWCE: Samba Wins, RH w/XFS, BOF

We've been at LinuxWorld for the last couple days, and some interesting stuff has been going on: The SAMBA folks won the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds award, and SGI announced the availability of RH7-based distro using XFS ^[?] . In other news, our BOF went well with many questions about Slashcode - and the Perl Monks booth has been doing great in donations. Update: 02/01 05:18 PM by CT : The highlight for me so far was judging the "Coveted" Golden Penguin Awards w/ Don. Actually, I seriously did covet the award, beautiful hand blown glass penguin made me wish I was a contestant. We judged that Linus got the definition of BogoMIPS wrong. Fortunately his still won, but it was truly joyous seeing the surprise on his face.

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Not a separate distro!

[BlowCat]

SGI announced the availability of RH7-based distro

In fact, it's just a modified installer for RedHat 7.0 that allows you to install it on XFS.

There are similar installers that make it possible to install RedHat, Debian and even Slackware on ReiserFS. More details on freshmeat.net

In short, it's not a separate Linux distribution from SGI.

LinuxWorld Webcasts

[lamefrog]

Penguin awards ceremony and other webcasts from LW available here at Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast. Includes MP3s.

Re:Linux World

[jbrw]

News.com has some video in RealVideo or Windows Media Player up now. They seem to be cutting over to a reporter live on the floor of the show, so I expect they'll be putting more up as they find their stories.

The slashdot stand looks kinda slick...

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Re:How stable is XFS right now

[Booker]

The official line from the XFS website is:

Thanks to the extensive interest and contributions from the community, the XFS filesystem for Linux has made significant progress since its Beta release in September 2000. Although there are still some features to be finalized, the Beta code is currently stable in a majority of normal environments. We welcome and encourage interested users to try out the code aggressively in your test environments so that we can work through the final stage of the development and bug fixes to meet your production needs.

I'm running it exclusively on my home workstation at this point, FWIW.

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Makes my job much easier

[ayden]

This is great news!

Our research department made the decision to move from SGI Octanes at $30K a pop to cheap x86 boxes running Red Hat. Each SGI box has external storage between 8 GB and 36 GB.

Practical upshot: We can hang any disk attached to an SGI off a Red Hat 7 machine. Suddenly, our job of migrating from SGI to Linux just got a lot easier.