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Linux 10th Anniversary Celebration Report

Posted by Hemos on from the happy-birthday-to-you dept.

Marc MERLIN wrote to us with his follow-up report on the Linux 10 celebration in Silicon Valley. Marc comments "The event was a great success, several hundred people showed up, and the money left over is going to the EFF." Marc, in addition to being a great guy, also has lots of reports from other shows.

70 comments

  1. Nerds! by sys$manager · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hahaha, that's the uber-nerdiest gathering I've ever seen.

  2. Linux World Domination Report: 8/2001 by sllort · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bent on taking over the billion dollar Desktop OS Market from industry giant and public pariah Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), the Linux movement celebrated it's 10th year of anti-corporate warfare and paradigm-shifting muscle by getting these guys to cook some burgers.

    Step 2: World Domination!

    In other news, something important happened.

    1. Re:Linux World Domination Report: 8/2001 by Dead+Nietzsche · · Score: 1

      In fact, you can get world domination by burgers.
      Ever noticed that right after the fall of the iron curtain a Mc Donalds open up in Moscow ?

      These open source guys might seem naive, but they have a rather wicked and plotting mind.

      Beware the open source burgers.
      snigger

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    2. Re:Linux World Domination Report: 8/2001 by mbyte · · Score: 2

      > In other news, something important happened.

      Yeah .. like Intel showing a P4 running at 3.5 Ghz at the IDF :)

      http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/cp-28.08.01- 00 0/

    3. Re:Linux World Domination Report: 8/2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      That should be:

      Step 1: 10 year linux celebration
      Step 2:
      Step 3: World Domination

      Couldn't be harder than collecting underpants.

    4. Re:Linux World Domination Report: 8/2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow does it ever look hot there! What is with all the sand? Don't you guys have grass? It looks like you guys are hanging out in the middle of Death Valley! So that's what you guys have for parks in the States? A few bushes, the scorching sun, and lots of sand! Looked like fun anyway, a few burgers and sunstroke.

  3. This looked rather informal.... by bsquizzato · · Score: 1

    The event was a great success, the park people were impressed and said that we "really had our shit together". . .

    Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me.. It looked like it was held in some baseball field with a few tents put up so the "Burgers got cooked but the chefs didn't." It seemed like it was a bunch of Linux junkies getting together and having a fun time eating and doing their own thing (and hey, what's wrong with that? :P)

    1. Re:This looked rather informal.... by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 5, Informative

      Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me...

      Damn. I'd thought I'd seen it all. You can't even run a story about a fricking BBQ on Slashdot without someone trying to one up the writers. I suppose I should chime in to run this mother into the ground.

      The park people said they "really had their shit together". No where in that comment does it say anything about how organzied the operation was. It said they "had their shit together". You inferred that this meant that it was a particularly organized event, but it didn't. It meant they "really had their shit together" just like it said.

      Having one's shit together, to me, means that someone has meat, someone has buns, there's a place for garbage, there's a method to get food, there's coolers filled with beverages, and someone seems to know what's happening. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is an efficient, organized troop of BBQ commandoes dispersing from a truck in swat-like fashion to commence operation: cook-out.

      It was a freakin' BBQ, how organized would you expect it to be?

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  4. In other news... by mcelli · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The Sharks, a little league baseball team of Portland, Oregan celebrated their tenth year of playing in the league by having a barbeque.

    Older players showed up to root on the youngsters who are now 3rd in the league. Money was also raised for the "Free Jared" cause, a former coach who was thrown in the slammer for drunk driving.

    ...Seriously what is this, I didn't know Slashdot was doing human interest stories.

    1. Re:In other news... by mcelli · · Score: 1
      Just goes to prove that you can lose weight, but ugly is forever.

      I guess "Jared"'s just lucky his heart's still pumpin blood for him.

  5. So how did this start... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ian Kluft was the SVLUG member who came up with the idea to find a date for the 10 year anniversary of linux

    Great idea, 10 years without a girlfriend, it had to stop!

  6. The next 10 years ??? by JohnHegarty · · Score: 1

    So ... where do ye all thing linux will be at year 20. As used as Windows ?? or still only used on webserver , and high level users ?

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  7. Oh shit.... by gmhowell · · Score: 2

    I was wondering why there were so many lame stories on the front page today. I just checked, and (at least on my homepage) there are no CT stories. So hemos, timothy, michael must be 'overworked' and are just randomly allowing stories.

    Now, here's the bad thing: I bet CT is somewhere helping to 'fix' the slashcode. God help us all.

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    1. Re:Oh shit.... by Pentagon13 · · Score: 1

      I think he has some other business to attend to (starting approximately 20 minutes after your post). See for yourself.

      -mike

  8. you guys have too much free time by Squeezer · · Score: 1

    Don't you have anything else you could be doing?

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  9. Weird... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The words are all English, but they don't make any sense...

  10. Death Anniversary by edox. · · Score: 1

    edox. Reports
    Microsoft Windows will celebrate its 1st Death Anniversary on October 25 2002 ----> This will lead to the birth or Linux Home Edition for apes
    ;) edox@piss.ms
    (Score:5)Sick--> Rated by backlashdot

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  11. Wow this was a big event... NOT by thx1138_az · · Score: 1

    I'm surprized only 6 people showed up. I guess everybody else was too busy trying to get linux to work on their refrigerators or coffee makers ;)

  12. Don't Forget about the T's by MadCow-ard · · Score: 1

    Buy your Free Dimitry T-Shirt at Think Geek. The EFF gets about half.

  13. Good Question... by Ryan_Terry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wish I could moderate ya up...

    I don't think linux will catch up to microsoft in use. I also don't really want that. The way I see it the only way linux will catch up is if they make themselves "dumb" enough for almost everyone to use. Unless everything is point, click, and forget most people will not use it.

    I believe the average user does not want to open a user manual, read any instructions, or have any extra steps to follow. They want to plug it in, have it install itself, configure itself and then give a pretty picture. In a perfect world this is fine, but for anyone who works with these blasted machines they realize that when you go with an out of the box configuration it may not be what you want. It may not even function. In the MS world there is always a wizard or a dilogue box to look at, but it may not be what you need. I love the freedom that an open OS provides. I love the fact that If I want to change something I can hit Google and 90% of the time I have an answer within minutes.

    I think the day that linux goes towards the microsoft dumb is good idea they willl lose their appeal. So to answer your question I don't know, but I hope to hell they haven't.

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    1. Re:Good Question... by zulux · · Score: 1

      Don't forget, Linux the Operating System is seperate than the user interface that you use with it. One could have a dumbed down UI for the typical Windows user, and still have Linux. Unlike Windows NT, where the user interface is intertwined with the kernel so completly that the two are inseperatable, Linux and Unix keey the UI at arms-length. So much so, that differing versions of Linux and Unix can share the same UI (KDE, Gnome and Bash for example.)

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    2. Re:Good Question... by Ryan_Terry · · Score: 1

      Very Good Point...

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  14. several hundred people by British · · Score: 2

    Several hundred people, you say? Why are there several photos of just a few people at a time in a huge empty field?

    And with the left over food that can fill up a truck bed, they must not have been very hungry.

    1. Re:several hundred people by cnkeller · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Why are there several photos of just a few people at a time in a huge empty field?

      I must admit, I agree with you. My girlfriend and I were there from 10:45am to about 3pm. We estimated about 100 people, possibly 200. The parking lot was about half full. That being said, there are probably a few factors: people were encouraged to take public transportation; the park was huge and they didn't keep us in cages, so people roamed about. They definetly planned on having a massive amount of people show up after the big headlines, however it seems to me that most people bloew it off. It was a good time though and I consider my donation well spent.

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  15. A "mainstream" media overview of the 10th by devphil · · Score: 2


    There's an article over on Yahoo! that gives a good summary of Linux and its position in the computer industry. Yes, it's written by Reuters for J. Random Consumer, but it's pretty accurate. It also talks about strengths and weaknesses, Linux-based companies going bust, and where Linux might find its niche.

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  16. A BBQ on Slashdot. by bsquizzato · · Score: 1

    Seeing as this was a Slashdot headline, I thought it'd be something a little bigger.

    1. Re:A BBQ on Slashdot. by GC · · Score: 2

      Seeing as this was a Slashdot headline, I thought it'd be something a little bigger.

      ditto

      Very much so... I've seen bigger parties at my local LUG.

      This was rather inconspicious to say the least!!!

  17. 10 years... its getting old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    whats the average life time for a penguim? its definetly getting FAT and OLD, lets hope it doesnt get to be an old fart.

  18. More photos - many Linux t-shirts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you go to Photo.net, there's a member folder with more photos from the Linux10 picnic, mostly of Linux t-shirts worn by attendees.

  19. Linux was not 10 on August Anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I remember using Linux in Winter 1991, like around February. That was kernel 0.11 if I recall correctly.

    I guess February isn't as good a time for celebrations as August, but come on, that's months off, folks... A lot of things happened between February 1991 and August 1991.

    Just nit picking...

  20. Linux10 by sachachua · · Score: 2
    We had a great time at our Linux10 celebration here in Manila, Philippines. Quite a few mini-talks on various topics. It was so much fun to meet other geeks, and there were plenty of newbies to brainwa... indoctrina... _help_, yeah, that's it.

    My mom even attended the StarOffice talk! Way coooool. =)