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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.

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  1. 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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  2. 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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