LinuxWorld Reports Continue

Readers have sent in quite a few links to stories wrapping up this year's LinuxWorld. The most interesting thing I saw was the HP MP3 stereo component which looks a lot like a tivo, but for sound. I'm not sure if they're going to get it right, but it looks close. Hopefully the code will be available. If it is, I'm buying one. Hit the link to read a bunch of other links related to the show compiled by Timothy.

Sharon Machlis writes: "The Linux operating system celebrated its 10th birthday this month, but as that milestone was lauded here this week at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, founder Linus Torvalds and other open-source gurus offered very different ideas of what will come next. In a lively panel discussion, Torvalds gathered with fellow Linux leaders before a packed house to debate the present state of the open-source movement . . . "

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Here's Rick Lehrbaum's "traditional" wrap-up of the embedded side of LinuxWorld from this week's show in San Francisco. He says the turnout overall was disappointing, but the showing for embedded was quite strong. Lots of good detail on what was there, plus some pictures too. Sounds like PDA & set-top boxes are the next big conquest for Linux. Worth a read!"

Jonny5 of LinuxLookup writes: "The third and final installment of my expo coverage has just been posted on LinuxLookup.com. Check it out here"

pnelson talks about Red hat CEO Matthew Szulik's keynote address at Linux World in SF. Szulik said "I'm here today to challenge the open source community. To ask you to join together to promote open source in our schools, and to protect open source in our government." Szulik highlighted the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project and ended with, "as we work as a community, we can fight as a community. And through the grassroots power of the Internet, together we can advance the cause...""

Comments

HP Appliance == Encrypted Hardware

[ckm]

I talked to the HP guy. What he said about the appliance was pretty worrysome, actually.

I asked specifically if the machine was hackable ala Tivo.

He said NO, but he'd like to see anyone try. Evidently, the hardware encrypts everything, and all the hardware serial numbers are tied together so that you can't replace any part of the hardware, including the hard drive without HP's permission.

It was a cool device, but, as I told him, I'm never buying one since I already built one of these (and it looks much the same...) and there's is not open.

I don't doubt that large chunks of the code will be available, but most of it is likely to be proprietary.

Chris.