LWCE Reports Continue

Linux World continues, and reports from the floor continue to roll in; below are some more tidbits on what was on the floor or announced at today's show. Notably absent this year (besides a whole raft of companies, like formerly large exhibitors like Penguin Computing, Oracle, VA Software and subsidiaries like OSDN) were the sort of toys that crystallized dot-com risk-taking. On the other hand, companies like IBM, HP and Compaq seem as gung-ho as ever, with all sorts of info on how large customers will save (favorite trade-show words) Real Money with free software, and the dot-org booths where a lot of the show's spirit lives are happily sharing their projects' visions and toys.

wo1verin3 writes: "Trivia for geeks... and nerds. Or rather geeks vs nerds. Read about the contest of the people with oddly and randomly shaped heads here." This site also links to MoC chrisd's page of questions and answers.

abel wisman submitted news that GNU Bayonne and PreViking have merged into a single project, which will keep the name GNU Bayonne. Not familiar with either? Bayonne is a telephony application server, and PreViking is a telephony-switching daemon, both of which are open source. David Sugar of the Bayonne project also demonstrated an automated web-based callback system used to provide callbacks to form-based online queries. The newly combined Bayonne / PreViking teams will also be working on www.phonestreamer.com, built on top of GStreamer. The Bayonne booth at LinuxWorld offered booth visitors today free calls to anywhere in the world using these technologies.

red_gnom writes: "Linux is in the running to power the world's biggest computer, we learned this week at LinuxWorld Expo. A bid is being prepared to provide the computing power behind the US government sponsored Project Purple, which will pool a vast server farm to the three leading U.S. research labs, which is scheduled to come on stream by the end of 2004."

terrywin writes: "Apparently, the company that licensed Corel's Linux has indicated that the beta is now available. http://www.xandros.com/news.html, their home page has a link to the beta form. The last report I saw on this was back in September."

Finally, cnmill points to this story on CNET about today's announcement of version 1.1 of the Linux Standard Base. Congratulations!

Comments

Hi.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, my name is Anonymous Coward and I'm a first poster.

Re:Hi.

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Hi.

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Discuss.

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Hey

[Exmet Paff Daxx]

Link to the Slashdot booth? Wanting to see pictures of Glorious leader Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates I am! Where is the important Slashdot booth pictures! My enquiring mind knows to want!

Re:VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a shame this post will get modded down. I would consider it insightful seeing as how the poster seemed to be completely surprised as to why VA Software was a no-show.

Ahh well, your msg reached my eyes. Thank you :)

i still dont understand this:

[Anonymous Coward]

if they could blow up the whole death star why did they only blow up half of it?

it is crazy i tell you!

Robble RoBBLE

-Sf

Re:Alan Thicke. DEAD. +4 intresting

[Anonymous Coward]

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here's a story

[negativethirsty]

http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,50143,00.ht ml The Free Standards Group released two tools on Thursday intended to ensure that all Linux applications can run on any Linux Standard Base-compliant version of the open source operating system: LSB 1.1 and Li18nux 1.0.

Run, Forrest, run!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Run, Forrest, run!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Off-topic?!?! Are you nuts? This has never been more relevant to right-thinking women and men fighting U.S. cultural imperialism!

What? Linux World? Are you shitting me?

Re:Why no represent? - Karma to burn

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You are all a bunch of cunts

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:how about this.

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a rather more "intimate" picture of CmdrTaco here. Of course, that's from before he went out with JonKatz - he had to do a lot of special "tightening" exercises before Katz could even touch the sides. Nowadays, Taco can squeeze the juice out of a lemon pip with his rectum, which is enough for Katz to feel something. If Katz thinks about little boys at the same time, he can sometimes squeeze out a bit of green, moldy spunk.