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Linuxworld Fun

Posted by michael on from the give-Cmdrtaco-a-wedgie-for-extra-karma dept.

The Linuxworld Expo is now in full swing, and there's a variety of news. The BBC has an overview. Microsoft has a booth at the Expo in the section intended for "new, up-and-coming companies". Sun is rolling out servers running Linux. And VA Software - Slashdot's owner - is moving Sourceforge.net to IBM's database software.

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  1. I'm just waiting... by arkham6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm just waiting for someone to start defacing the Microsoft booth. This will make us look REALLLY good to the corporate world.

  2. I can just see it now... by yeoua · · Score: 5, Funny

    At some point... every single linux geek in the entire place is going to collectively turn to and point at the Microsoft booth, and then in unison, laugh their asses off, when one of the machines bsod's.

  3. Yes, but why does Microsoft need a stand... by altgrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    when all the people at the show know about Microsoft software, and that's why they're running Linux?

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    Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.
    1. Re:Yes, but why does Microsoft need a stand... by rhadc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't mean to burst your bubble, but Microsoft knows everything it needs to know to "offer ways for both systems to peacefully coexist."

      On the technology front, the source for anything linux is there. But why would they need that? They have been involved with writing UNIX programs for quite a while. Its code is in SCO unixware. Hell, they wrote Xenix, their own UNIX operating system!

      Peacefully coexist!? They could start by NOT building anti-GPL verbage into their license agreements.

      Look, the bottom line is that Microsoft wants to destroy this open source community.

      rhadc

  4. Linux world and Linux land by brejc8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesnt Linux-world bring images of children going on rides with huge fluffy penguins.
    And wearing penguin ears? hmm maybe not penguin ears.

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    Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
    1. Re:Linux world and Linux land by Maran · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe there's an "educational" area where kids can watch fuzzy animatronic characters giving a glossed-over demonstration of how to recompile your kernel.

      And there's people dressed up as all the "old favourite" distros. But they've got their networking disabled, so they just move around a lot and pose, but can't say anything.

      And there's a shop selling lots of ThinkGeek gear, that's a real laugh in the park itself, but wearing it in the outside world results in people giving you strange looks.

      Maran

  5. Gotta love those final comments by MarvinMouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Tell us what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong"

    Well.. this is going to take a while.

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    ~ kjrose
  6. nice BBC article by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the linked BBC article:

    >Linux is gaining corporate fans is because it is
    >cheap, easy to maintain and much more secure than
    >Microsoft software.

    You can't buy advertising like that.

  7. What's up with this? by un4given · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From Netcraft:

    The site www.linuxworldexpo.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.

  8. Slashdot to change? Not likely by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Despite the immediate speed increase which could come from migrating to a real database which supports grown-up DB features like subselects, etc, I don't see it happening on Slashdot anytime soon.

    Not to flamebait here, but if you've gone through Slashcode source, you know that it's a pile of spaghetti. It doesn't lend itself to a redesign of the database access methods to take advantage of an industry-quality DB's featureset, at least not without redesigning much of Slashcode itself.

    The resulting weblog software could be really badass, but seeing as this site's gone since 1998 without a significant redesign (Slash 2 is Slash 1 with lipstick on), I don't see it suddenly happening now.