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LinuxWorld Report, Day 2
greechneb writes "Roblimo is reporting again on LWCE's second day. Check out his reports on break dancers, hp, suse, gentoo, linux on laptops, and most important, free booze." See yesterday's story if you missed it. Some other LWCE notes: United Linux is sucking in more partners, and even Microsoft won one of the show awards. And yes, Robin is going around asking the interview questions. :)
what's MS doing at a linux event? *gasp*
That must be a large typo. Did MS really win at a "linux" conference? should be: "Most damaging company"
free booze and break dancers?!?!? i guess that beats balmer dancing around like an idiot for 5 minutes. yet more proof that linux is cooler than M$.
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Stay tuned for days 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 AND 10!
All here soon!
bah -- i'm going to Porndex!
-- OMFG = Oh My Floatse Goatse
Lap dancers and free booze? I'm there! ...Huh? Break dancers? Oh, never mind.
That may be the key to getting Linux adopted in more places.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
The article on UnitedLinux's new partners has a number of interesting tidbits. First of all, I was completly unaware that SCO was such a major contendor in the group, has anyone thought about how this fits into their supposed lawsuits against Linux vendors? If they are really intending to sue, it could be a way to harm Redhat, and the other non-UnitedLinux distributions.
As for the new partners mentioned in the article, none of them seem that major. All that UnitedLinux seems to get out of it is the ability to use a name, and all the companies (HP, Intel, IBM, and AMD) get out of it is prerelease code.
I've noticed that the turnouts having dipped a bit over the past year have now got back to a relatively healthy level.
Let's face it though, it's all still a bun fight - how much real business is done through these shows that's not prearranged?
The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down on a Dance Dance Revolution device hooked to a Linux computer
How did Roblimo know that the guy had six piercings? Was he completely naked? Perhaps that should have said 'six visible piercings'.
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As much as I hate to say it, I'd say thats fair. what were the competition? I don't know. It probably consisted of dos2unix text file converter, Samba, and maybe something else or so. WINE sure doesn't cut that mustard. so I guess I've got to say, this shows that the judges had level heads and didn't discriminate.
Regardles, Viva Linux!
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Why Microsoft was right about Linux
" Linux on Intel-based computers is now likely to become the dominant platform in corporate data centers, according to a recent report from investment bank Goldman Sachs. That puts even more pressure on Microsoft to persuade Unix users to stick with its Windows operating system on Intel systems rather than move to Linux. (That's no easy feat these days.) Indeed, if it fails to stop the groundswell, Microsoft may be forced to radically rethink its strategy as none of the company's server platform products now run on Linux. One scenario offered by analysts at First Boston has Microsoft switching gears and supporting Linux on key subsystems like Exchange and SQL Server and the .Net framework. And then there's the IBM factor to consider." Not much new there, but some details in the article ARE new and interesting.
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Microsoft - Services for Unix 3.0,
Nice getting an award for that.
Just like they had support for Novell, nice of Microsoft to include support for Novell, but wait!! after a while it was only used to upgrade Novell servers to NT servers?
OK, a serious question about Services for Unix, that got a definite "maybe" on an Interix newsgroup:
Now that Services for Unix includes the formerly separate "Interix" product (which as I understand it is a POSIX-compliant sub-system for win2k), is it possible to run X Windows and a window manager and *still* run native Win32 apps from the window manager (and have them behave reasonably)?
I was trying to get a demo of Interix to try it, but I couldn't...
I'm confused. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/howtobuy/defa ult.asp. How can a non-open source product win an open source excellence award? Some of the basic utilities are GPL. The product requires per-seat and/or per-server licensing and licenses for each person who connects. That's a proprietary license.
Developers: We can use your help.
Drove down from NH wednesday, went to the show yesterday with my brother [who lives in NY]. Not like going to trade shows back in the big boom days (read as not much free stuff), but still pretty fun.
... now that it's been hacked to run Linux I didn't feel too much pain in my soul. My brother refused to come within 5 feet of the booth.
... I dunno, anyway
.org rocked and was way better overall. Got my GNU shirt. Even applied for the Linux credit card because of the hot chicks shilling.
... guess it took to long to install *grin*
Odd things I noticed:
although there were tons of Linux Journals, SysAdmin's and C/C++ mags, Dr. Dobbs was empty all day. Either everyone else reads it or they only sent a dozen to the show.
Saw _several_ SGI ALtix's, even got a picture of me standing next to them. Even though they've gone to the dark side [x86] they were very friendly and had a nice booth.
Ximian had the best booth by far, the whole jungle theme rocked. Unfortunately they were right next to Microsoft.
Speaking of, the were tre chic in black long sleeve shirts and jeans. I admit that I dropped my business card in the fishbowl for a chance to win a free Xbox
Sun was awesome. Got DVD's of Solaris 9 for both x86 and Sparc. They've sold out and gone x86 as well, but I still have a thing for old Sparc SBUS boxen.
The LPI test was ok. suitably hard enough.
I went prepared to be impressed by RedHat, but was sorely let down. Very corporate. Very stand-offish IMHO. Too bad, I would love to move to nice, warm, NC and get a job there.
SUSE has a great booth, with an absolutely gorgeous girl there. Best of the show, unfortunately they were also close to SCO, who had a huge booth. Even _I_ refused to get within 5 feet of the SCO booth. At least M$ has a track record, these guys
Not a SINGLE booth offering CD's, except for the aforementioned Sun and NetBSD.
the Icculus guy was great.
Wish the Debian booth had more stuff
Last but not least, the Linux Journal folks were really nice and went out of their way to take care of us and make us feel good.
There were definately some geeks out on Thursday, don't know about Wednesday, but I saw quite a few.
All in all a good time, hope I'll go next year. I'm still pawing through my 2 bags of goodies.
The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down
What he doesn't tell you is that it was actually Cowboy Neal. The other 9 piercings were.. hidden..
Trolling is a art,
"A: Stick your finger down his throat."
Unfortunately, this is backwards, GNU == Dentrassi
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Weren't XFree supposed to release V4.3 of XFree86 at this show?
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I've read a good explanation for what they are doing. Gates is no dummy. In fact, he's one of the brightest businessmen around. He has first hand experience how rapidly technology can change, and is very aware that almost of Microsoft is built on technology that didn't even exist 10 years before Microsoft started.
He is quite aware that things will continue to change, and everything that is important to Microsoft now might be just a small technology niche in ten years, and he has no intention of letting Microsoft go the way of, say, Data General or Digital. That's why Microsoft is trying to get involved in pretty much everything they can involving computers--cell phones, game consoles, PDAs, entertainment centers, servers, embedded systems, online services, streaming media. The only way to be sure that they remain successful is to try to get in early in everything.
In other words, Microsoft intends to be the next Microsoft.
>> Please, HP people, can we have Linux laptops? In case HP people dont know: HP Pavillion ze4200 is what I could call a "Linux-ready" laptop (I intionally put it in qoutes). One thing though: so far only Mandrake 9.0 works perfectly. Theonly thingI havent been able to check so far is the modem (though I doubt it will work)
I was going to go, but the only day i could i overslept, now I hear this free booze stuff, grrrr.
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If General Motors called me up and asked me to supply the motor for a new, revolutionary car they were designing and I was able to buy a suitable motor from another company for a song, I bet I'd end up as one of the wealthiest people in the world too.
Food for thought.