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BSDTag writes "LinuxTag, Europe's largest Linux show was held in July in Karlsruhe Kongresszentrum, Germany. Nicholas Blachford was there for 3 of those days and he wrote about his experience on OSNews, and provided 6 pages of pictures of the event."
So he took a walk around the exhibition area and saw lots of companies. Yes, the exhibition area was surprisingly well populated, but the real meat of the event were the talks (ok, well, maybe I'm biased here because I held one of them).
By the way, there was at least one other party, from the local Linux User Group, on the second day. I couldn't attend because I was too sleepy.
The major highlight in my eyes were the GNOME and KDE talks. The GNOME talk was absolutely hilarious, mostly because the demonstrations crashed all the time. There were at least four spontaneously crashing applications in the presentation, the presenter did not even start two things he wanted to show because "they are broken right now" and the multimedia streaming framework "does not compile right now in CVS". So if you ever tried to compile GNOME from the sources: it's not your fault. In comparison, KDE looked like a finished and polished product, although the guy was also using the CVS version and had one problem where one application misbehaved so he restarted it. Anyway, this is a breeze of fresh air in the usual climate of corporate demos where they only show the stuff they know to work reliably. The Linux and Open Source people just proved that they don't do this to bullshit people, they do it for the fun of it!
By the way: the KDE and GNOME guys used the event to drink some beer together, and they are planning a soccer game (the Debian guys want to be the third team so it can be a tournament). All the talk about animosities is apparently completely unfounded.
BTW: the entrance fee to LinuxTag was free if you placed a reservation on their web page, and 10 Euros otherwise. So everyone and their kid brother were there, all the talks were packed with people. It was quite an impressive sight. I did the scalable network programming talk, which is a topic that normally wouldn't attract a large audience, and even that talk had over 200 attendees. I found the whole athmosphere there very nice and look forward to the next LinuxTag.
Stop stealing SCO code, you fat, smelly, greasy Linux hippies! There's no WAY you could write something as decent as SCO Unix without stealing from us. ...sincerely, SCO Management
Linux will never have widespread use on the desktop as long as GNOME, KDE, and XFree86 are standard. If the goal of Linux on the desktop is to offer choices to the geeks who can actually make it work, then the they're fine. But if the goal is to get as many people using it as possible, development for all three of those needs to end in favor of one standard that looks good, is easy to use, is fast, and just works. XFree86 is already a nightmare, and sticking more bugs and CPU cycles on top of it in the form of KDE and GNOME just makes matters worse.
Yeah, right. As if that's what he was looking at. Sure, anything you say.
that this guys chief writing influences seem to be Dr. Seuss books? Not to mention the really bad puns. Nice coverage of the show in my eyes though, as I've never been to any type of tech convention and it was cool to see what happens when nerds congregate.
Coverage of the "PHP and Friends @ LinuxTag" effort can be found here.
The SCO stall was packed full I guess? :-)
From the article:
MySQL had a small stand where they no doubt people queried them using a structured language.
Oh, and 'm not a native English speaker but isn't this bad english?
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I want one of those MP3 servers. :-)
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
So say someone was gonna goto next years event, does anyone who was there this year have any good tips? What to expect, where to stay, drink, etc...
Cross posting Xtrem? http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=4185
Das blinkenleits und zee Krauten! Ya! Ya!
Yes, but it's in German: http://www.fefe.de/linuxtag2003/
The 486 machine mentioned in the article is a Soekris 4501
I've been reading it in IE 6 and it shows a lot of smart tags in the article (my favorite one is a tag placed on every 'Linux' or 'open source' occurence prompting for free trial of VS.NET 2003). Is it me (XP+IE) or is it OSNews?
Three years ago I discovered that our local charity had just spent badly needed funding on installing Novell on the server (actually a good choice in the circumstances) and NT4 on all their workstations. They felt they had no choice because all their workers needed access to the finance system. Although they got education discount for Windows, it was still a significant slice of budget.
It's now 3 years later. Is it possible to run mainstream integrated accounts suites like Peachtree, Sage or MYOB on Linux? Because, if so, that could be the killer app for small charities and churches. OO/SO is now beginning to get really good application integration (I really think I can recommend SO6.1 to businesses when it's released).
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Did they break out into German Techno dancing like on Sprockets ??
How can he be surprised about the girls ?
:)
There are plenty of girls and women in Europe, who are not kept locked away in the bedroom and kitchen. No matter what you do, there are always some, no matter if it is skydiving, diving, or computer parties (ok, computer parties might have the lowest amount of women).
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Do the coordinators yell, "Ollie-ollie-outs-n-free!"?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
... not since I bought a math coprocessor for my 386sx. Now my machine really flys.