LinuxTag Show Report

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."

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Not a very impressive review

[Fefe]

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.

Re:Not a very impressive review

[Daengbo]

In fact, on the third page, he talks about the presentations, saying that:

Many of these talks looked interesting but unfortunately for me many of them were in German and given that my German language skills consist of "Ein Bier" they weren't of much interest after all. In addition to the main talks there were also some side events such as one on Friday which was talks and workshops devoted to Debian. I did manage to get along to a couple of the talks though:

Those talks being "Commercial Involvement in Open Software" by Ken Coar of the Apache Software Foundation / IBM and "Free Software in the Knowledge Society" by Sandro Zic of ZZ/OSS Information Networking.

PHP and Friends @ LinuxTag

[g_dancer]

Coverage of the "PHP and Friends @ LinuxTag" effort can be found here.

Soekris hardware

[Anonymous Coward]

The 486 machine mentioned in the article is a Soekris 4501

Re:Smart Tags in the article (or is it me?)

[Bo Diddly Squat]

It's OSNews. Have a look at this article: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3756

If you use any other browser than IE you'll be fine.