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LinuxTag Show Report

Posted by michael on from the mmmm-linux dept.

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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  1. Re:Linux on the desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a quick tour of KDE's control panel will make short work of any allegations that it "looks like windows". Mine looks similar to a heavily-mutilated-by-commodities-AmigaOS, if that means anything to you. And I have text turned on underneath the icons for all toolbars - I HATE windows' icons-only approach.

    Even out of box, KDE doesn't look or feel much like windows any more an any distro except RHAT's perverted-kde. Mandrake looks especially elegant. But that's because regardless of any other perceived faults, no one denies that the french have style.

  2. Smart Tags in the article (or is it me?) by abelikoff · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

  3. Interesting reference to the churches by panurge · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Churches need infrastructure and that infrastructure could well be Linux.

    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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    Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
  4. The girls by terminal.dk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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).

    Teach american women to be more independent :)