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Review Of LinuxWorld 2004

Posted by timothy on from the Y2***-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux dept.

jamienk writes "I went to the LinuxWorld convention at the Javits Center in NYC again this year. This is where the post-post-industrial corporate complex flexes for us consumers and infrastructure staff to see. And the smell of Corps was thick in the air. So was the nerdy, curious, driven, hacker odor. Guess which vibe won?"

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  1. comments on the crowd by theMerovingian · · Score: 3, Funny


    from article:
    They look like Nerds, but somehow lack the fear, the self-consciousness, and the "loser" qualities so often attributed to their kind.

    I'm not sure if that's a compliment, or not!

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  2. What does linux world have in common by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A guy in the FSF booth was saying ->What does Linux World have in common with a computer chip? -- each year it gets smaller!

  3. Corps? by zonix · · Score: 4, Funny
    And the smell of Corps was thick in the air.

    Am I the only one who read that as corpses at first? :-)

    z
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    1. Re:Corps? by Plug · · Score: 2, Funny

      Am I the only one, when given the link to the winning vibe, worried it might be something to do with this guy? :-)

  4. Wasn't SCO there? by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure they would have loved the chance to pick a up lot of potential customers for their code licencing initiative. After all, surely everyone there was using their code.

  5. lol by theNote · · Score: 4, Funny


    The KDE people really impressed me. At one point one of them wanted to show me how you can write simple javascripts to create full KDE apps or dock applets. He didn't have it installed though, so he decided to download it from the net; there was a compatibility problem with the binary, so he pulled the code from CVS; he didn't want to wait for a long compile, so he decided to use the other processors on the LAN, but to do that he needed icecream; he pulled that from CVS... All this was done at a fast and furious pace, he had 10 or 12 shells running at the same time, was bouncing between them; other developers stuck their heads in: "which shell is patching...?" Development in action. It was cool.

    Just when I was ready to try linux again, I read this paragraph and remembered why I got rid of it last time.

  6. Re:great swag though by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed. Here in the upstate NY/southern Vermont border region we have sensitivity to these matters and refer to them with respect as "Bovine-American Hominid Production Partners."

    KFG

  7. Ulterior motives? by t0ny · · Score: 2, Funny
    but the best thing by far was making connections with like-minded geeks

    That, and hooking up with all the hot Linux groupies? Um, no.

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  8. "from the Y2***-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux dept" by LeninZhiv · · Score: 2, Funny

    timothy, man, come on! /. editors need to have basic wildcard skills:

    2* already means "any year starting with 2"; for single-digit substitution use ?:
    2??? is the year of desktop linux.

    man bash | grep -A32 "Any character"

    And yes, desktop GNU/Linux is just around the corner :-)