Review Of LinuxWorld 2004

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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they're not even co-branded

[Anonymous Coward]

"Novel: SUSE is presented as completely separate from Novel, they're not even co-branded (yet?)."

the SuSE standard edition CD set was a co-branded distro, including both Novell and SuSE software.
If you install off of the UnitedLinux CD, its UnitedLinux. If you install off of the SuSE 1 CD, its Suse.

UnitedLinux is dead, thanks to Darl.
Maybe it will be revived after SCO (CalderaSCO) is dead.

Having left the show with such a distro, I can fully state (evidence in hand) that his point is wrong.

Pd

Re:lol

[jamienk]

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

To be fair, this was developer software under development, not something for your average desktop user. Here's more info.

Re:First time @ LinuxWorld

[Devil]

We were not playing Dance Dance Revolution, we were playing PyDance, a from-scratch DDR lookalike that was written by one of the guys on our mailing list; it runs off a Linux box. It's just so well done that you thought it was regular DDR.

Re:"scalability"

[radish]

But those are all perfectly useful words. You know how people make fun of us geeks because we make up all that jargon? (WIMP, GUI, IDE, SCSI, ATAPI, RS232, ...) Well we do it because we need words to describe the things we're talking about. Business is the same. "Enterprise" means something. It means a large company. "Engineer" is a good word for what I do, seeing as I have a degree in Software Engineering from an engineering university. I'm happy to be called an engineer. "Scalable" means something which can be expanded to handle more transactions per second, or more storage, or whatever, easily. That's not a common thing - I've worked on many older (and some newer) systems which certainly are NOT scalable. So using it as a differentiating factor when trying to sell me a product is GOOD. Of course, just telling me it's scalable isn't enough, but people sell cars by saying they're "comfortable", or "safe" or "ecnomical". There's no difference. It gets me kind of mad when I hear one bunch of smart people completely dissing another bunch of smart people just because they don't understand them, or think they're "better". It just shows you've got a closed mind and a serious superiority complex. Get over it. If it wasn't for big business paying the bills, there would be no software industry, and most /. ers would be working at McDonalds.