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Wrap-up On The Ottawa Linux Symposium

Posted by Hemos on from the great-conference dept.

Joe Barr writes "David Graham wraps up his coverage of the Ottawa Linux Symposium with this report on Day 4, including the closing keynote address by Andrew Morton. If you've been turned off by the commercialism of LWCE the past couple of years, you might find the OLS to be breath of fresh air. Our fearless reporter has provided detailed, behind-the-headlines coverage each day of the event."

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  1. Ottawa Linux Symposium by static0verdrive · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's too bad the symposium is so expensive; they have often had very interesting people and interesting seminars.

    The funny part is half the people who do go are your average slashdot reader-types from outside Canada, so when the daily drinking begins, it only takes two hours for their frail geek-bodies to become overboard drunk! Luckily our Ottawa LUG practices year-round with a meet at the bar after each LUG meeting...

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  2. LSB by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Linux Standard Base is something mentioned in the speech, and it does seem to be something that could help remedy the current spaghetti that is the file structure. With the ever-changing library names, the symlinks start to pile up.

    Probably not as related, but have you ever taken a look at the /dev directory? Each distro seems to have their own way of organizing devices. Of course, instead of making things neater, you end up with the new way of organizing it plus symlinks to all the old ones as well.

    Browsing files seems to be what makes Linux difficult for me. Cleaning things up ought to make things much easier (even compared to Windows)

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  3. I was disappointed by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The symposium just wasn't as good as last year.

    The schedule came out late - by the time I received it, I'd already booked my travel arrangements - and ended up missing the keynote and some sessions that I would have liked to go to.

    The only sponsored session was snacks/drinks... and listening to an author talk about his (non-technical) books for what seemed like an eternity.

    The wireless network - while steady and up this year - had a crap-ass interenet connection that was less stable than a fainting goat.

    All in all - the conference seemed haphazardly organized and last minute.

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