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LinuxWorld Expo Day 1 Showfloor Reports
Gentu writes "Here are the first reports from the first day of LinuxWorldExpo's showfloor: NewsForge discusses a few interesting 'off-the-record' tidbits among the announced news, while OSNews offers a report, too, accompanied by a number of pictures from the Expo."
On-going report with pictures over at LinuxDevices:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4827920836.htm
Lots of cool gagets and other "embedded" stuff running Linux! Now, where did I leave the darn Pitch Fork???
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My life in the land of the rising sun.
I spent 3 years teaching course all over the states. These ranged from perl/C/C++/Java to Kernel Hacking. These were taught at various places such as IBM, HP, Boeing, USWest, MCI, AT&T, Lucent/Avaya, sprint, etc. At the entry level type classes, it was maybe 1/4 to 1/3 women. But when you get to the upper end of classes, it was at best 1/10 women. Sad set of numbers. On the plus side, almost all of the women in the upper classes were damn smart and worth spending extra time to help. You knew that they would actually use the education.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
This LinuxWorld was better than last year's, or at least the three bags of free swag I got this year represents a larger bounty!
If the Novell, SuSE, Ximian area were any bigger, they'd have to call it NovellWorld, which it just may be called by next year. If anyone was asleep while Novell was making these acquisitions, wake up, 'cause Novell is deadly serious about being the biggest baddest Linux company there is (and from their presentations they believe they already are.)
Novell certainly gave out the best stuff. I got 2 tickets to a SF Giants game for Wed. night, 2 red Novell baseball jerseys, 1 Novell white t-shirt and a SuSE/Novell stuffed Gecko. Others got the Sharp Zaurus, Apple iPod, and $100 Amazon gift certificates.
Also Novell was showcasing what they called the Novell Linux Desktop. I asked a lot of employees about this. They've taken the best of SuSE, the best of Ximian, combined Gnome and KDE and made a really slick looking desktop (which I think they will target at business users). But, it's so new they don't even know what they want to do with it yet.
They had it running on tons of computers and had attendees go through forwarding an e-mail with Evolution and opening a Word document with OpenOffice.org Writer to show off how easy using Linux can be. I actually heard people next to me trying it out saying things like, "If a secretary sits down and it isn't Windows, there will be an initial fear, but this is not really that different, and is really easy to use. I think most people would pick this up in no time..." Duh. Welcome to 2001.
Anyway, I thought this was Novell's LinuxWorld. They have a phalanx of people in brown shirts with red N's on 'em there. It will be interesting if by this time next year their tent is even bigger and merged with IBM's or Sun's. Or even more interesting, if their court cases work out such that they definitively show that they still own UNIX, they'll be one company that owns Netware, UNIX, and SuSE Linux. Biggest Baddest indeed.
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