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LinuxWorld Expo Day 1 Showfloor Reports

Posted by timothy on from the what-goes-down dept.

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."

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  1. Mono is cool. by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Novell:
    The Novell, Ximian and SuSE booths were under the same roof at LinuxWorld. We talked with two Mono guys who showed us MonoDevelop running, and a program which is able to load the Gecko module and create a functional browser in under 35-40 lines of code.

    1. Re:Mono is cool. by pohl · · Score: 5, Interesting

      35-40 lines of code is cool, but zero lines of code is cooler. And soon you'll be able to pull a similar trick to build something like GIMP.

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    2. Re:Mono is cool. by mr_exit · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I dont know how interested you are in it but Alias's Maya (the 3d package most of the large effects houses use) not only runs under linux, it now has embedded Gecko.

      It is very usefull. I can use it to mix pages of HTML and Mayas scripting language MEL, previously making GUI's for scripts with MEL was a major pain up the ass, now you can just make a window with mel enabled links.

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  2. Apple 2, Microsoft 0 by cytoman · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wow! Two speakers from Apple are featured at this expo, and nobody from Microsoft!

    What a difference! One company has active Open Source contributing employees, and the other discourages such people!

  3. Novell just released SuSE Enterprise 9 too by (H)elix1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Novell also released SuSE Enterprise 9 today - all that good stuff in the 9.1 desktop version, with even better hardware support. Not what I would call a typical laptop distribution, but it automagically detected my wireless network card in my Thinkpad and got the video right... Sweet 2.6 kernel goodness officially blessed now that an *enterprise* distribution supports it.

    Life is good...

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  4. Re:cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    With GCC. In case it isn't clear, OS/X source code does include drivers for pentium hardware.

    Doesn't ship with Aqua though.

  5. Re:booth babes links please by cytoman · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Dude, out of the 125 speakers at this expo, *only* 9 are women!!

    I'm not in IT, but my field has a much higher representation from the fairer sex!!

    Does this ratio of 9/125 represent the actual number of female workers in the IT industry, or is it lower?

    It sure sucks to be in IT if you are a guy... but if you are a girl, you're in extreme demand and you get your pick... not that there's much to pick from there :-P.

  6. RedHat: The Nature of Choosing to Get Wierd by zapatero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At the RedHat booth they're passing out chapbooks of a sort titled "the nature of [choice]". This little inoccuous book is actually quite amusing. I think they're trying to show how clever they are or artsy? But it comes across as just idiotic. It's a cross between those old-time religious tract books popular in the 70s (perhaps an hommage to their bible-belt roots) and new-age jibberish. Here's a description:

    Page 1: "There is a choice in nature" [image of two red cicles A and B.]

    Page 2-3: "Where there is choice there is growth" [image of lots of alphabet shaded circles surrounding the two red A and B cicles

    Page 4-5: "What happens when elements are free to connect? And a simple choice becomes a range of interconnected choices?" [image: A and B circles connected with smaller D and C -- like a state graph]

    Page 6-7: "Choice is multiplied" ... etc

    Page 8-9: [In big red letters -- no images] "THIS IS THE NATURE OF CHOICE"

    It goes on for another dozen pages. Some kind of mix of Marshall McCluhan's Medium is the Massage, pop poetry, new-age religion, old-time bible belt religious tract books, and a good dose of plain old American Apple Pie B.S.

    So just what is Red Hat thinking with this stupid giveaway? I thought I'd at least get a source RPM cd, or maybe a Fedora CD, but no, this thing. Red Hat is going insane.