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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."
pretty please with sugar on top.
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.
IBM did not have to do this, and the product still has lots of value.
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Was SCO invited?
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???
What a difference! One company has active Open Source contributing employees, and the other discourages such people!
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...
+++ UGUCAUCGUAUUUCU
here's the link to the source
That is interesting that you have mentioned booths. Every time I visit a computer expo, I have a strong urge to switch from Linux to BSD. It is a very strange feeling which I absolutely cannot explain. I never have this feeling in my basement, though, so when I'm back in front of my computer, I usually forget about it and keep using Debian, but during every expo that urge comes back and keeps getting stronger and stronger. It is nearly irresistible, yet completely subconscious, beyond any reason and understanding. It would almost be mystical, if only my thoughts were pure and innocent... Could someone please explain it to me? Could that be Satan's temptations? With all of those daemons around, I'm not sure...
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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This may be just a tad offtopic (It's mention in one of the links!) but Lindows has users always logged in as root? ...Are they CRAZY?
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My life in the land of the rising sun.
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.
Like Digital Freedoms? Then donate to EFF before they're gone.
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:
... etc
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"
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.