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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. Quote about a gift horse and inspection... by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 4, Insightful
    comes to mind when I read this quote from the newsforge article...

    IBM says it is making the donation to help spur Java database development that will eventually lead more users back to the WebSphere server line. On the other hand, Cloudscape was never a big seller in the enterprise market, and IBM was faced with either releasing it to the open source community or possibly dropping it entirely from its catalog.

    IBM did not have to do this, and the product still has lots of value.

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  2. Invitations by michaelzhao · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was SCO invited?

  3. For the Embedded Penguins!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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???

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.