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LinuxWorld Highlights

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the on-the-front-lines dept.

Jan Stafford writes "Bernard Golden over at SearchEnterpriseLinux was wowed by the many hardware and software products on display at LinuxWorld. Among the highlights include Blackdog, a complete Linux server the size of a deck of playing cards and Astaro a bundled security suite designed for corporations. He also outlines the good, bad and funny trends of the convention."

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  1. Toaster! by PakProtector · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the toaster powered by netBSD that was shown at LinuxWorld?

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  2. Male Booth Dolly by colmore · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the article:

    "I knew that vendors hired attractive women to staff their booths, hoping to attract the mostly-male attendees of technical conferences, but I had no idea that the subterfuge extended to the other half of the species. Live and learn!"

    Or maybe they're just extending to the other *tenth* of the species, if you catch my drift.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say.

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  3. blackdog... I want one! by tulimulta · · Score: 5, Informative

    That Blackdog is amazing for just $200. I want one!

  4. THIS lwce was the geeks vs suits tipping point? by anuj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    seems like the last one he was at was '00 in san jose. now THAT was a party. ever since has been drab, and this one was just about as average as the rest of the west coast/bay area ones since.

    although, yeah, .org pavilion being relocated to the mezzanine was lame - but it was still good to be able to walk up to the folks at gentoo, kde, moz and eff and give them the props they deserved.

    ~A

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  5. Re:Info by SimilarityEngine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looking at the website, I don't think it's really intended to be used as a server - at least not primarily. It is, however, an amazingly cool little portable PC - powered over another PC's USB, steals the host's input/output devices - how cool is that! I'm quite tempted to buy one myself. Just a pity that it only has 64Mb onboard RAM....

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  6. Double Your Pleasure by cmplus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seems like I've seen a similiar specification for the Blackdog somewhere before.

    What I don't understand is why the MMC card on these devices is limited to 512mb. Sandisk and others already offer 1, 2, and 4GB high-speed CF cards. Is it an issue of pre-formatting, the software driver, or something else I'm missing? It would be kind of cool to have an external RAID device consisting of multiple CF cards plugged into a "CF bus."