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On the Scene at Linux World Expo
lisah writes "Though the exhibit floor at Linux World Expo in San Francisco has only just opened, conference attendees are already on the ground in full force. NewsForge's Robin 'Roblimo' Miller caught up with O'Reilly's Media editor Andy Oram, Novell's marketing honcho Justin Steinman, and Steven J. Vaughan Nichols of Ziff Davis Internet, among others, to get their take on what they hope to gain from this year's Expo. He also gives readers a peek at the new Linux-powered Nokia 770 Internet Tablet." Newsforge and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
Yes, but does it... oh never mind.
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It is nice to see that LinuxWorld seems to be thriving. Although I am sure that we will get daily /. stories about the conference, the reletively slow first day still shows promise. Nokia's presence is a big boost, and their latest product looks like it is positioned to sell. Linux is big in the embedded devices market and is capeable on the desktop, so it seems natural to me that it should have a strong presence in the less-than-laptop market. This trend will grow much larger after Palm's software division releases its new version of the Palm OS
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
I disagree with you logic, but Linux definitely has a large consumer base. The debate over desktop Linux has overshadowed the adoption of Linux in servers and embedded devices. For the latter two applications, there is no doubt that it is mainstream. Linux on the desktop has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 5 years and it is gaining in popularity every day.
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
I have had mine for almost a year now. Some new firmware was released a month or so ago, but the device is certainly not new.
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My logic was based on cause and effect and efficient market theory. Ok, all I mean is that to organize something like Comdex or EEE you need investment from the part of organizers, who in turn are only willing to shell out money if they have some assurance of getting returns. Its like advertising. Why will you organize Woodstock III if you knew only loonies and peddlers selling $10 mineral water bottles will show up?
I have one, and its a technical workhorse. From VoIP to web servers, anything can be made to run on this thing!
...but considering the exhibit floor doesn't open until 10am pacific time, I am surprised there are so many attendees there already. Since I am supposed to be there to man my company's booth, I hope the time machine is open-source and I can download a copy.
It's good to see that Linux finaly is going mainstream an no longer is a hidout for geeks. The picture of Robin Miller clearly proves this!
An obviously biased statement with a link to some pics posted on Flicr. Yeah, that'll convince me.
Look, I too own a Zaurus, but have been looking for reasons as to why I should get a Nokia. The unit really does look nice, but why on earth would I go out and buy a Nokia if it can't do more than what my Zaurus does? Point out some of the positive things.
How's the battery life (that's one of the bad things I've actually heard about the Nokia)? How's multitasking? How's the selection of applications available?
All these things, if positive of course, would go a long way to promoting the device, instead of a bunch of pictures and a one line comment that really doesn't mean anything.
And don't underestimate the feelings of utter freedom and ecstasy that come with shitting in a cornfield.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
It's a clone of Apple's Time Machine.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Anyone else find it ironic that /. coverage of a LINUX conference is posted in an MS video format? Sheesh... Now I gotta go get flip4mac installed......
Think outside the... Hey, where'd the friggin' box go?
Somebody who works at LinuxWorld told me that this conference is somewhat unique in that fully half of the attendees show up early, to attend the conference/tutorial sessions that kick off a day before the floor opens.
Also, the conference floor might open at 10am but Lawrence Lessig's keynote was at 9am.
Breakfast served all day!
I walked the floor for around 3+ hours today and will probably go back tomorrow for a little while (I'm a glutton for punishment)...comments: 1) At least 70% focused on hardware, when I first started attending this WAS a software show 2) At least 30% of the smaller (both SW / HW) vendors at last year's show didn't "show" up this year -- and the replacement newbie's are probably one-timers at their first show 3) Companies that had had full booths in the past seem to have down-sized to "partner stations" at the HP, IBM, Dell, Novell (Suse Linux), etc. pavilions 4)Only 1 pure-play security vendor, the Romanian company BitDefender -- last year there were at least 5 5) NO!!! MS booth / pavilion as there was last year 6) It was sort of interesting, actually, to note who was not there in full-booth (or in some cases even at "partner stations"): Sun (Schwartz gave the keynote 3 years ago and Sun has been a presence for quite a while), Sybase, Engenera (high-performance blade arrays), and most surprisingly RedHat (sort of got the feeling from the RH guy in the Dell pavilion [the only RH presence I found] that since they own such a large market share they can be arrogant and not publicly interact with their customers) 7) There were pennants up on the dates for next year's show but from what I heard about the Spring Boston show and observed today this franchise may not make it that far.....
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