I also had the "fortune" to see LinuxOne at LinuxWorld in NYC last week as well, and I agree with you that the only knowledge that "VP" had about his product is what the marketing people gave him in a script to recite at the expo. When questioned about the truth about the distro by Ryan Gordon of Loki Games, he didn't know what to say. He lied about one thin and another until the truth was eventually forced out of him, and even then it wasn't the whole truth. When I spoke to him friday, and asked about the usefullness of having Linux install under windows, all he could say was that it made the installation process easier than to install on a seperate partition. To put it bluntly: These people have no clue! They shouldn't be given the time of day by the Linux community, never mind our money. LinuxOne is a blemish that should be wiped out, and quickly.
All I know, Y2K wasn't a hoax in terms of computers shutting down. I've seen some personal systems just shut down during all the test I've performed while working in a repair shop. Still, they are only tests, you have to wonder what will happen when it's real, right? Well, my friend's little brother's system we kept non-Y2K-compliant to see what would happen - it kept running. All those tests the big companies published for vendors and techies to use were designed to hype the whole bug even more, and down to the consumer level, not just power plants, and banks.
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I also had the "fortune" to see LinuxOne at LinuxWorld in NYC last week as well, and I agree with you that the only knowledge that "VP" had about his product is what the marketing people gave him in a script to recite at the expo. When questioned about the truth about the distro by Ryan Gordon of Loki Games, he didn't know what to say. He lied about one thin and another until the truth was eventually forced out of him, and even then it wasn't the whole truth. When I spoke to him friday, and asked about the usefullness of having Linux install under windows, all he could say was that it made the installation process easier than to install on a seperate partition. To put it bluntly: These people have no clue! They shouldn't be given the time of day by the Linux community, never mind our money. LinuxOne is a blemish that should be wiped out, and quickly.
All I know, Y2K wasn't a hoax in terms of computers shutting down. I've seen some personal systems just shut down during all the test I've performed while working in a repair shop. Still, they are only tests, you have to wonder what will happen when it's real, right? Well, my friend's little brother's system we kept non-Y2K-compliant to see what would happen - it kept running. All those tests the big companies published for vendors and techies to use were designed to hype the whole bug even more, and down to the consumer level, not just power plants, and banks.
Lots of Hard core...Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Rage, and everything else of that type.