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A little about LinuxWorld
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mdlbearOn the whole, LinuxWorld isn't as much fun as it used to be -- now it's mostly about selling to suits. Still, the swag was good, and it was cool to see the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaoswolf enjoying herself (even if she did get bored around 2:30; I would normally have made another round). The ".org pavillion" -- the ghettoarea where they put the free booths for non-profits -- was on a separate floor, and didn't seem to be getting as much traffic as in past years.
CDs for OpenSUSE and Ubuntu were very much in evidence. Digium/Asterisk had cute little asterisk-shaped install disks for the Asterisk PBX. No surprise there. Everyone seems to be using Polycom phones, which are a bit pricy but from all reports they're worth the extra $$. I'll put one on my wish list.
Best swag was Levanta's laser/pen. Seems like maybe twice the output of my old pointer, which was admittedly a cheap piece of junk. Best demos were the NetBSD-powered toaster, a bicycle-powered Asterisk rig for third-world villages, and the group -- don't even remember who it was, now -- showing off Linux on the Linksys NSLU2. The BlackDog Pocket Server would have been very cool, but I missed it somehow. It's a USB-powered Linux box that starts out looking like a CD-ROM long enough to trick a Windows box into auto-running the Cygwin X server. We wants it, preciousssss...
I got the opportunity to gripe at Dell (for lack of Linux on their desktop and laptop lines, and limited support in general) and Adobe (for Acroread's lousy UI and the lack of Framemaker on Linux). Skipped griping at HP; did that at a couple of previous shows this year.
No links; I'm being lazy.
chaoswolf enjoying herself (even if she did get bored around 2:30; I would normally have made another round). The ".org pavillion" -- the CDs for OpenSUSE and Ubuntu were very much in evidence. Digium/Asterisk had cute little asterisk-shaped install disks for the Asterisk PBX. No surprise there. Everyone seems to be using Polycom phones, which are a bit pricy but from all reports they're worth the extra $$. I'll put one on my wish list.
Best swag was Levanta's laser/pen. Seems like maybe twice the output of my old pointer, which was admittedly a cheap piece of junk. Best demos were the NetBSD-powered toaster, a bicycle-powered Asterisk rig for third-world villages, and the group -- don't even remember who it was, now -- showing off Linux on the Linksys NSLU2. The BlackDog Pocket Server would have been very cool, but I missed it somehow. It's a USB-powered Linux box that starts out looking like a CD-ROM long enough to trick a Windows box into auto-running the Cygwin X server. We wants it, preciousssss...
I got the opportunity to gripe at Dell (for lack of Linux on their desktop and laptop lines, and limited support in general) and Adobe (for Acroread's lousy UI and the lack of Framemaker on Linux). Skipped griping at HP; did that at a couple of previous shows this year.
No links; I'm being lazy.
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Date: 2005-08-11 10:54 pm (UTC)I missed the Levanta pen pointer. I did get a nifty tie died shirt from InstallShield. Also, OpenSolaris gave out nifty WiFi finders.
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Date: 2005-08-12 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-12 06:57 am (UTC)