On the Scene at Linux World Expo 29
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.
Proof that Linux is a market powerhouse (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Proof that Linux is a market powerhouse (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Proof that Linux is a market powerhouse (Score:2)
Re:Proof that Linux is a market powerhouse (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Proof that Linux is a market powerhouse (Score:1)
Wow, imagine... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but does it... oh never mind.
Conferences still work (Score:4, Insightful)
Odd definition of 'new' (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Odd definition of 'new' (Score:2)
What's interesting is that they were actually handing them out to media attendees at the press registration desk. If you got there early enough, they'd let you have one on loan to play with for the duration of the show.
Anyone remember the Zaurus? (Score:2)
Re:Anyone remember the Zaurus? (Score:1, Offtopic)
You know... (Score:2)
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 multitask
Re:You know... (Score:2)
The screen really is the big selling factor. I've read thousands of pages worth of e-books on mine. With its high dpi, the text quality is almost equivalent to print.
I, too, also prefer the 770's UI. KDE has never been able to win me over, and I dislike QTopia even more.
Also, because it's backed by Nokia, arguably the 770's OS is going to
Must be the new linux-based time travel machine... (Score:1)
Re:Must be the new linux-based time travel machine (Score:1)
Re:Must be the new linux-based time travel machine (Score:2)
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 migh
Linux is finally going mainstream! (Score:1)
Re:Linux is finally going mainstream! (Score:2)
If we are holding our breath for linux to go mainstream, we darn well better get some plastic faced marketing guy up there trying to preah it, not the programmer. Sad fact of life.
MS Video? (Score:2)
A Shadow of even last year's show (Score:1)