Impressions From LinuxTag 44
Winfried Trümper writes: "I have published a page with public
pictures
from the LinuxTag in Stuttgart. Although
"only" 90 pictures from all sort of developers were selected, the
page is still huge. " It's a good summary page -- check it out.
Pins? (Score:1)
Re:More Images + KDE-Booth (Score:2)
... isn't that KDE developer actually a slightly shrunken Frasier from TV?
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
Re:It's official, Hemos hates us. (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted (Score:1)
Re:It's official, Hemos hates us. (Score:1)
Re:just wondering ... (Score:1)
Of course... (Score:3)
These should be submitted to the Linux Image Montage Project [remotepoint.com]!
-APRe:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
It's official - there is no god. Next thing you know, someone will release a version of INTERCAL that produces Java bytecode.
If you really want to deal with COBOL on Linux, I suggest the 'rm' utility.
--Shoeboy
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:1)
Perhaps I seemed to whine in my previous post, but at least I had the gumption to sign my name to it.
"Is that so?...YOU BETCHA!"
Good article - is it? (Score:1)
Nice troll (Score:3)
Nice troll. Can I please translate the content for you? "Linux is just the flavor-of-the-day, soon, the small core of fanatics that actually use Linux will will switch to BSD or BEOS and Linux will disappear as a threat to Microsoft". "Oh, and by the way, can you guess who I work for".
OK, so *I* am one of those "uncool" people who jumped in in the last year. Does the fact that I just landed a job with one of the coolest companies in Europe, doing nothing but Linux, getting paid to do the things that I used to do for free mean anything? Ahh... I think it's kinda cool, don't you?
How about the concept of pinning those cute penguin pins onto the shirts of young pretty girls who know nothing about Linux, and thereby get drafted to the cause. You should see what happens after a few guys explain the meaning of the penguin to the girl, ok, she's going to be a self-appointed expert soon, and there is just no other advertising space that can compete. (By the way, any lonely geeks out there, this *works* - take note.)
The bottom line: You ain't seen nothing yet. This year is only the dawn of cool.
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Linuxtag was a complete success (Score:4)
I don't know exactly what the attendance figures were, but they were expecting 20,000 and it looked to me like they beat that. This year's show was three times the size of last year's, and that has happened every year for the last 4 years. It's a safe bet that next year's show will be 3 times the size again.
The last day included a job fair - graduating students getting jobs in Linux companies. Cool.
There was a continuous multiplayer drop-in game of Parsec going on about 6 computers, totally cool. Looks like Wing Commander, except the graphics are better. And no crashes at all, according to the Worldforge guy on the other side of the room.
I got a cute sqeeking toy penguin from HP for my wife, and lots of cute penguin pins. (See previous comment on what the penguin pins are good for;-) And, oh yes, a job. Hacking Linux fulltime.
I really can't say enough good things about Linuxtag.
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Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
Dear Mister Troll: It's not PRIME but PR1ME.
Please look at this [ultranet.com] picture.
Re:Linuxtag was a complete success (Score:1)
Heh.
bugs=bucks
*** Surfsup resolves *once again* never to post without previewing
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Re:It's official, Hemos hates us. (Score:2)
I was wondering why I couldn't access the box this morning - it acts as the primary server for GnuPG and I released 1.0.2 yesterday including a Windoze version. So Winni mounted a nice DOS against an encryption software :-). You owe me a beer (but no Kölsch), Winni. Werner
Re:More Images + KDE-Booth (Score:2)
I always thought that... (Score:3)
NT tag was much more fun to play.
...or am I confusing that with freeze tag?...
Hm...
Geez Louise (Score:1)
Looking forward to Mac OS X. (Score:2)
Mac OS X will (hopefully) fulfill my needs of a very media friendly OS with support from a company with balls and muscle enough to support it (unlike Be, which I was so damned close to switching to for good).
Your post touched a chord here, anyway. I'll be looking forward to Mac OS X as my front-end on Apple's sexy hardware, and continue putting Linux to work on hardcore backend boxes...
Linux pins on young pretty women (Score:2)
You know, this might actually work. Whenever girls have looked at one of my Linux mascot dolls or the picture of the Linux Logo on my credit card [linuxfund.org], the reaction is almost universally that the penguin is very cute. I can definitely see young pretty women wanting to wear a Linux penguin pin.
Speaking of which, where can one get Tux pins?
- Sam
So what exactly is your point then? (Score:2)
Uwe Wolfgang Radu
Linux as embedded OS not that hot! (Score:1)
I'm not saying Linux doesn't have the capabilities, only that its bang-per-byte isn't that great. Its main attraction is the price, but other than that there are many (currently) superior alternatives.
What really needs to be done is to pare down the kernel to 250KB or less and still include all the useful stuff like networking and a FS in there. Once you can run it on a typical 640k 386 and still have room for your embedded app(s), then you're talking. After that, prune away at the required files until the whole things needs WAY less than 20M--more like 1M or so.
There are OSs out there today that make do with far less hardware than Linux--I believe EPOC is amongst them, so is QNX, PalmOS, etc. Personally I don't like PharLap which we are using, so I'd be eager to switch anyway. But these are the OSs embedded Linux would be competing with. And simply saying "hey, it takes more hardware, but it's free" doesn't cut the mustard.
Uwe Wolfgang Radu
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
You're in luck - there's a link on the page I cited that indicates that "RM COBOL" [liant.com] is, in fact, supported on Linux.
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:1)
Sheesh, quit being so pragmatic. If everyone picked their OS based on technical merits, linux wouldn't exist as it does today. Remember what linux was like back 5 or 6 years ago? When it took a good week to get the whole thing downloaded from a 14.4 modem (it'd always disconnect as soon as I went to bed) and actually installed? When most of your hardware wasn't supported? But when you actually got it to work it was cool. And thats why I did it, and why a whole lot of other people did to, which is why they contributed to and supported their favorite little underdog OS and made it into what it is today.
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:1)
rm
(instead of)
RM/COBOL
Re:Linuxtag was a complete success (Score:1)
I thought that meant that they had to turn in a copy of Windows to get in :-}
All I want to know is... (Score:1)
Fawking Trolls! [slashdot.org]
Re:Kelsey Grammer (Score:2)
I have to say, this is the biggest laugh Slashdot has given me in years!
(sad eh?)
:-)
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
It's official, Hemos hates us. (Score:5)
The only possible explanation is that Hemos is cackling with diabolical laughter and telling his new bride "Look honey, I just threw 400,000 DSL connected geeks at a box that's connected to the net with tin cans and string." I bet she gets off on that. I would.
--Shoeboy
Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
Quite frankly, it's not all that new and exciting anymore; everyone's dragging it into mediocrity, now I find myself yearning for a new "Unsung Hero" OS.
Probably just locked myself into a never-ending quest to find the perfect OS. I have no idea what to do once I find it but, hey....
Tag Linux? (Score:1)
"Quick - tag me!"
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:3)
Re:Tag Linux? (Score:1)
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"You take a distribution! Rename! Stamp CD's! IPO!"
- CmdrTaco, Geeks in Space, Episode 2 from 6:18 to 6:23.
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:3)
I find myself yearning for a new "Unsung Hero" OS.
I totally groove with this. As soon as you find a new OS that's worthy, it'll just become mainstream like Linux is. Anything cool eventually gets picked up by the uncool and then urban hipsters like you and me find the whole scene ruined. Remember when we shopped thrift stores back in 96 for old atari shirts and crap? Now everyone is doing it. It's SOOOOOO cliche and bourgeois. What we need to do is find a trend they won't imitate and coopt. I say we resurect COBOL on the PRIME MiniComputer. That'll rock. We can say things to the Linux guys like 'PrimeOS never needs to worry about new hardware compatibility' and 'Linux won't succeed in the market due to all you "C" hackers refusing to support the COmmon Business Oriented Language.'
--Shoeboy
More Images + KDE-Booth (Score:3)
There are much more images from LinuxTag here [ndh.net].
And it's less biased -- I miss Photos from the huge KDE Booth on LinuxTag e.g. where they showed the incredible KDE2. Have a look here:
Kalle Dalheimer [ndh.net]
Hans Meine [ndh.net] showing aRts, the new multmedia-framework in KDE2.
Konqi + KDE-Developer [ndh.net]
KDE-Developers [ndh.net](there seemed to be much more of them there)
Konqi [ndh.net] And someone (Takkat?) sleeping ...
Thanks to those students who organized LinuxTag and made it a complete success. In opposition to other fairs LinuxTag is a completely non-commercial event where booths are being donated including equipment to non-profit-projects. Also you can visit it for free. And the whole event is being organized by people in their sparetime just in true opensource-spirit.
Re:Slashdotted (Score:1)
Re:It's official, Hemos hates us. (Score:1)
Performance here in the UK sucks badly at the moment.
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
Heh. There's a page on IBM developerWorks about Cobol and open source [ibm.com], with links to various open-source Cobol compilers under development, and to vendors of Cobol implementations for Linux, including CobolScript which is "a COBOL based interpreter that allows Web development" and NetCobol which "is a COBOL compiler that generates Java bytecode-based applications/applets from existing COBOL programs".
Underdog yes; new, whaddya mean? (Score:1)
Re:Kinda Wondering.... (Score:2)
I would be hard pressed to find a worse reason to select an OS to use for any purpose.
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Re:There isn't a 'c' in 'published' ... (Score:1)
Ooops, wrong topic! (Score:2)
Uwe Wolfgang Radu
just wondering ... (Score:1)
Re:Tag Linux? (Score:1)