LinuxWorld Report, Day 2

greechneb writes "Roblimo is reporting again on LWCE's second day. Check out his reports on break dancers, hp, suse, gentoo, linux on laptops, and most important, free booze." See yesterday's story if you missed it. Some other LWCE notes: United Linux is sucking in more partners, and even Microsoft won one of the show awards. And yes, Robin is going around asking the interview questions. :)

MS wins at Linux?

[Blaine Hilton]

That must be a large typo. Did MS really win at a "linux" conference? should be: "Most damaging company"

w00t

[xao gypsie]

free booze and break dancers?!?!? i guess that beats balmer dancing around like an idiot for 5 minutes. yet more proof that linux is cooler than M$.

xao

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Stay tuned for days 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 AND 10!

All here soon!

heh

[pizza_milkshake]

I believe it was "Best Monopoly"

LinuxWorld

[LinuxCumShot]

bah -- i'm going to Porndex!

I'm there!

[Anonymous Coward]

Lap dancers and free booze? I'm there! ...Huh? Break dancers? Oh, never mind.

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[asparagus]

All true. However, I think it's in our best interests to promote this anyway.

"All Hail Microsoft, winner of the Open Source Excellence Award!"

"You guys are into open-source?"

"Um...not exac..."

"All Hail Microsoft, winner of the Open Source Excellence Award!"

"Three cheers for Open Source!"

How did he know...?

[Hieronymus Howard]

The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down on a Dance Dance Revolution device hooked to a Linux computer

How did Roblimo know that the guy had six piercings? Was he completely naked? Perhaps that should have said 'six visible piercings'.

HH

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[sulli]

Which of course leads to the best URL ever [microsoft.com].

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[Dr. Photo]

"Best reason to switch to Linux" ;-)

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean we have to call it GNU/Windows?

Re:I'm there!

[stratjakt]

Dont worry. Robin assures us the young pierced boy was the "hottest thing at the show".

Now all the ladies will show up next year.

"when hippie-hacker college students showed up at LinuxWorld like mad, and some of them ended up crashing in my room because they had no other place to sleep. "

Heh heh, the old "You can crash here, you want another beer? Why dont you change out of those wet clothes"

Wait, what do you mean, "Robin is a guy"?!

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[stratjakt]

In accordance with section 3b of this license the source code to those
utilities is available from the Interix World Wide Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu.

Something tells me think that the 'T' key was broken in redmond when they added that URL.

Look closer Robin..

[grub]

The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down

What he doesn't tell you is that it was actually Cowboy Neal. The other 9 piercings were.. hidden..

Re:well...

[Thud457]

"Q: How do you get free drinks out of a Vogosoft sales rep?"

"A: Stick your finger down his throat."

Unfortunately, this is backwards, GNU == Dentrassi

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[Suicyco]

Yeah actually thats a pretty good idea because its a total slap in the face to their anti-gpl FUD. Winning an open source award... I think I just heard ESR's heart explode...

damnit

[antistuff]

I was going to go, but the only day i could i overslept, now I hear this free booze stuff, grrrr.

Re:Microsoft win

[gklinger]

I've never met Mr. Gates personally but I don't doubt that he's a smart guy. That being said, the cynical part of me wonders if a large part of his success might be attributed to being in the right place at the right time.

If General Motors called me up and asked me to supply the motor for a new, revolutionary car they were designing and I was able to buy a suitable motor from another company for a song, I bet I'd end up as one of the wealthiest people in the world too.

Food for thought.