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. :)

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's really just Interix 3, which is basically Cygwin (Cygwin developed with MS' help and with a pricetag of about $120).

IT PUTS A C SHELL ON MY WORKSTATION!!! WHOOO! ROOFTLES?

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[Frater 219]

From the Product Overview [microsoft.com] for Microsoft Services for Unix 3.0:

Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 also includes more than 300 UNIX utilities and tools that behave exactly as they would on UNIX systems, plus a software development kit (SDK) that supports over 1900 UNIX APIs and migration tools such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, as well as the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers.

Yes, that means that Microsoft distributes GNU software, and indeed in so doing complies with the GPL by passing along the source.

Was there, it was .... pretty ok

[guyo26]

Drove down from NH wednesday, went to the show yesterday with my brother [who lives in NY]. Not like going to trade shows back in the big boom days (read as not much free stuff), but still pretty fun.

Odd things I noticed:
although there were tons of Linux Journals, SysAdmin's and C/C++ mags, Dr. Dobbs was empty all day. Either everyone else reads it or they only sent a dozen to the show.

Saw _several_ SGI ALtix's, even got a picture of me standing next to them. Even though they've gone to the dark side [x86] they were very friendly and had a nice booth.

Ximian had the best booth by far, the whole jungle theme rocked. Unfortunately they were right next to Microsoft.

Speaking of, the were tre chic in black long sleeve shirts and jeans. I admit that I dropped my business card in the fishbowl for a chance to win a free Xbox ... now that it's been hacked to run Linux I didn't feel too much pain in my soul. My brother refused to come within 5 feet of the booth.

Sun was awesome. Got DVD's of Solaris 9 for both x86 and Sparc. They've sold out and gone x86 as well, but I still have a thing for old Sparc SBUS boxen.

The LPI test was ok. suitably hard enough.

I went prepared to be impressed by RedHat, but was sorely let down. Very corporate. Very stand-offish IMHO. Too bad, I would love to move to nice, warm, NC and get a job there.

SUSE has a great booth, with an absolutely gorgeous girl there. Best of the show, unfortunately they were also close to SCO, who had a huge booth. Even _I_ refused to get within 5 feet of the SCO booth. At least M$ has a track record, these guys ... I dunno, anyway

Not a SINGLE booth offering CD's, except for the aforementioned Sun and NetBSD.

the Icculus guy was great. .org rocked and was way better overall. Got my GNU shirt. Even applied for the Linux credit card because of the hot chicks shilling.

Wish the Debian booth had more stuff ... guess it took to long to install *grin*

Last but not least, the Linux Journal folks were really nice and went out of their way to take care of us and make us feel good.

There were definately some geeks out on Thursday, don't know about Wednesday, but I saw quite a few.

All in all a good time, hope I'll go next year. I'm still pawing through my 2 bags of goodies.

Re:Services for Unix is not Open Source

[truthsearch]

From the LinuxWorld announcement [linuxworldexpo.com] about the Open Source Product Excellence Awards:

"The Open Source Product Excellence Awards are the industry standard for innovation in Open Source technology," said Rob Scheschareg, vice president of sales, marketing and product development, IDG World Expo.

Re:SCO Involved with UnitedLinux?

[sweetooth]

SCO is one of the founding members of United Linux. If you needed a good reason to avoid United Linux I think thats it.

Of course you should take my comment with a grain of salt as I really can't stand SCO, thier business practices, or most of thier products.

Re:LinuxWorld

[NineNine]

Uh, it's called Adultdex. And yes, it is many, many times more fun than *any* computer conference.

Re:services for unix

[Anonymous Coward]

No need to turn to MS for this. You want Cygwin [cygwin.com] for this. XFree under Cygwin now supports rootless mode, making it very feasible to use native apps and X11 apps at the same time.

Works very well.

Re:Services for Unix is not Open Source

[Mathetes]

Neither are these winners:

Best Developer Tools
IBM - Websphere Studio Appl. Developer V.5

Best Data Storage Solution
IBM - Tivoli Storage Manager

Best Security Solution
Computer Associates - eTrust Antivirus

Best Productivity Application
HRsmart - Applicant Tracking

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[twaltari]

Ever heard of Cygwin [cygwin.com] ?