Friday LinuxExpo Summary

It's been quite a day folks. I decided that I will take a few minutes to give everyone a bit more details about the adventures that we're having out here. Hit the link below to read everything that I can think of that happened today that might have been interesting.

I was exhausted after the previous days ordeals, and overslept a bit, but we road in to the convention center 10ish in the shuttle bus. And who was onboard but Alan Cox. Good thing Dave spent the whole time talking about Genitalia and Nuclear weapons.

After registration we went to see Migel de Icaza do a whole deal on GNOME. For the first half of the lecture he operated without his slides, but still did a great job. He talked quite a bit about all the cool stuff that they'll be doing in the near future- a lot about Corba specifically. We're going to see a host of cool stuff from these guys in the next few months that will really make Linux rock for the newbies, without screwing those of us who like things a bit more hardcore.

Raster and Mandrake tolerated my presence for a bit; Geoff was hard at work getting config code into E14. They explained a few of the cooler/crazier features that we're gonna get in the very near future... all I can say is that we're all going to have a lot of fun.

I mentioned a few of my favorite booths earlier today in an article posted from the Email garden... I didn't have much time to really focus on all of them for very long. Actually, tomorrow there are several speakers that I want to see too, so I probably won't get to spend serious time at a lot of the booths.

Dave just wanted everyone to know that RMS looked at him weird. It made is day.

Linus' keynote was pretty cool. He handled the applause quite well all things considered *grin*. He spent most of the time talking about SMP, along with various other tidbits about the devel trees and his email load. He fielded a ton of questions on every subject from TMS to what's coming next for the kernel. to the Linux Development model. And no, he didn't tell us what Transmeta does (gggrrrr *grin*)

Next time I'll be takin' notes- he had a ton of great zingers, but I know perfectly well that the responsible news sources will take care of that for us.

I actually got to see an Itsy after the event. No idea on when we'll actually get to see a production model, but it's just so sweet guys! It played mpegs back on its little 320 pixel wide screen and runs on 2 AAA batteries. I'm in total awe.

Spent some time chatting with ESR. Gonna hear him speak tomorrow. Got to meet a host of people. It's just really cool to shake hands with all these people who email me, and post comments out here, and actually do the stuff we talk about on Slashdot each day. Lots of fun.

Jeff and Nate are brought in chicken. Now and we shall have a great feast, and I shall spend the rest of the evening getting carded at the hotel par. It sucks to look like I'm 14 *grin*.