LinuxWorld Show Favorites 130
Well, they've given out the award for show favorites here at LWCE. Click below to check out who won. One hint-some yahoos with a web site picked up an award.
Annnnddd the winners are....
Software: Red Hat 5.2
System: S.u.S.E (pronouce like the composer) Linux 6.0
Utilites: BRU/Enhanced Software Technologies
Office Automation/Personal Productivity: Applix/Applix Office
Web: geez...ok. Slashdotorg Now if only they'd given us money *grin*
MultiMedia: Loki Multimedia / Civilization
Science/Engineering: VA Research
Computers: VA Research
Peripherals: Adaptec
Projects and Organizations: O'Reilly & Associates
Killer App Award: Corel Software
Significant Achievement Award: LinuxCare
Congrats Rob & Co.. (Score:1)
Keep up the good work, the vast majority of the linux community appreciates what you do!
Congrats (Score:1)
Congrats guys! If it weren't for you, I might get some work done.:)
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Your Favorite OS Sucks.
^D
pronunciation of S.u.S.E. (Score:1)
Zis is rreally wunderfull! (Score:1)
Konkratulations frrom a rregoular rreader in Germany. Jawohl, you have earned it; stay nerdish and stay independent, and I'd be happy to recommend your site to all my friends
Besides, did you TOO receive high money offers for your domain/site? If not, what about a nice patent on the "slashdot effect"?
At first I thought Yahoo had won... (Score:1)
Why didn't Beowulf win anything?
Congrats to Yahoo!^H^H^H^H^H^Hyouse guys.
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Cease and Desisit from using 'Yahoo' (Score:1)
Funny how that's spilled into a popular Web service, isn't it?
Kyt - congrats, boys, I'm proud of you. Cookies all 'round.
awwwwwright! (Score:1)
what composer is that? (Score:1)
--Phil (It wasn't for nothing that I played in marching bands for severl years.)
Where are the awards for free software hackers? (Score:1)
The most offensive is the "killerapp award" going to Corel's vaporware. What about Gimp, Samba, KDE, Gnome, Apache, Lyx, Wine? Every single one is more important than Corel's contribution. But I guess free software hackers didn't pay for expensive floor space.
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Slashdot is great. Posters are OK. (Score:1)
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-Rich (OS/2, Linux, Mac, NT, Solaris, FreeBSD, BeOS, and OS2200 user in Bloomington MN)
With the success that /. has had... (Score:1)
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-Rich (OS/2, Linux, Mac, NT, Solaris, FreeBSD, BeOS, and OS2200 user in Bloomington MN)
Soo-zeh (Score:1)
I like to say SuSe, it's fun.
Suuuuuuuuuuzeh!
what composer is that? (Score:1)
"Atta Boy" (Score:1)
Brahms.
what composer is that? (Score:1)
- Virgil
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Way to go! (Score:1)
Congrats (Score:1)
Next time you are in DFW, I'll buy you a beer to celebrate.
Cease and Desisit from using 'West Virginia' (Score:1)
;-)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
LinuxCare, Significant achievment? Certainly! (Score:1)
In my book, offering 24/7 Linux support is
an achievement.
Consider, for instance: we have a client with
ten thousand systems in the field who asked us
to recommend their next operating system. One
big issue in recommending Linux is whether they
can find (hopefully platinum level) 24/7 support from any
source whatsoever.
Originally the answer was "er...not exactly,
although there are some ways to get
Linux support in some form." (This client
builds their own rack-mount PC's, so it wouldn't
help to point to PC vendors that offer support;
that helps only if you buy that particular PC.)
(It helps to show that Microsoft doesn't offer
platinum-quality support, but it doesn't help
much; we want positives.)
Now, however, we can point to
LinuxCare as an example of big time support,
and have one less roadblock to recommending
Linux to clients like that.
The net effect will be to vastly increase
the opportunity for corporations to use
Linux. That's an achievement for the Linux
community, and it's quite
okay that LinuxCare will be making money in
the process. That's what business is about.
LinuxCare, Significant achievment? Certainly! (Score:1)
It's also the case that a good fraction of awards presented to anyone for anything in any field are debatable. :-) One example was the Nobel Prize for Medicine last year, for the discovery of prions, which was controversial because the existence of prions is still under debate in some quarters.
But I figure it's in good grace to cheer anyway; no harm has been done even given your point.
I do hope that they do a good job, giving Linux support a good name rather than a bad name. We shall see about that. If they screw up, presumably they'll face quick competition.
S.u.S.E. == "sooze" (Score:1)
The previous comments about Sousa seem to have confused folks, since there are continuing questions, so I thought it was worth answering again.
I know why /. won an award... (Score:1)
Of course, it's possible that I was talking to Mae Ling Mak wearing Rob's badge instead.
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Ben D Canning
bdc@bethany.edu
Well of /course/ you got it! Congratulations!! (Score:1)
Anneke
"Real Women Use Linux"
what composer is that? (Score:1)
Natural progession (Score:1)
The leader of the band... (Score:1)
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Much cooler than John Phillip...
what composer is that? (Score:1)
VmWare? (Score:1)
But... (Score:1)
Congratulations, thanks for playing!
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I'm a junkie (Score:1)
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Congrats to Slashdot! (Score:1)
Congrats to Slashdot! (Score:1)
Sousa-phone (Score:1)
yep... that was him. he hated french horns too, I can tell you... gave all the cool parts to the saxes and tried to kill us with offbeats!
ok. slight tangent.
Lea
the libertybellmarch (Score:1)
Slashdot is great. Posters are OK. (Score:1)
impress those spying MS employees too
Lea
Congrats for the yahoos (Score:1)
Wired News (Score:1)
Rob Sucks/This Post Sucks/Slashdot ... well.. (Score:1)
what composer is that? (Score:1)
Zontar
(somewhere in tenn.)
LinuxCare, Significant achievment? Certainly! (Score:1)
The Linuxcare founders and I folded our consulting businesses into Linuxcare... Essentially, we got sick and tired of trying to deploy Linux solutions in corporations only to get hit with the inevitable "well, who's going to support it?" questions from the NT/Solaris/Netware camps. So- now we're back with a vengeance with 24x7 SLA (service level agreement) based call center support, a boatload of additional offerings (training, lab, cert, etc.), a kick ass website and (currently) about 30 employees, all engineers- even our office manager is a Linux user/tech. Linuxcare has three primary goals. Provide better service then ANY other service organization regardless of platform or distribution, make money doing it (support our staff/reward investors) and (last but NOT least) support the Open Source community (sponsor development, provide resources, buy the beer, show up with bail) because (like any organic system) we are all responsible for it's health.
The whole idea was to lay low- work the bugs out of our systems (phone, incident tracking systems, office apps - most of which are Open Source all are Linux based) and launch the company at LinuxWorld. For what it's worth- we think the opportunity to do what we dig for a living is a tremendous responsibility. If you think we are screwing up I encourage you to email me at aftyde@linuxcare.com. I also encourage anyone who thinks linux is lacking in something to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
I think we got the award because we spent our retirement accounts on the party...
Woo hoo! (Score:1)
BRU/Enhanced Software Technologies?? (Score:1)
pronunciation of S.u.S.E. (Score:1)
Good work! (Score:1)
Keep it up!
S.u.S.E. == "sooze" (Score:1)
It is pronounced Soo-sa.
If you are in the US or Canada, you can call 1-888-875-4689 and here it yourself. (This is Suse's support line in Oakland CA.)
Congrats to Slashdot! (Score:1)
BTW, it's 'Minds are like Parachutes, they work poorly with lots of holes in them'
Sousa (Score:1)
Linux bozos (Score:1)
And the crowd roars
four-more-years!!
four-more-years!!
-earl
what composer is that? (Score:1)
Cease and Desisit from using 'West Virginia' (Score:1)
Cease and Desisit from using 'West Virginia' (Score:1)
pronunciation of S.u.S.E. (Score:1)
'Sue-zeh'
emphasis on the first syllable, the 'e' like in 'let'. At least that's how it's pronounced in German...
the libertybellmarch (Score:1)
Some less polite (read "wimpy excuses for band nerds") people know it as "pompous circumcision". But not I, because I have lips of steel.
I'm a junkie (Score:1)
(stands up in a small room of scraggly hackers) Hi. My name's Jason. I'm a /. junkie.
I'm glad, at least, that I'm a junkie of a LinuxWorld award-winning site.
What does S.u.S.E. stand for anyway? I always pronounced it soose
Rob, et. al. - how did you decide on Slashdot as a name? (as opposed to, say, slashtilde or slashdotdot or root)
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Congrats Rob & Co.. (Score:1)
(werking on that non-linux bit though =-)> )
whooo hooo! (Score:1)
Oh, forget it. Thought it was funny.
S.u.S.E. != "sweet" (Score:1)
I'm a junkie (Score:1)
Long live the yahoos (Score:1)
what composer is that? (Score:1)
Congratulations are in order! (Score:1)
O'Reilly & Associates (Score:1)
Adaptec? Why not buslogic/mylex? (Score:1)
Adaptec on the other hand gave linux developers the cold shoulder for years! Now that they've finally seen that there is lots of money in the linux serer market, they release specs. They should get an award for "Most linux hostile hardware company", along with ATI.
Their cards sucks and are overpriced, too!
Sousa (Score:1)
Congrats /.!!!! (Score:1)
Still too many real letters... (Score:1)
what composer is that? (Score:1)
American composer, wrote lots of marches. Oddly enough, the Monty Python Theme is a slightly speeded up version of his "Liberty Bell March." Or is it "Liberty March?" I forget.
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LinuxCare, Significant achievment? (Score:1)
Real yahoos (Score:1)
Congratulations! It's time the real guys win!
YES! (Score:1)
Go /.! (Score:1)
whooo hooo! (Score:1)
"Atta Boy" (Score:1)
BTW - which composer does SuSE rhyme with?
Sousa (Score:1)
DUH! I dunno where everyone gets the effeminate "Susie" from, or Sousa? Where the hell did you come up with THAT
BRU/Enhanced Software Technologies?? (Score:1)
Our personal version (PE) wes bundled with the Red Hat 5.0/5.1 distributions as well as the Caldera 1.2+ distributions. Since Red Hat's move to Open Source only, BRU is available on the applications CD in a 30 day demo form.
Of course, I could go on, but you can find out more from our website - http://www.estinc.com/
And a big THANKS to all of the LinuxWorld visitors that voted and selected BRU as their favorite utility.
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! (Score:1)
Well, now that Iv'e stolen another few hours worth of my employers time reading (the award-winning) slashdot, mabye I should actually get some work done.
Naaaahhh...
John.