wired.com — LinuxWorld is the E3 for many open source visionaries, tinkerers and zealots who rally around the communal ethos of open software. This year's conference is especially charged. As more open source projects like Firefox go mainstream, it's an exciting time for the GNU gurus to show the rest of the world the light.
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rodrigo74Aug 7, 2008
Like pretty much everything that comes from Wired, this article has some nice pics but very little substance.
commodore13Aug 7, 2008
Wow. I wish that they would have linked to the blog of "Gloria Galicia, left, and Perla Ibarra," in slide 6.
chrish01Aug 7, 2008
LinuxWorld is the worst opensource convention out there. The only saving grace is that the .org pavilion has some good folks.The companies who show up are rarely free and opensource and mostly just want to take advantage of the community. I guess thats a given though since someone like Larry Augustine started it. He seems to f**k up everything he touches.
mikelanghorstAug 7, 2008
This is my third year attending, and the conference is definitely getting worse. They added in the "NGDC" or Next Generation Data Center, which is more focused on virtualization and grid computing taking up a large portion of the expo floor. Many of the distros are no longer in attendance. RedHat hasn't been here for the last 3 years at least since I've been coming. Novell and IBM were here in force in 2006 & 2007 yet are nowhere to be found this year. Other than those in the .org pavillion the only commercial distro that is here is Canonical.Also their wireless connectivity in the sessions is horrendous. Really shouldn't be that difficult.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2008
"From 7.0 version, PC-BSD will follow the same numeration, as FreeBSD. PC-BSD 7.0 will include KDE4.1."