LinuxExpo Report, Days 2 and 3
Hello,
It's me again, this time reporting on Friday and Saturday at
LinuxExpo.
Pictures from Thursday and Friday (including the LinuxBowl with Maddog
Hall) are online now, at:
http://www.debian.org/~jgoerzen/
I'll be putting the photos from today (Saturday) up as time permits.
Here are the highlights:
* More questions about "why should I use Debian", "what's different
about Debian", etc.
* Shaleh installed Debian on 5-10 laptops during the Expo.
* I went off and talked to some RedHat, LinuxCare, and other folks.
Details on this are in other places.
* Dres "volunteered" me to talk to Linux Radio. I said a few words
about free software, our 500 developers, and how our open
development process and freedom from marketing pressures results
in higher-quality and more stable distributions.
* Took some more flak about dselect.
When somebody tried this with Dres, he'd start maniacally yelling
"DSELECT IS PERFECT! WE WILL USE DSELECT FOREVER!"
We showed a few people how to use dselect, too.
* The slashdot folks succeeded in shooting us with their nerf gun.
We succeeded in shooting them with rubber bands. :-)
* Got a lot more praise about our distro.
* The hats that Dres made were 'leet. Lots of folks wanted them.
Possibility for future conferences: sell Debian books and aparrel.
* We showed off apt-gnome to a few folks.
* SGI folks showed a lot of interest in us, as did LinuxCare.
* Linux.com looks really nifty, will be supporting us.
* There was a lot of interest in our non-i386 distros, especially
Alpha (there were lots of Alpha vendors there) and, to a slightly
lesser extent, Sparc.
* Big thanks to LinuxCentral for for donating CDs.
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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Remote from the Debian booth at Linux Expo
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