Gservo
24th January 2003, 03:04 AM
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This week in New York, it’s Linux expo
Basically a Geek Day
This year was pretty decent but the Expo was smaller than I remembered. It’s not the Expo it used to be, but in the days of a shaky American economy , what more can you expect. Most of the conference was the business side of things. A lot of good resources for those in the IT Field of course. I got a Free pass, so there was no money out of pocket.
The best things about the show was the confidence in the exhibitors. The last Linux Expo I went to they were beating their chest screaming you need to put us in you companies infrastructure. The feeling this year was one of we are a part of your infrastructure, in one way are another, we know, so we want to show you how to make it better.
So On to what I saw
The funny thing about the Linux expo, there was nothing really free, software wise, demo’s galore. There was ONE piece of software I received free and that was Star Office 6.0 from sun. It says evaluation software but there is not time limit I see. When I do my Linux box(details coming in march) I will write and evaluation.
ANYHOO
AMD was the first booth, (This is going in the order I saw things) The first thing I drooled over was their rack systems, a crunchers dream, Dual and Quad systems everywhere, but that’s about it, a pretty show and not a lot of actual worth while content which most people did not know about already. Basically it AMD saying, “where in a lot of the boxes of this conference, are we not nifty?” The only thing worth mentioning, was AMD’s Development BOX It was this case about the size of a small fridge on rollerblade wheels with a Quad CPU system running. The ******* would not give me anymore details. I think they were just Teasing the geeks
The HP booth, well the only I saw was, them trying to be like dell. Oh yeah, I got a rubber penguin.
Dell, Well Sell was cool , not fantastic, but cool. They presented their usual line of servers in a nice simple set up.
Red Hat was there but surprisingly, they gave nothing free. They used to give the Core of their Linux OS out with no support of applications.
Intel was standard. Nothing Special AT ALL big a flashy, but not really offering nothing new. They had Rack Systems also. I basically blew through there like a breeze
SuSE Linux was giving a presentation on themselves. They seem to be making a push for the Enterprise desktop market blah blah blah, they have been doing that F O R E V E R.
After the SUSE booth I basically just wandered around all the small name booths and Magazine companies getting free magazines and pens. There were a few companies who pre setup laptop with various versions Linux. None of the smaller companies had anything innovative this year, just variations of the same old song .
Then I got a smack in the face as I walked up on the Micro$oft booth. They were Pushing open web development products but were not being real clear on which OS they were supporting. After the Booth Rep. figured out I had a clue, he tried to sell products to me revealing that he had no clue, you could tell he was trained to answer and had NO understanding of what he was selling. So I walked away while he was in mid sentence. It felt good
I mad it to the sun booth, Posted on NINJA then. I got to play on their Sunray
the sunray is a thin client machine, no drives I quickly opened up MoZilla,
the guy asked me what I was doing, I said, "well this is the site that I might have on about 20 of these boxes" i was lying through my teeth, but it was worth it. It was a cool little box if you have a shop. It was rather interesting if more if you have a business, the geek factor was low, But everything else in their booth was cool. One of their booth rep was playing unreal 2003 I drooled, and had to pick up my jaw. Solaris is a beautiful OS, We will have a sun system running Solaris one day, our precious. So bright, so beautiful, our precious. We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. Ooops sorry, that wont happen again, promise
Then I came to the twilight of the Expo
I made it to the sacred UBER Geek area. Ate the Gentoo Linux Booth they were playing Unreal. Then a passed by the NY Linux User's Group, a group I will be joining up with in the summer(to bring you folks as much new Linux news as possible)
Then I ran across Geekcorps, Geekcorps is a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to expanding the Internet revolution internationally by pairing skilled volunteers from the high-tech world with small- to-medium sized businesses in emerging nations. Geekcorps and its partner businesses in developing nations evaluate technical needs. Then Geekcorps selects volunteers with the expertise to meet those needs. Geekcorps trains its volunteers to teach their skills to people from different backgrounds. Volunteers spend between one and four months on-site in developing nations, supported by Geekcorps’ in- country staff. They spend their working hours helping the partner businesses. And spend their free time exploring their host country and meeting its people. I am seriously thinking about joining up.
With that my time there was over. It was time to go. Fun was had, Geek life
PH33R Gservo’s reality it’s always changing
This week in New York, it’s Linux expo
Basically a Geek Day
This year was pretty decent but the Expo was smaller than I remembered. It’s not the Expo it used to be, but in the days of a shaky American economy , what more can you expect. Most of the conference was the business side of things. A lot of good resources for those in the IT Field of course. I got a Free pass, so there was no money out of pocket.
The best things about the show was the confidence in the exhibitors. The last Linux Expo I went to they were beating their chest screaming you need to put us in you companies infrastructure. The feeling this year was one of we are a part of your infrastructure, in one way are another, we know, so we want to show you how to make it better.
So On to what I saw
The funny thing about the Linux expo, there was nothing really free, software wise, demo’s galore. There was ONE piece of software I received free and that was Star Office 6.0 from sun. It says evaluation software but there is not time limit I see. When I do my Linux box(details coming in march) I will write and evaluation.
ANYHOO
AMD was the first booth, (This is going in the order I saw things) The first thing I drooled over was their rack systems, a crunchers dream, Dual and Quad systems everywhere, but that’s about it, a pretty show and not a lot of actual worth while content which most people did not know about already. Basically it AMD saying, “where in a lot of the boxes of this conference, are we not nifty?” The only thing worth mentioning, was AMD’s Development BOX It was this case about the size of a small fridge on rollerblade wheels with a Quad CPU system running. The ******* would not give me anymore details. I think they were just Teasing the geeks
The HP booth, well the only I saw was, them trying to be like dell. Oh yeah, I got a rubber penguin.
Dell, Well Sell was cool , not fantastic, but cool. They presented their usual line of servers in a nice simple set up.
Red Hat was there but surprisingly, they gave nothing free. They used to give the Core of their Linux OS out with no support of applications.
Intel was standard. Nothing Special AT ALL big a flashy, but not really offering nothing new. They had Rack Systems also. I basically blew through there like a breeze
SuSE Linux was giving a presentation on themselves. They seem to be making a push for the Enterprise desktop market blah blah blah, they have been doing that F O R E V E R.
After the SUSE booth I basically just wandered around all the small name booths and Magazine companies getting free magazines and pens. There were a few companies who pre setup laptop with various versions Linux. None of the smaller companies had anything innovative this year, just variations of the same old song .
Then I got a smack in the face as I walked up on the Micro$oft booth. They were Pushing open web development products but were not being real clear on which OS they were supporting. After the Booth Rep. figured out I had a clue, he tried to sell products to me revealing that he had no clue, you could tell he was trained to answer and had NO understanding of what he was selling. So I walked away while he was in mid sentence. It felt good
I mad it to the sun booth, Posted on NINJA then. I got to play on their Sunray
the sunray is a thin client machine, no drives I quickly opened up MoZilla,
the guy asked me what I was doing, I said, "well this is the site that I might have on about 20 of these boxes" i was lying through my teeth, but it was worth it. It was a cool little box if you have a shop. It was rather interesting if more if you have a business, the geek factor was low, But everything else in their booth was cool. One of their booth rep was playing unreal 2003 I drooled, and had to pick up my jaw. Solaris is a beautiful OS, We will have a sun system running Solaris one day, our precious. So bright, so beautiful, our precious. We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. Ooops sorry, that wont happen again, promise
Then I came to the twilight of the Expo
I made it to the sacred UBER Geek area. Ate the Gentoo Linux Booth they were playing Unreal. Then a passed by the NY Linux User's Group, a group I will be joining up with in the summer(to bring you folks as much new Linux news as possible)
Then I ran across Geekcorps, Geekcorps is a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to expanding the Internet revolution internationally by pairing skilled volunteers from the high-tech world with small- to-medium sized businesses in emerging nations. Geekcorps and its partner businesses in developing nations evaluate technical needs. Then Geekcorps selects volunteers with the expertise to meet those needs. Geekcorps trains its volunteers to teach their skills to people from different backgrounds. Volunteers spend between one and four months on-site in developing nations, supported by Geekcorps’ in- country staff. They spend their working hours helping the partner businesses. And spend their free time exploring their host country and meeting its people. I am seriously thinking about joining up.
With that my time there was over. It was time to go. Fun was had, Geek life
PH33R Gservo’s reality it’s always changing