I went to LinuxWorld Expo on Wednesday. It was really interesting and I enjoyed it, although I did spend a little too much time there. The emDebian stand was interesting and I chatted about HTC phones running Linux for a while. The Hula stand showed me a nice installation of Hula. I was impressed with this and have tried getting it working on my server, failing so far on the fact that I need to use apache2 and this is broken at the moment. There were other interesting stands, but you know ‘em. I listened to Jono Bacon’s talk on Ubuntu in the community, or something like that. It was alright, but a little tedious as I already knew about Ubuntu! In fact, this week has made me appreciate Ubuntu a lot more. Another thing that I thought was interesting at the expo was the fact that some stands had people who didn’t really know much about the project, or direct competitors, which was a little odd. An amusing thing was the corporate stands- as soon as they saw I was representing no company they realised I must be a student and promptly ignored me!
I got several bits of free stuff, including:
November 6th, 2006 at 1:30 am
I’m very jealous. I wish I’d gone to Linux World. Actually, I met someone who was a bit envious as they’d wanted to go. I edged away, slowly…
I like the look of your blog, it’s looking very purrrty.