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. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Remote from the Debian booth at Linux Expo
