Thanks for sharing the photos. This brings back a lot of memories for me.
The two vendors that stood out to me the most are Caldera and Sybase.
Despite Caldera's latter shenanigans, Open Linux 1.x still holds a special
place in my heart because it was my first distro and included KDE 1.0. I
still use KDE 24 years later.
Marvin

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:01 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:

> LOL, I was thinking the same thing, Dave! :) Like young Voldemort in Harry
> Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, could I have known what evil lay within
> (that booth)?? :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 10:58:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [nlug] Found some old pics - LinuxWorld 1999 - Day 3 -
> 08/10/1999
>
> Wow,
>
> Even a picture of the Caldera booth before they became suicidal.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 2020-12-07 10:51, Curt Lundgren wrote:
> > Those were the days!  I attended a LinuxWorld in the Moscone Center,
> > don't remember the year.  What impressed me more than anything else
> > was the preponderance of MacBook Pros being lugged around by all my
> > fellow geeks.  They ran Unix, after all, and you could get under the
> > hood in terminal or xterm so easily.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM mjbtn <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Don't know that any one of you even cares to look at any of these,
> >> but here they are nonethe less! :) I recall at the time thinking,
> >> "Wow! All this just for Linux?!??". Of course, the next day,
> >> 08/11/1999, was the day Red Hat's IPO hit Wall Street. Because I had
> >> taken so many shots on Day 3, I didn't bother lugging around my
> >> trusty Kodak DC260 digital camera (a bit of a brick by today's
> >> standards). Most unfortunate that I didn't, though, as the place was
> >> swarming all around the Red Hat booth. And, I missed a great photo
> >> op with Linus himself over by the Hard Hat Linux /  MontaVista
> >> Software booth. In looking back through these now, over 2 decades
> >> later, what has come out of the Linux world is nothing short of
> >> mindboggling! We went back to LinuxWorld 2003 at Macone Center in
> >> San Francisco, and the massively expanded grandeur of that 2003
> >> event over the 1999 one proved beyond a shadow that Linux's ship had
> >> indeed arrived big time. At any length, I thought that someone
> >> besides just me might enjoy some blasts from the past, that in
> >> truth, really doesn't seem like so long ago. Time flies when you're
> >> having fun, eh?! :)
> >>
> >> https://lychee.raider.net/#16073546086429
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