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. 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