More Pictures from Absolute Value |
October 20 |
AbsoluteValue Software
also made
some pictures from ALS available. Thanks!
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ALS 1999 is over! |
October 16 |
Here are the people that made it happen:
Back: Paul Manno, Blake Sorensen, Marc Torres, Robbie Honekamp, Joakim Erdfelt, Levien de Braal
Middle: Valerie Cox, Danny Cox, Chris Farris, Greg Hankins, Steve Lewis
Front: Hunter Eidson, Vernard Martin, Ben Cooper, Louis Bouchard
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The NeXT box is working!! We have a winner! |
October 16 |
To fix the problems on the Novare box, Zephaniah ("Mercury") Hull
modified the kernel source so that it dropped bad network packets
before even trying to process them. A crude hack, but effective, and as a result, Zephaniah will get to take the NeXT box home with him!
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The XFree86 Development Hothouse, an unqualified success |
October 16 |
The XFree86 Development Hothouse was so successful that XFree86 4.0
is now expected to be released by the end of December, reported The
XFree86 team members who participated.
For more
details, check this report from Liz
Coolbaugh on the team's summary of the achievements of the hothouse.
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The Results of the Puffinfest |
October 16 |
The Puffinfest, which had the goal of here at the show is focused on
furthering the port of Linux to HP's PA-RISC line of HP 9000 UNIX
servers, was a success. Alex deVries, Vice President of Engineering at the Puffin Group, reported to us that the
Puffinfest brought quantifiable progress to the HP port, including
correct interrupt handling, serial console support, the beginning of
SCSI controller support and, for the finale, they actually got a shell
up and running. They also did some planning for introducing 64-bit
support and HP is offering their engineering support and hardware
to further progress.
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Linux Professional Institute: Council Call! |
October 16 |
LPI Advisory Council: Call For Test Questions
Over 25 members of the advisory council of the Linux Professional Institute met today to plan the future launch of the first LPI Linux Certification Exams. Members of the Linux Community are being asked to help write test questions. The planned launch of the exams, with an announcement at the Linux Business Expo accompanying COMDEX, depends on our ability to help LPI out quickly.
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LWN Booth Babe! |
October 16 |
Ever responsive to people's requests, LWN arranged for
their own Booth Babe!
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Free NeXT machine available in the Debian booth |
October 16 |
Novare is sponsoring a NeXT hack in the Debian booth. The current status
of the port has a buggy network driver. It dies at random points during bootup with an 'skput:over' error message. If anyone can get it booting, they can take the box home with them after the show.
Please come to the Debian booth, and talk to Adam Heath(aka doogie) for details.
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LWN headlines available as 'My Netscape' channel |
October 16 |
Well, we finally got our act together and set things up so that our
headlines are available as a "My Netscape" channel. For those of you who
use "My Netscape," it should be sufficient to hit this
link to see LWN on your page.
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More pictures |
October 15 |
Additional pictures have been added to our Pictures Page (and some of the others have been "improved").
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Loki Hack 1999: 48 hours of fun (no sleep) |
October 15 |
Check out this report on Loki Hack 1999.
Kudos to Loki Games, Activision and especially all the participants,
who shared knowledge with each other to produce tremendous results
in a short time working with over 500,000 lines of source code that
they had never seen before.
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NetBSD Exhibiting Multiple Platforms |
October 15 |
NetBSD is here at ALS, and they are showcasing their operating system running on Intel, Strongarm, PowerPC, and Alpha boxes. XFree86 and Enlightment on NetBSD, running on an a PowerPC G3! What fun!
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LinuxMall on the road to an IPO? |
October 15 |
Linux Mall's partnership with
SCO was announced
in a press conference at ALS on October 14. Hambrecht & Quist has also taken
a minority stake in Linux Mall. "We're on the IPO track." confirmed
Mark Bolzern who continues to hold the majority controlling interest
in Linux Mall after this deal. There is no guarantee such an IPO will
happen or be successful. However, many investors might welcome an IPO
from a Linux company with revenues that have been and continue
to be in the black.
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Online Form Allows Vendors to Post Announcements |
October 15 |
Got an interesting news item that your organization is announcing at the Atlanta Linux Showcase? Head on over to our official ALS news submission page and send us your note.
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SCO Money for LinuxMall - CEO (Bolzern) promises vendor-neutrality |
October 15 |
SCO and the investment firm Hambrech and Quist are
putting money into LinuxMall.com.
Mark Bolzern promised that the money would not
change their "long-standing, vendor-neutral and
community-oriented business approach.
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Talk Report: Linux at the Chasm |
October 15 |
Tim Fournet, one of our LWN volunteers for the show, has
provided us with a report
on Don Rosenberg's talk, "Linux at the Chasm", which
was given yesterday at 11am.
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SGI Global Education - but no Jeremy! |
October 15 |
We just got handed an invitation to SGI Global Education's
"evening of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and Linux discussion",
which is scheduled for tonight, Friday, from 9pm to midnight.
Interestingly enough, Jeremy Allison, the keynote speaker,
(who, as it happens, works for SGI), also learned about
the event from the same invitation! He'd love to be there,
but his flight is scheduled out this afternoon ...
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Linux Internationalization Initiative |
October 15 |
Li18nux, the Linux Internationalization Initiative has been
founded, consisting of Linux distributors, open source projects,
IT vendors and world-wide technical experts interested in
internationalization. Some of the initial founders include
Caldera, Debimaru GNU/Linux, Plamo Linux, Red Hat,
SuSE, TurboLinux and over 30 others.
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Unconfirmed Rumor from the floor: Big sale for IBM |
October 15 |
We hear that a very large number of IBM RS/6000 Enterprise Server B50s
running Linux have been sold here at the show.
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Zendragon Software Announces Linux-Exclusive Game |
October 15 |
You heard me - Zendragon Software is partnering with Loki Entertainment to bring a Linux-only game to market. The game will be available only for Linux and for the Sony Playstation. Matthew Allen, Vice-President of Development for Zendragon Software says, "Life is good." -Dave
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Linux Today joins the LWN ALS Show coverage team |
October 15 |
We're pleased to report that Dave Whitinger and his team will
be joining with us today to increase and improve our coverage of
the Atlanta Linux Showcase! Keep your eyes peeled for the additional
news and reports.
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Pictures! |
October 14 |
Thanks to Dennis Tenney, Sean Summers and Tim Fournet for our
first pictures from the show.
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PA-RISC/Linux Puffinfest |
October 14 |
The Puffinfest here at the show is focused on furthering the port of Linux to HP's PA-RISC line of HP 9000 UNIX servers. Jointly sponsored by
Hewlett-Packard Company and The Puffin Group, the Puffinfest brings
developers together in a private and secure development lab, with internet access, hardware, and documentation, to take the project to the next level.
The Puffinfest is an example of the type of hothouse that the ALS loves
to support.
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Live web cam online |
October 14 |
Adam Heath and the Debian booth have put up a live web camera at their booth. It is being updated once a minute during exhibit hours.
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External Mirror available |
October 14 |
For people reaching this site from outside the show floor, please
note the external mirror available on the LWN site. If you would please use this, it will help to
keep the traffic internal to the show floor more manageable. Thank you!
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Beta Driver for OnStream DI30 Tape Drive |
October 14 |
OnStream has announced
the beta of a
driver for their OnStream DI30 Tape Driver. This was written
independently by Gadi Oxman, maintainer of the standard Linux IDE tape
driver and is open source. "OnStream will continue to work with
Mr. Oxman to make new versions available to the public as soon as possible".
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Words from the Welcome Dinner |
October 13 |
The ALS provided a welcome dinner this evening for speakers and exhibitors.
Marc Torres addressed the crowd with a few words. For those unfamiliar
with the ALS show, he described their goal, not to be just a tradeshow,
but to be a conference truly for the Linux community. To further
that aim, the ALS this year added their Development Hothouses for
XFree86, the Loki Hack and the Puffin Group. More such community-building
activities should be expected in the future.
He also mentioned that ALS2000 was planned for the same facility next
year and expects to expand on this tradition.
Chris Farris then introduced the ALS staff who are working so hard
on the show and provided up-to-the minute details for exhibitors.
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Welcome to the Atlanta Linux Showcase! |
October 13 |
This website is dedicated to information live from the floor of
the Atlanta Linux Showcase. We plan on bringing to you reports
from various talks and tips on items from exhibitors. There are
many other Linux newssites located out here as well and we'll
try to link to any and all items that they provide. LWN is
very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to ALS,
a true Linux community show.
A word to our sponsors: VALinux contributed the server on which
this website is being maintained and served on the show floor.
Aspen Systems donated the use of a desktop workstation for the use
of the LWN staff in the maintenance of this site (and has been
great helping us track down the monitor that went missing ...).
Most of all, of course, we thank the ALS team for putting on a
great show and for asking us for our participation.
Tips and items for the page: These should be sent to
lwn@linuxshowcase.org (which won't be working until 9am Thursday
morning -- use lwn@lwn.als.linuxshowcase.org for items you
want to get in early). Of course, if they are of general interest outside
the show, you can also send them into lwn@lwn.net or to your favorite Linux news site. If you do send it to another
newssite, please let us know the URL when it becomes available and we'll
link it onto the show page.
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Updated Exhibitor map with live links. |
October 13 |
Adam Heath (Doogie) has built an image map of the exhibitor
hall that will allow you to click on a booth and link directly
through to the home page of the vendor. Give it a try! Quite
fun. Only one or two vendors are missing still.
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