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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1215)	3/2/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2615

From slashdot.org ... Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 02, @06:33PM from the stuff-to-read dept. I'm still here from the floor (Thanks again to LinuxWorld for giving us a booth and Linux-HW for flying us out here). Its crazy. It's absolutely gigantic relative to ALS. The mega-stars are here in full force- Caldera, Compaq, LinuxCare, Red Hat, and VA Research each have absolutely huge booths. I've been snapping pictures and trying to talk to keep up with the email and stories from here, but keeping up is proving near impossible. In the meantime, its entertaining to note that the press room is compaq boxes... running windows. And Shayde from Freshmeat is posting updates. Wired has a bit too, complete with a terribly out of context quote from me. Anyway, soon things will calm down and I can hopefully post pictures and write up a real report... hang in there. Read More... wired.com Linux Goes Mainstream by Leander Kahney 9:45 a.m. 2.Mar.99.PST Suddenly, suits are crashing the Linux party. Big-business alliances and million-dollar deals are a whole new world for the open-source system. And developers known for their free thinking have decidedly mixed feelings about the makeup of their crowd. "The hardcore free-software folks fear that the commercialization of Linux will detract from its origins as free software," said Rob Malda, who runs Slashdot, a major information clearinghouse for the open-source software movement. "Businesses are thought of as inherently untrustworthy." Below is one of the "toy" operating system threads. It can be fun too. Subject 4443 This fall they should fly the whole SI Linux thread out there and give us a booth.