tlug: Euro-Japan Linux Conference

["Stephen Carter" <sncarter@example.com>]

Hello TLUGers,

This is the message I've been trying to send to the list, and after
resubscribing to tlug-post, I seem to be able to post again.

I’ll have a “final” report later. The whole conference was quite
interesting. I don’t know a lot, so I learned a lot. But some of the
European developments would be of interest to anyone, I suspect. They will
put up some of the power point type presentations on a website, and I’ll
pass along the URL when they do.  As I mention below, I’ll have lots of CDs
for the upcoming TLUG meeting, and I can give a short summary hitting a few
of the high points-looks like I will actually be able to attend this month.
The Mandrake CD is the complete distribution, not a “lite” version. Meeting
the European developers was a great experience, and seeing some of the
software has given me the impetus to convert some of our stuff here at the
ACCJ from NT OpenSource programs running on Linux.


>From Thursday, June 24:

I’ve been attending the conference and having a good time. Lots of European
developments that I don’t know anything about, so it’s great to hear about
them from the people who are developing, or who work at the companies that
are making them available.

Austin and Oliver have been there as well. We’ll have lots of disks for the
next TLUG meeting-SUSE gave us 30 with a SUSE lite-a full working
distribution, but not all the extra parts. Mandrake (which will also be
released as part of a Macmillan “Complete Linux” book/distribution soon),
also will have a bunch of CDs for us. I’ll see what else I can get that
would be useful.

SUSE will have someone here in the Fall, and we might schedule them into a
meeting. I’ll report more later. I’ll be there most of tomorrow, when all
the distribution people will speak.  Today was applications and case
studies. I’m pleased to see that even though the conference is billed as
business oriented, very few of us were in suits, and everybody is still
pretty much  in the “enthusiast” category.

I was very impressed by the presentation on Roxen, a web server. If it's as
fast and robust as they say, then I want to try it out. Check it out on
http://www.idonex.com. The programming language they’ve developed is pretty
interesting also.

SteveC

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