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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>
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<center> <H1> Recent Linux Conferences </H1> </center>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="./expo.html#expo">Unix Expo 1996</a>, by Lydia Kinata
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<li><a HREF="./expo.html#decus">DECUS in Anaheim</a>, by Phil Hughes
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<li><a HREF="./expo.html#open">Open Systems World/FedUNIX</a>, by Gary Moore
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<H2>Unix Expo 1996, October 8-10 in New York</H2>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:linux@ssc.com">Lydia Kinata</a></H4>
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This show was actually billed as Unix Expo Plus I^2--a nod to the
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increasing interest in all things NT and Internet. In fact, in
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1997 the show will no longer be called Unix Expo at all, it
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will be billed as <I>IT Forum 97</I>, Internet and Technology Forum.</P>
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Despite a preponderance of Internet and NT related vendors and
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seminars, (and the ubiquitous presence of Bill Gates), the show
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went very well for <I>Linux Journal</I> and SSC. Various
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disasters struck, notably the loss of half of our booth display
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by UPS, but all in all it was quite successful. With the
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exception of Caldera, all of us Linux-types were stuck off
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in the corner of the show room, but we were still
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swamped by happy Linux and Unix users who had specifically
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made the trek in support of their favorite OS. The show in general
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had a lower attendance than was expected by show management,
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but the Linux contingent were doing quite nicely anyway.</P>
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2,500 <I>Linux Journal</I> and 1,600 <I>WEBsmith</I> magazines
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were given away. Many people subscribed right there at the show,
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many others went away clutching their SSC Unix References or books
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with dazed-but-happy expressions. Those of us working the booth
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made lots of contacts, and I must say it was a great experience
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meeting subscribers and customers who share such enthusiasm
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for Unix and Linux. Those NT developers should take note:
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Unix users are a dedicated bunch.</P>
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New York was a blast, although I had to laugh when the locals
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got panicky when a 'Nor-Easter' blew through. I had to say,
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"Come on, guys. It's just raining." They should come to Seattle
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some time.</P>
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--Lydia Kinata, SSC Products Specialist
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1996, Lydia Kinata <BR>
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Published in Issue 12 of the Linux Gazette</H5></center>
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<H1>DECUS in Anaheim</H1>
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<H4> by Phil Hughes,
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<a href="mailto:phil@ssc.com">phil@ssc.com</a></H4>
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On November 11 through 13, Carlie Fairchild and I attended the
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DECUS show in Anaheim, California. While DECUS has generally been a
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good show for SSC, this show was small and we were the only Linux
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vendor attending. The best guess why is with UseLinux coming up in
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the same place in January, it was an easy show for people--vendors as
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well as Linux-heads--to skip.
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There was a series of talks on Linux presented by Jon
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"maddog" Hall and myself. Attendance was between 20 and
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50, and I think we managed to make some converts.
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Carlie had also arranged for to speak to the local Linux user's
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group on Wednesday night. About 25 attended (including
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"maddog"). I presented a talk called <I>Looking at
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Linux.</I> Much of this talk focused on the commercial viability of
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Linux, which was an issue many of the group's members had been
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attempting to address on their own. In the talk I stressed four
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criteria for commercial viability:
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<ul>
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<li>reliability,
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<li>interoperability,
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<li>support
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<li>and capabilities.
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</ul>
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The talk was well received and the meeting turned into a informal
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discussion of Linux in general. I look forward to talking with these
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people again during the UseLinux show.
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--Phil Hughes, Publisher <I>Linux Journal</I>
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1996, Phil Hughes <BR>
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Published in Issue 12 of the Linux Gazette</H5></center>
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<H1>Open Systems World/FedUNIX</H1>
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<H4> by Gary Moore,
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<a href="mailto:ljeditor@ssc.com">ljeditor@ssc.com</a></H4>
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The first week of November, I went to Washington, D.C. to attend Open
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Systems World/FedUNIX. While several dedicated Linux fans came by the
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booth, most of the people I talked to knew very little about Linux. Some
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were just cruising the booths, collecting whatever anyone was giving away,
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but we don't mind--the literature they picked up may spark some real
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interest later on. (One show attendee, in addition to taking a few of
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whatever we had also took the neat twirly thing we'd acquired from another
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exhibitor's booth.)
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<P>Linux vendors in attendance were Yggdrasil Computing, InfoMagic,
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and Red Hat Software, giving me a chance to meet Adam Richter of
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Yggdrasil, Bob Young and Lisa Sullivan of Red Hat, and Henry Pierce
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and Greg Deeds of InfoMagic.
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<P>Adding credence to Linux's worth in the minds of those with no free
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software experience was Digital Equipment's display of a DEC Alpha
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running Linux and Maddog's enthusiasm for the operating system. (By
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the time I got over to actually see the machine, someone was
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demonstrating Quake on it. I sat down and showed him a couple things I
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remembered from playing Doom--it was kind of surreal to be
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sitting amidst all the professional frumpery of the show while
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virtually running around swinging a very large and lethal axe.)
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<P>Jeff Leyland of Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica, spoke
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about Wolfram switching to Linux as their development platform. There
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were other speakers I should have made time to hear, but I got caught up
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talking to people coming by our booth and asking about Linux. I know
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that after a few talks, the Linux booths would get flooded with people
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excited to check it out.
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<P>I also heard Ernst & Young--well known for their accounting
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services among other things--apparently use Red Hat Linux
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in-house and asked IBM, with whom they contract for computer services,
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to support their Linux machines. (If you're from Ernst & Young,
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please send me some mail. We'd like to hear about how you're
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using Linux.)
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<P>Adam Richter predicted a new version of Yggdrasil's Plug-and-Play
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Linux in the first quarter of 1997. At OSW they had pressings of their
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new 8-CD Internet Archives set, which includes several distributions,
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including a couple I hadn't heard of before.
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<P>I would've felt cutoff from the world (yes, even in D.C. on
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election night) if it hadn't been for David Lescher, who set me up
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with some dial-in PPP access for my laptop, and David Niemi, who made
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some necessary tweaks to my chat script. I'm also grateful to Mark
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Komarinski, who put together a Linux talk on very short notice when I
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found I was dangerously close to having no time whatsoever to prepare
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one myself.
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<P>The Santa Cruz Operation was there giving away copies of their Free
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SCO OpenServer. Someone who'd just acquired one of those gems asked me
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why she'd be interested in Linux if she had OpenServer; I noted its
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limitations and handed her a copy of Linux Journal, hoping to plant a
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seed. Some attendees were being less subtle, affixing prominently to
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their big blue IBM literature boxes the Linux bumper stickers we were
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giving away.
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--Gary Moore, Editor of <I>Linux Journal</I>
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1996, Gary Moore <BR>
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Published in Issue 12 of the Linux Gazette</H5></center>
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