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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">COMDEX/Spring 1998</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:">Jon "maddog" Hall</a></H4>
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<A HREF="./photos.html">COMDEX/Spring 1998 Photo Album</A>
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COMDEX in Chicago (April 20-23) was a titanic Linux hit. Vendors around us were astonished
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by the attention and business we drew to our booths.
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The Linux Pavilion had a huge sign overhead (thanks to Carlie Fairchild of
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<i>Linux Journal</i> and Andy Wahtera, our new ZD/COMDEX representative), and
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multiple large floor signs guided people entering COMDEX to the Linux
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International Pavilion. We had a page on the COMDEX Web site, mention in
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the Show Daily and other marketing ``aids''.
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Linux International vendors with booths in the Pavilion were Caldera, S.u.S.E., InfoMagic
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Inc., <i>Linux Journal</i> and Red Hat Software, Inc., a small number of vendors,
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but big in heart.
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While smaller in attendance than its Las Vegas cousin, COMDEX in Chicago
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seemed to have a lot more end-user customers than the Las Vegas
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show--not
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really surprising when you consider Chicago is a cultural, economic and
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manufacturing center. While Mr. Bill was still trying to boot Windows 98 and
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have it stay up, the Linux International Pavilion was singing a sweet song.
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Some people thought we had set a new world's record for ``longest line at
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COMDEX''--the line where people waited to pick up a free Linux CD-ROM.
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I accompanied Red Hat's ``booth gang'', Anna, Terry and
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Mike, to visit the Argonne National Laboratory and Western Suburban Chicago
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Linux Users Group (which thankfully is abbreviated AALUG and has its web site
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at http://hydra.pns.anl.gov/lug/lug-main.html). The meeting was actually held
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at the Fermi National Lab, which recently announced that Linux will be
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officially supported at their laboratory and with their applications. Donnie
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Barnes flew in from Durham, North Carolina to give a talk on Red Hat 5.0, and
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to help give out Red Hat ``souvenirs''. I gave a brief talk at the end of
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Donnie's epic speech.
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After the meeting ended, Dr. G. P. Yeh, a physicist in the computing division,
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invited us on a tour to see a particle-collider detector. Fermi is expanding
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their collider, and the new one is expected to produce more than 20 times the
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data of its predecessor. To expand the computing power to analyze and
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store this data in real time with traditional methods would have been very
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costly, so now Fermi is building a 1000-node Beowulf system to detect quarks
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(and other little things). Dr. Yeh
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told us that without Linux and the concept of Beowulf systems, the costs of supplying computer power for the next
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generation of collider would be many times what they are now forecasting.
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Our sincere thanks to Dan Yocum for setting up the meeting at Fermi and
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advertising it, and to Dr. Yeh for showing us the collider.
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On Wednesday S.u.S.E. gave a talk at the Chicagoland Linux Users Group, and
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on Thursday I gave a two-hour ``ramble'' to the same group after COMDEX
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was over. Then, tired and thirsty, most people retired to the Goose Island
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Brewpub.
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The Chicagoland Linux Users Group (http://clug.cc.uic.edu/) helped to staff
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the Linux International booth, hand out flyers and line up user group
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meetings. So ``thank you'' to Clyde Reichie, Don Weimann, Simon Epsteyn,
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William Golembo, Gennagy ``Ugean'' Polishchuk, Long Huynh, Perry Mages, Viktorie
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Navratilova, Ben Galliart, Richard Hinton, and especially to Dave Blondell,
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the president, who organized the group and the schedules.
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Linux International would like to encourage other Linux vendors to join us in
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the next Linux Pavilion at COMDEX, whether it be in Las Vegas or Chicago. We
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are definitely looking forward to the next COMDEX in the windy city. For
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information on membership or other information about Linux International,
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visit our web site, http://www.li.org/.
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1998, Jon "maddog" Hall <BR>
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Published in Issue 28 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, May 1998</H5></center>
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