Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Information Overload at LinuxWorld

So much news at LinuxWorld, so many discussions, and far too much to capture within a few minutes right now. I’ll dump more of my thoughts here later this week. It took a while for me to actually make my way to the show floor and once I did… shock took over. While I suspected LinuxWorld had “matured” meaning less interest in a Linux-specific event, there were a TON of people present. The show was packed. I haven’t seen official attendance numbers, but I’d say today was a healthy turnout. The IBM reception was absolutely packed. There were far too many parties going on to attend them all – I missed Vyatta’s unfortunately. There’s always tomorrow :)

Some things I have to write about soon: SystemTap (see LWN), OpenMoko (cool, but guys, the resolution is way to high), OLPC, IBM announcements, Desktop Linux, ODF, OIN and Google, Ubuntu (multiples here), POWER6 benchmarks, LSB thoughts, and more.

On another interesting note, I met Craig of Craigslist fame today.