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[svlug] Linux Expo (fwd)





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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:46:09 +0000
From: Don Marti <dmarti@electriclichen.com>
To: balug-talk@balug.org, svlug@svlug.org, nil@agdia.com
Subject: [svlug] Linux Expo

Linux users,

I'm home from Linux Expo so I thought I would share some highlights of
the conference.


Best Reverse Engineer
	Alan Cox et al., Macintosh 68k port.  (He pointed out that
	refusing to release hardware info doesn't prevent people porting
	Linux to your machine, it just makes your reputation worse.)


Best "Marketing Project" consisting of > 100,000 lines of code
	Jaques Gelinas, Linuxconf


Best Linux Internationalization
	Red Hat Software, for "Redneck" mode in the 5.1 installation.
	
>From the manual: The "Redneck" language entry represents a dialect of
American English spoken by Red Hat Software's Donnie Barnes, and was
used as a test case during the addition of internationalization
support to the installation program.  It is included solely for
entertainment value (and to illustrate how difficult it is actually
talking to Donnie.)


Worst Career Prediction
	Linus Torvalds, for thinking he would grow up to program celluar
	phones for Nokia, "because that's what people in Finland do."


Best constructive use of a program from rootshell.com
	Simon Horman for a very interesting ARP trick in "Creating
	Redundant Servers in Linux"


Best badass closed-mouthed confidential additude (tie)
	H. Peter Anvin
	Dan Quinlan


Best religious regalia
	Richard Stallman, Saint in the Church of Emacs


Best pointless argument 
	Richard Stallman and some random software hoarder in the audience,
	Free Software Licensing Panel.