[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Fair

[Robert Citek]

On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 01:39  PM, Chris Cox wrote:
> Rick Cook is planning on bringing his G4 duallie and possibly a
> Powerbook 3400c and maybe even an iBook.

I'll bring my PowerBook G4.

> I'll have my Cappucino G1 (http://www.saintsong.com) running
> SUSE 9. The embedded stuff is done on SFF boards as well.

Nice.  I've never seen one of these.  I could not find the G1.  Did you 
mean the GX1:
   http://www.saintsong.com/english/products/Cappuccino/gx1/all-cgx1.htm
I assume yours does not have the CD or DVD.

> I may bring my Cyclades TS2000 unit... it's definitely a
> required piece of equipment for any datacenter.

Very nice:
   http://www.cyclades.com/products/2/ts_series

> Concurrently... like a mini-conference.  The trick is getting to a 
> chair
> to sit and talk with the person demonstrating... otherwise, you can
> usually hover and ask questions as well.

... with followups on this list, no doubt.

> I'll probably bring an inkjet HP 850C (a bit old... but a good
> workhorse... for an inkjet).  I probably won't bring my scanner,
> and I'm not sure if anyone else is bringing one.  I will have
> a plethora of Windoze SW installed and working, including
> Office 2000, Visio, maybe PhotoShop.  Also will have several
> Windows games... I think about 15 or so... including UT2004,
> though the Linux version plays better than the Windows one (duh).

On what will the Windows software be running, on Windows or VMWare on 
Linux?  Both would be good to truly demonstrate how Linux can 
interoperate with Windows.

> My SMP machine will be networked with my Cappuccino and my laptop.
> I guess I'll setup some file sharing stuff... and I'll have lots
> of VMware examples as well (if you just have to see Windows
> working with all of it).

Yup.  I do want to see Windows working with all of it.  And OS X 
working with all of it, too.  I am imagining a scenario where some 
local government official or small business leader came up to me and 
said "Robert, this Linux stuff is nice and all.  But we have already 
invested a lot of time and money in hardware, software, and training.  
We simply cannot afford to dump all that and switch to Linux.  That's 
why we are staying the course with Windows."  To which I would like to 
reply, "You don't have to dump all that.  Linux plays nicely with 
Windows as I saw demonstrated at the last Linux Fair.  For example, I 
saw Chris and others demonstrate {blah, blah, blah}.  For more details, 
check out their website www.ntlug.org or contact Chris directly."

> Obviously I'll have the good non-Microsoft stuff too... OpenOffice
> and Mozilla.  I'm running Mozilla 1.6 currently.

Have you tried Mozilla's Firefox, the sequel to Mozilla's Firebird?  
Was just released the other day.  Runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, and 
probably others:
   http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

> I'm not stealing the show though... I just don't know the full
> details of what everyone else is bringing.

There's more?  What are the others bringing?  No need to hold back now. 
  This is great stuff.

Regards,
- Robert