Re: [TCLUG:925] Hmm, anyone remember the Linux conference?

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

The guy from IBM was using fvwm95 on his laptop.  Did anyone else see the
little yellow star icon next to his "Start" button?  So he was running X,
and probably Linux.  He had already returned to his seat when the Linux
compatibility question was asked.  But, all that aside, I didn't hear him
mention Linux either.

Chris Kesler

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Ed Bertsch wrote:
> 
> > Did these fancy boxes from IBM explicitly support linux, especially
> > in their multi-cpu configurations? Or was this just an opportunity
> > for this guy to do his speil in front of a bunch of people? His
> > presentation had nothing to do with Linux...
> 
> He never did mention Linux one way or another, and said nothing about the
> machines working with Linux. I think someone tried to ask him that, but I
> think he didn't know or something. (He was clearly ignorant of technical
> issues, and reading the specs off the sheet in a voice that let me know he
> didn't understand fully what he was reading. "And, ahh...4 uh, Xeon
> processors, ehh, up to 1 gigabyte of Ess Dee RAM...")
> 
> heh heh Poor dude. :)
> 
> > If it takes paying admission to avoid this sort of silliness in
> > the future, count me as one willing to pay the admission.
> 
> Ennh, I dunno. While it was a waste of time to sit there watching him, I
> also hate paying money to be advertised to (which is what Brian Sparks was
> doing, even if he is cool).
> 
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