2003.12_Linux Expo Uk-Report on the London Linux Expo.pdf

Linux Expo UK

COMMUNITY

Olympic Linux Games

When .ORG meets business, when

Linux Professional Institute attended

the show and offered exams at a special

discount. According to Wilma Silber-

mann of the LPI it was great to see that

so many people were interested and took

exams. She also said that she had pro-

ductive discussions about setting up a

UK affiliate. Linux Professional Institute

offers Linux certification across the

world, in multiple languages.

gurus teach newbies, when suits

meet geeks, then it’s Linux Expo time.

For the fifth year, people came

together at London Olympia to look

at the latest products and projects of

the Linux world. BY HEIKE JURZIK

The Latest Buzz

Several projects presented new versions

of their software. The Dasher team has

not been idle in recent months and pre-

viewed new features which will be

included in the upcoming stable release.

Dasher is no longer just a text-entry

interface, as it now allows you to control

other applications and access their

menus.

Talking to SuSE allowed us to take a

closer look at their upcoming 9.0 release.

As well as the new look and feel of YaST,

SuSE’s system assistant comes with new

modules to help beginners set up Samba,

DHCP, Apache etc. Probably the best fea-

ture of the new SuSE Linux 9.0 is that

you can now resize NTFS partitions (as

used on Windows 2000 and XP) with the

help of the installation tool (see Software

News, page 6).

Jason Clifford from UK Free Software

Network (UKFSN) handed over a cheque

to the Association For

Free Software (AFFS).

UKFSN is an ISP dedi-

cated to the users of

Free Software in the UK.

UKFSN was launched at

Linux Expo 2002 and

promised that all profits

they make will be used

to fund Free Software

projects in the UK. Jason

gave this year’s money

(£500.00) to the AFFS,

so that they can decide

how to spend it and

which projects are to be

supported.

and visitors got together at the

Olympia Exhibition Centre, Lon-

don, UK. The Expo claims to be the UK’s

largest Linux exhibition and conference

and brings together business, the Com-

munity and interested members of the

public.

It wasn’t a purely corporate event.

In the .ORG Village, sponsored by

UKLINUX.NET and Linux Magazine, the

“usual suspects” were to be found, pre-

senting and discussing the latest free

software developments and products.

Among the .ORG Village exhibitors were

GNU/Linux and BSD distributions, user

groups, campaigns and organizations.

The visitors obviously appreciated the

Community’s presence, since the .ORG

Village stands were always busy.

Figure 2: Jason Clifford handing the check over to

Mark Ray from AFFS

It is amazing that after more than 10

years of Linux there are still people turn-

ing up to ask questions such as “I’ve just

heard about this Linux thing – could you

tell me what it’s all about?” This con-

stant influx of beginners demonstrates

the continued growth of Linux’s popular-

ity.

Shows like Linux Expo present the per-

fect opportunity for newcomers to talk to

those in the know and discover the

breadth of environments in which Linux

is being used: from embedded to main-

frame, from desktop to server, from

voluntary sector to high finance.

In addition to the visitors, the many

volunteers in the .ORG village show that

there are still enough enthusiastic con-

tributors to keep the ball rolling, and to

come and tell people about it – keep up

the good work!

INFO

Figure 1: Hacking the show away

[1] Conference Info:

http://www.linuxexpo.co.uk/

[2] Linux Expo 2003 .ORG Village:

http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/

[3] Linux Professional Institute:

http://www.lpi.org/

[4] UK Free Software Network:

http://www.ukfsn.org/

[5] Association For Free Software:

http://www.affs.org.uk/

www.linux-magazine.com December 2003

Linux Expo UK 2003 in London, Olympia

F rom 8th to 9th October exhibitors

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