[Nottingham] NEC Linux Expo

[Mike]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:14, Philip Scott wrote:
> Greetings!
> The expo was great :) Lots of people, lots of talks, stands etc.. A good day 
> out!
> > Out of curiousity were there any stands by
> > Lugs
> Aye, there was the UK Unix Users group (if that counts) and the local one, I 
> forget the name :)
> > Debian
> A whole horde of them, with some ipaqs that they'd taken apart and installed 
> debian on for a laugh :)
> > Kde
> To be sure, I was helping out on the stand. 'twas right next door to the 
> debian guys, and we recieved lots of interest - mostly business people 
> getting excictied about the new koffice access clone (kexi)
any idea on the status of this - ie: is it usable or yet another
pre-alpha db project

> > Gnome
> None to be seen, although there was a solitary fellow from ximian who came and 
> said hello..

probably Michael Meeks (usually to be seen carrying ximian monkeys)

> All in all, a very intesting experience - I went to the 2.6 kernel talk by our 
> dear Alan Cox, which was good - apparently in 2.6 you'll be able to ban 
> applications from e.g. using the network, whenever they access certain files 
> (e.g. your credit card details :) All exciting stuff. And I was working with 
> a guy who writes articles for Linux Format (Jono Bacon)
> 
> Regards,
> 	Philip
> 
> 
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