LinuxFest NW 2009
The third annual LinuxFest NW was held at Bellingham Technical College again this year. Denise and I manned the FreeBSD / PC-BSD booths and had a great time demonstrating the new Galileo Edition of PC-BSD. I was surprised at the amount of BSD enthusiasts that came to LinuxFest NW. I wonder why so many shows are Linux-centric. LinuxWorld caught on and renamed their show to OpenSourceWorld; let’s hope to see more of that in the future!
Our booth was next to the folks behind Mer Linux, a linux distro for mobile devices based on Ubuntu. They also demonstrated Linux on the Wii for fun. Everyone came to our booth for the horns, but left with a DVD, a t-shirt, and some stickers as well. We passed out all of our horns, Galileo Edition DVDs, and even some Fibonacci Edition DVDs.
The first day of the show 778 people were in attendance, which means we will need far more DVDs and horns for LinuxFest next year…
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James T. Nixon III
Lol, I know right!?
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Matt Olander
Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT
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alan
One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
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Shaul
I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.