Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh

Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh 126

Posted by michael on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:13AM from the always-wanted-to-use-nigh-in-a-story-title dept.

steman writes "On the 10th of July 2003 LinuxTag begins, the largest Linux event in Europe. It will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Four days will be packed with up to 20,000 visitors, over 120 exhibitors (including more than 30 Free Software orientated projects such as FFII, BSD, KDE and Debian), coding marathon and many conferences (including specialist business and government conferences). Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free)."

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- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
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  - - - Re:SIR! U'R Link is BORKEN!! (Score:1, Troll)
        
        by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) writes:
        
        Sorry the blown out asshole is hell of alot sicker.
        
        Shit, it makes goatse look pleasing to the eye and alot less painfull.
Draws Nye? (Score:5, Funny)

by jmt9581 ( 554192 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:25AM (#6323592) Homepage

Europe's Largest Linux Event Draws Nigh

As in Bill Nye, the science guy? If so, I'm SO there. :P

- Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)
  
  by SlimFastForYou ( 578183 ) writes:
  
  Bah! I'm gonna wait for Mr. Wizard - that guy's a G!!! Him and Beakman!
  - Re:Draws Nye? (Score:2)
    
    by Randolpho ( 628485 ) writes:
    
    Wouldn't Beakman vs Bill Nye be the ultimate Celebrity Deathmatch? ;)
    - Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)
      
      by lilricky ( 632829 ) writes:
      
      Nah, the ultimate deathmatch:
      Dr. Bunsen Honeydew with his assistant Beeker vs Mr. Wizard and the kid of the week
- Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre! (Score:1, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Visit the RMLL [libresoftwaremeeting.org], the World largest Free Software Event. From 9 to 12th July in Metz, France!
  - Mod parent up! (Score:1, Informative)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    informative. The RMLL are not only the largest free software event in Europe, but the largest free software event in the world!
- Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)
  
  by SEWilco ( 27983 ) writes:
  
  Surely It Draws Nigh and Fires at Will.
- Re:Help, please! (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by acidrain69 ( 632468 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:31AM (#6323617) Journal
  
  repeat after me: orientate is not a word.
  Several eager asian men sigh, drop their heads, turn around, and drudge their way home.
  
- Re:Help, please! (Score:2, Insightful)
  
  by MisterBad ( 40316 ) writes:
  
  Hmm. Maybe your dict works differently than mine. Mine gives several definitions for orientate.
  
  That said, "Free Software-oriented projects" is probably the best spelling.
- Re:Help, please! (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Narcissus ( 310552 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:43AM (#6323650) Homepage
  
  Orientate is not a word? Tell that to dictionary.reference.com [reference.com] then. While you're at it, tell The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary and WordNet ® 1.6, all of which are quoted as saying that you're incorrect...
  
  - Re:Help, please! (Score:2)
    
    by 73939133 ( 676561 ) writes:
    
    It's a word alright, but it's not synonymous with "oriented". An event can be "Linux-oriented", but "Linux-orientated" is bad usage.
    - Re:Help, please! (Score:2)
      
      by JPMH ( 100614 ) writes:
      
      It's a word alright, but it's not synonymous with "oriented". An event can be "Linux-oriented", but "Linux-orientated" is bad usage.
      
      orient, v., orientate
      The second, a long variant (qv) of the first, seems likely to prevail in the common figurative use.
      -- Fowler, Modern English Usage, 2e
      (A standard reference on UK English)
      - Re:Help, please! (Score:2)
        
        by 73939133 ( 676561 ) writes:
        
        Just check on Google. For UK sites, the frequency of "work-oriented" vs. "work-orientated" is about 2:1, for Australia, it's 4:1. For the entire world, it's about 12:1 (and most of that usage is in the UK and Australia). Sounds like this is some odd British usage.
  - Re:Help, please! (Score:2, Funny)
    
    by BlightThePower ( 663950 ) writes:
    
    Whilst you are leafing through these tomes of knowledge, it might be a good idea for you to look up the following: "obvious" and "troll". "Orientate is not a word" is such an old troll that its got a beard and bus pass.
- Re:Help, please! (Score:1)
  
  by catbutt ( 469582 ) writes:
  
  What we have here is a thinking error Is the word "orientate" somehow illogical or something? I don't get how you can figure out a whether a word is a word just by thinking. The only thinking I'd imagine would be necessary would be to think to look in the dictionary. :)
- Orientate (Score:2)
  
  by cyber_rigger ( 527103 ) writes:
  
  Maybe it means that you farm out your software jobs to the Orient.
- Backformations are common (Score:1)
  
  by i don't care ( 569891 ) writes:
  
  Orientate is a backformation [bartleby.com] from "orientation." Some common words that have entered standard English as backformations are "burgle" from burglar, "televise" from television, and "enthuse" from enthusiasm.
- Re:Help, please! (Score:2)
  
  by alext ( 29323 ) writes:
  
  FWIW, "oriented" (in "object-oriented" etc.) was unknown in British English 15 years ago. My impression is that it is still pretty much confined to "object-oriented" here, and when travelling about people will still "try to orientate" themselves.
- Mod Parent down, -1 Illiterate (Score:2)
  
  by Czernobog ( 588687 ) writes:
  
  orient. 1. ... 2. ... 3. orientate (or or-) v.t &i., orient; ...
  from the Oxford Dictionary....
What? No SCO?? (Score:5, Funny)

by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:27AM (#6323598) Journal

I wonder why LinuxTag did not invite SCO? I can't imagine why.

- Re:What? No SCO?? (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by Hoch ( 603322 ) writes:
  
  The planners were going to email them, but feared that they might be using SCO owned code in the process.
cooperation with BSD (Score:4, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:28AM (#6323603)

It's good to see friendly cooperation with BSD in open source events like this.

clod (Score:2, Funny)

by trentfoley ( 226635 ) writes:

No matter how free the admission, I can't afford the transportation. You insensitive clod.

Plus, I don't want to leave the U.S.A. Who knows if I can make it back in.

P.S. 55DF4942184C9AE0 activation. You have your instructions.
- - Re:clod (Score:1)
    
    by trentfoley ( 226635 ) writes:
    
    I was offended by being moderated as "Troll" until I saw your reply.
- Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:1, Troll)
  
  by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) writes:
  
  The sad thing is your right.
  
  GPL is definetly a restice license just like a EULA. But its restrictiveness is not the same.
  
  BSD is purly free. I chose freedom. Freedom = BSD or public domain.
  
  Since RMS claimed that kde should be begging for forgiveness, maybe they should of stuck with a BSD style license.
  
  At least it would give an argument to call linux "linux" and not gnulinux.
  
  Only a few tools are gnu but because so many OSS writers put a gpl license on their programs to be popular, it creates an illusion
- Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:2)
  
  by albalbo ( 33890 ) writes:
  
  Bullshit. Stallman acknowledges BSD as a Free operating system.
  
  Perhaps he answered nearly every question with the same kind of response because he realised you really weren't getting it.
- Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:1)
  
  by jjgm ( 663044 ) writes:
  
  Assuming that you accept the FSF's gospel of What Is Free, you'll find that RMS already explicitly regards the BSD license as a free software license. Definitions here [gnu.org].
Elizabethan English (Score:4, Funny)

by ecloud ( 3022 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @02:51AM (#6323657) Homepage Journal

Shouldn't that be "draweth nigh"?

coding marathon (Score:5, Funny)

by jesler ( 683123 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @03:00AM (#6323685)

The Coding Marathon will be conducted in the Olympic spirit

Corrupt officials and steroid junkies welcome!

- Re:coding marathon (Score:2)
  
  by sultanoslack ( 320583 ) writes:
  
  "Competitors will be tested both before and after the competition to check that their caffiene levels are within an acceptable range. Expect the officials to be more pedantic this year, as everyone was disappointed when last year's gold medalist was stripped of his award after it was uncovered that he snuck 4 liters of Jolt into the event."
Good event (Score:3, Insightful)

by heironymouscoward ( 683461 ) writes: <heironymouscowar ... .com minus punct> on Sunday June 29, 2003 @03:08AM (#6323700) Journal

And a good occasion for gathering signatures against software patents in Europe.

- Re:Good event (Score:1)
  
  by Elektroschock ( 659467 ) writes:
  
  That's the use of FFII! http://www.ffii.org a powerful lobby group against IT regulation and for a free informational infrastructure.
Linux tag. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

Tag!

You're I.T.!
Free and free (Score:2)

by mutende ( 13564 ) writes:

Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free).

In my understanding, the spirit of the Free Software Foundation is mainly concerned with the freedom of software, not its price.
- Re:Free and free (Score:1)
  
  by cleber ( 141641 ) writes:
  
  You are right.
  Free in english means 'free as a beer" and "free as in freedom", but free software wants the "free as in freedom" definition...
- Re:Free and free (Score:1)
  
  by error26 ( 676245 ) writes:
  
  my good, STOP IT GUYS!!! you drive me mad. free access to information != free access to beer not english mothertongue != retarded individual be nice
- Re:Free and free (Score:2, Funny)
  
  by Gopal ( 584297 ) writes:
  
  To developer its free as in freedom. To the customer its "costs no money". And I also think that the americans made it free as in freedom. And that europeans could not care less witch "free" it is. As long as it dosnt cost money ;)
  - Re:Free and free (Score:1)
    
    by jdeking1 ( 309579 ) writes:
    
    And that europeans could not care less witch "free" it is. A witch?! If she weighs the same as a duck, I suppose we should burn her ... don't set her free!
[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:4, Informative)

by TheMidget ( 512188 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @03:37AM (#6323767)

On July 9 - 12, the Réunion Mondiales du Logiciel Libre [libresoftwaremeeting.org], the largest free software event worldwide will take place in Metz, France.
Press release here [libresoftwaremeeting.org]

- Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)
  
  by Peter Cooper ( 660482 ) writes:
  
  Haha, I really hope this [ed. note: no it isn't] becomes the next Slashdot meme to rival Beowulf clusters, hot grits, and Soviet Russia.
  - Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)
    
    by jdeking1 ( 309579 ) writes:
    
    Well, as long as they'll have hot grits, I'm there!
    
    Mmmm ... grits ...
- Re: (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
  Comment removed based on user account deletion
  - Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)
    
    by Old Wolf ( 56093 ) writes:
    
    Is it also the largest tag in Europe? I enjoyed ball tag in school, at the time, but now I shudder at the thought of having my freedoms infringed by playing "proprietary" tags.
- Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:2)
  
  by El Cabri ( 13930 ) writes:
  
  With the RMLL taking place in Metz (very close to Germany) in July 9-12, many people can probably attend both.
First Knoppix DVD to be released at Linuxtag (Score:4, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @03:41AM (#6323775)

LinuxTag '03 will have a special DVD for visitors, with the first DVD edition of Knoppix [knoppix.net] with 4GB of live linux.

- Re:First Knoppix DVD to be released at Linuxtag (Score:1)
  
  by zogger ( 617870 ) writes:
  
  Will knoppix include gnome now on this larger DVD? Or is it still KDE centric?
Oh my god... (Score:1)

by jx100 ( 453615 ) writes:

Squaresoft is releasing FF II as opensource!

Wait, do they mean the American or the Japanese one?
sigh... (Score:2)

by darkonc ( 47285 ) writes:

Best of all, in the spirit of the Free Software Movement, it will be largely free (entrance, and many conferences are free)."
Too bad airfare isn't free too..... (Western Canada -> Germany).
draws nigh? (Score:2)

by b17bmbr ( 608864 ) writes:

with what? photoshop? gimp? MSPAint? please do tell.
- Re:draws nigh? (Score:2)
  
  by Daniel Phillips ( 238627 ) writes:
  
  "with what? photoshop? gimp? MSPAint? please do tell."
  
  With the current moment. There's something to be confused about?
Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:3, Informative)

by alephnull42 ( 202254 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2003 @07:56AM (#6324239) Homepage Journal

For those visitors working on a tight budget, this pub in Karlsruhe has several different dishes (for vegetarians and carnivores) every day for 5 Euros, ask for the "Studi-Essen".

http://www.die-kippe.de/

I am not affiliated with these guys, I used to live in the town, still visit occasionally and am often stuck for somewhere to eat which is != pizza/chinese/kebab/burger.

- Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)
  
  by brgnever ( 685454 ) writes:
  
  Or you could eat at "Cafe Bleu" [cafe-bleu.de] same owner (I guess) and also 2,50 EUR (not 5 EUR as the previous poster stated - dude, remember to convert from DM to EUROs!) for the Studi-Essen.
  
  I am also not affiliated with these guys ... :)
  - Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)
    
    by jdeking1 ( 309579 ) writes:
    
    ... but do they have hot grits?
- Great... (Score:2)
  
  by xtermz ( 234073 ) writes:
  
  ...Thanks to you, this will be the first time a restaurant will be physically slashdotted...
  
  20,000 geeks all yelling for a beer and a sandwich.....
  - Re:Great... (Score:1)
    
    by RealUlli ( 1365 ) writes:
    
    ...Thanks to you, this will be the first time a restaurant will be physically slashdotted...
    If I'm in Karlsruhe on that weekend, I'll grab my digicam and photograph the event... :-)
    The pub in question has a capacity of about 50-100 seats...
    Cheers, Ulli
- Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)
  
  by giggls ( 110070 ) writes:
  
  Loks like you have been here at the time the Deutsche mark has been the official german currency.
  The old price was DM , while the new price is EUR 2.50
  Other recommendations for places to eat and simular stuff should be available on our local LUG-Site (http://www.karlsruhe.linux.de/ [linux.de]) when the event arises.
  Sven
Eternally grateful (Score:2)

by Daniel Phillips ( 238627 ) writes:

Oh, that's what it means? Thanks for rescuing me from my ignorance, I'll be eternally grateful.
I hope... (Score:1)

by MrTangent ( 652704 ) writes:

I hope Microsoft doesn't have their MS Cruise Missle 2003 aimed at the coordinates.
Instead of a coding marathon: (Score:2)

by master_p ( 608214 ) writes:

Why don't they have a "quality design" marathon ? The winner would be the one that produces the most quality design, following the Q&A rules most closely.
Whoa -- Hold up, everyone (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonamused Cow-herd ( 614126 ) writes:

Our great Leader, Mister Stallman, has informed me to come to each of your houses and forcefully remind you:

it should be GNU/Linuxtag
Expect me for "tea."
- Re:In Capitalist America (Score:1, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  The DEAD vote for YOU!!

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Re:SIR! U'R Link is BORKEN!! (Score:1, Troll)

Draws Nye? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)

Re:Draws Nye? (Score:2)

Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)

Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre! (Score:1, Informative)

Mod parent up! (Score:1, Informative)

Re:Draws Nye? (Score:1)

Re:Help, please! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2, Insightful)

Re:Help, please! (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Help, please! (Score:1)

Orientate (Score:2)

Backformations are common (Score:1)

Re:Help, please! (Score:2)

Mod Parent down, -1 Illiterate (Score:2)

What? No SCO?? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What? No SCO?? (Score:2, Funny)

cooperation with BSD (Score:4, Interesting)

clod (Score:2, Funny)

Re:clod (Score:1)

Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:1, Troll)

Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:2)

Re:Stallman would be really mad ... (Score:1)

Elizabethan English (Score:4, Funny)

coding marathon (Score:5, Funny)

Re:coding marathon (Score:2)

Good event (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Good event (Score:1)

Linux tag. (Score:1, Funny)

Free and free (Score:2)

Re:Free and free (Score:1)

Re:Free and free (Score:1)

Re:Free and free (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Free and free (Score:1)

[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:4, Informative)

Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)

Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)

Re: (Score:2, Informative)

Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:1)

Re:[ed. note: no it isn't] (Score:2)

First Knoppix DVD to be released at Linuxtag (Score:4, Informative)

Re:First Knoppix DVD to be released at Linuxtag (Score:1)

Oh my god... (Score:1)

sigh... (Score:2)

draws nigh? (Score:2)

Re:draws nigh? (Score:2)

Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:3, Informative)

Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)

Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)

Great... (Score:2)

Re:Great... (Score:1)

Re:Tip for Eating Out in Karlsruhe (Score:1)

Eternally grateful (Score:2)

I hope... (Score:1)

Instead of a coding marathon: (Score:2)

Whoa -- Hold up, everyone (Score:2, Funny)

Re:In Capitalist America (Score:1, Funny)

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