[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Linux World Wrapup

[jam@McQuil.Com]

LinuxWorld wrapup

This past week, August 4th-7th, we were at Linux World in
San Francisco, to work the LTSP.org booth in the .org Pavilion.

We've been to many LinuxWorld conferences, and it just
keeps getting better for us.

Probably the biggest highlight this time was the fact
that LTSP won the Linux World 'Best Open Source Project' award.
We were among very tough competion, including OpenOffice.org,
KDE and Oracle's Cluster File System.

We also held a press conference on Wednesday morning, to announce
the availability of LTSP-4.  It's made it out of alpha stage into
beta.  The LTSP packages are very stable, but the installer and the
ltspcfg tool need some testing, to make sure they are ready for
prime time.

Wednesday afternoon, I spoke at a conference session on deploying
LTSP, and we had an audience of almost 100 people. Things went very
well, and I had lots of great questions from the audience at the
end.

Wednesday night, we had our traditional LTSP dinner at a local
restaurant.  17 of us enjoying lots of beer and great food.

There was more interest in LTSP than at any previous conference.

Among the great press we received was an entry in Andy Oram's weblog.
Andy is an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, and he had some great
things to say about LTSP, including:

     The testimonials by LTSP adopters, even if they are
     unusually enthusiastic, suggest to me a potentially
     industry-shaking role for LTSP that goes even beyond
     the disruptive potential of Linux itself.  All it
     takes is the presence a single educated and intrepid
     system administrator (because more and more of them
     are becoming comfortable with Linux) for an organization
     to make the switch.

And, this quote also in Andy's weblog:

     The LTSP press conference was attended by one of the
     fathers of the X Window System, Jim Gettys, who said
     that LTSP was fulfilling the promise that Project
     Athena and other networked solutions proposed decades
     ago.

You can see the whole weblog here:

   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3618


As usual, we saw lots of old friends, and made lots of new
friends at Linux World.  I can't wait for the next one, that
is coming up in New York city, the week of January 19-23, 2004.
Mark that in your calendars.  I'll be putting out a call for
volunteers later, and if you can make it for the week, or even
just for a few hours, i'm sure you'll have lots of fun.

So, a special thanks goes out to all those who helped make
Linux World - San Francisco - 2003 a great event for us:

   Jim Glutting, Ron Colcernian, Erick Tyack, Leslie Proctor,
   Eric Harrison, Jason Straw, Marlon Dutra, Andre Franciosi,
   Derek Dresser, Chris Duchesne, Matt Duchesne, Tim Frichtel,
   Stevn Bartley, Marty Connor, Peter, Markus Gueschke,
   Adrian Solaises and Julius Szelagiewicz.

Jim McQuillan
jam@Ltsp.org