Linux Expo 1999

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Creation: Thursday June 17th 1999 by Hubert Figuière
Last Update: Monday July 13th 1999

Here are some pictures I took with my digital camera, Kodak DC-240 that now runs with gPhoto.

Other reports:

• http://adequat.c2a.fr/static/Expo/xpo/index.html
• http://www.linux-kheops.com/manif/linux-expo/thumb/thumb1.htm

Thursday 17th June 1999

Welcome!

Just arrived, I met friends that work at Adequat, an IBM VAR and integrator that begins on the Linux market with IBM PowerPC workstations under Linux.

IBM booth, presenting Linux on IBM hardware.

RedHat software booth at the beginning of the expo (later it was crowded, trust me).

The bar at RedHat booth.

SuSe booth, with penguins everywhere. I bought them one at IT Comdex Paris in february 1999. The are demoing SuSe Linux 6.1.

O'Reilly France booth with Sébastien Blondeel, prince du SGML

O'Reilly booth. The french version of the Open Source book from O'Reilly was available.

Login: (aka Dream), a magazine about alternative computing that talks about Linux, *BSD, BeOS, RISC PC, Amiga and anything else not coming from Microsoft.

Free Software Foundation and APRIL booth.

Corel booth, presenting WordPerfect 8 for Linux and promising Corel Office suite 2000 for this year.

Caldera presenting Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.

Linux Magazine France, and French magazine talking about Linux.

Oracle was there presenting their server under Linux.

HP was showing Linux solution around their product with the help from Medasys. The good news is that we will be able to buy their product without Windows but Linux (and also without any OS).

The AFUL (Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et du Logiciel Libre: French Linux and Free Software Users Association) was here along with other lugs.

Stéphane Fermigier, AFUL's president.

Eric Dumas (on the left) a Linux kernel specialist and long time Linux advocate, and Olivier Tharan, coordinator of the French LDP.

Tux standing on a monitor on SuSe booth.

An Alpha workstation on Samsung's booth.

Another Alpha workstation elsewhere, still running Linux.

Some students at Ecole Centrale de Paris wrote a MPEG 2 decoder (by software) with a server broadcasting MPEG stream over ATM. The project is called VideoLAN A good sample of digital video broadcasting on IP. (sorry the picture is not really good).