Linuxtag 2007

kth5 · 2007-06-01 19:05:55

pjeremy wrote:

Any word yet on where it's going to be 2008?

Same location but when is not clear yet. Berlin makes much more sense community wise than the previous choices we went through the last two times. I bet everyone here at the booth agrees that a week here does not need to be more expensive than 50EUR as opposed to like 150EUR in the last places. Also, Berlin has more sights geeks actually want to see.

JGC · 2007-06-01 19:41:18

Linuxtag 2008 will take place in Berlin, same place, no date yet. The linuxtag staff already decided about having this location. ICC berlin is quite good, but things have to be arranged in time.

funkyou · 2007-06-02 12:06:59

The best thing for me on Linuxtag was this talk, where Matthias Ettrich (KDE), Larry Ewing (Gnome) and some Ubuntu guy discussed the future of the linux desktop.

At some point of the discussion, a listener asked them the following question:

"What can i do if i want to have always the latest software, as a package?? I have to compile it myself or wait for the next release, which is both painfull, especially in terms of fixed bugs etc. So what can we do about this issue??"

All three gave the same answer:

"Well, uhm, thats technically impossible until now, because we have to deal with a lot of libs and dependencies etc. If we would do this, we would break a lot of stuff..."

I wonder if they ever heard about Arch

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-06-02 13:10:24

You were there and did _not raise your hand?

hussam · 2007-06-02 13:19:38

funkyou wrote:

The best thing for me on Linuxtag was "Well, uhm, thats technically impossible until now, because we have to deal with a lot of libs and dependencies etc. If we would do this, we would break a lot of stuff..."
I wonder if they ever heard about Arch

Yes, but you have to remember that even with ArchLinux, you constantly have to rebuild packages when their dependencies are upgraded, so it is basically the same issue.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-06-02 13:24:57

Yeah, but we have an advantage, since we use the rolling release system. We are not forced to stick to - for instance - some certain version of gcc. So we can continuously advance in regard of package versions.

AndyRTR · 2007-06-06 11:58:29

more pictures now avalable: http://archlinux.org/~alexander/LT2007/

and http://archlinux.org/~tpowa/LT-2007/

Sigi · 2007-06-06 12:06:22

What's this??

AndyRTR · 2007-06-06 12:13:00

Never seen StarWars?

Sigi · 2007-06-06 12:15:18

Was it a Linux or a StarWars convention? :confused:

AndyRTR · 2007-06-06 12:56:14

must have been apeiro icognito...

STiAT · 2007-06-13 17:32:24

funkyou wrote:

The best thing for me on Linuxtag was this talk, where Matthias Ettrich (KDE), Larry Ewing (Gnome) and some Ubuntu guy discussed the future of the linux desktop.

I've read a little about this, and must say what they said there is actually what i like. Presentation is one thing, but work together on the underlying systems as much as they can. This ensures that - which desktop you ever like better, you have the same underlying system, and within this the same support for hardware and especially external devices, what will lead to better and more complete software in the end.

Arch Linux

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