Fedora in LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005
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Written by Luya Tshimbalanga on 2005-08-14
LinuxWorld (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/) is over. Mainstream presses covered up essential events but what about Fedora Core? Inside the second floor of Moscone West Center was located Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com) booth aside NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/) with its now famous Toaster (http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm).
The exposition of Fedora consisted of hardware such as Pogo Linux (http://www.pogolinux.com/) Altura 939 Workstation (http://www.pogolinux.com/cgi-bin/systemconfigurator.cgi?system=Altura939) powered by dual-core AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ and a Mac Mini. Both runs Fedora Core 4. However, the Mac Mini got a lot of attractions as many people were surprised to hear that hardware actually runs Fedora Core 4 within the monitor featuring a modified version of the default background.
The booth also provided the x86 DVD versions of Fedora Core 4 that were all gone during the whole LinuxWorld event. A technical support for laptops were aprovided from the developers which is a testament that Fedora is a community project. Topics from Fedora Extras repository to Java in Fedora (http://people.redhat.com/green/linuxworldfreej.pdf) were covered during the exposition and the Bird of Feather event on the second day of LinuxWorld.
There were visit for some staff from different project. Some of them were from Mozilla Foundation (http://www.mozilla.org/) (Asa Dotzler), Helix Communites (http://helixcommunity.org/) to name a few. A Pixar (http://www.pixar.com/) employee were even among the visitor confirming their use of Fedora Core for their developement.
The statistic about the visitors inside Fedora Booth is summarized on this Karsten Wade's blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/iquaid/6006.html). Overall the booth was a tremendous success. I would like to thank the whole Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) developers, Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com) staff and many people from the Linuxworld for this great experience on Fedora booth.
