Found some old pics - LinuxWorld 1999 - Day 3 - 08/10/1999

[mjbtn]

Don't know that any one of you even cares to look at any of these, but here they are nonethe less! :) I recall at the time thinking, "Wow! All this just for Linux?!??". Of course, the next day, 08/11/1999, was the day Red Hat's IPO hit Wall Street. Because I had taken so many shots on Day 3, I didn't bother lugging around my trusty Kodak DC260 digital camera (a bit of a brick by today's standards). Most unfortunate that I didn't, though, as the place was swarming all around the Red Hat booth. And, I missed a great photo op with Linus himself over by the Hard Hat Linux /  MontaVista Software booth. In looking back through these now, over 2 decades later, what has come out of the Linux world is nothing short of mindboggling! We went back to LinuxWorld 2003 at Macone Center in San Francisco, and the massively expanded grandeur of that 2003 event over the 1999 one proved beyond a shadow that Linux's ship had indeed arrived big time. At any length, I thought that someone besides just me might enjoy some blasts from the past, that in truth, really doesn't seem like so long ago. Time flies when you're having fun, eh?! :)

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[Jack Coats]

I wasn't there... but thanks for rekindling some ol memories!

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[Curt Lundgren]

Those were the days!  I attended a LinuxWorld in the Moscone Center, don't remember the year.  What impressed me more than anything else was the preponderance of MacBook Pros being lugged around by all my fellow geeks.  They ran Unix, after all, and you could get under the hood in terminal or xterm so easily.

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Don't know that any one of you even cares to look at any of these, but here they are nonethe less! :) I recall at the time thinking, "Wow! All this just for Linux?!??". Of course, the next day, 08/11/1999, was the day Red Hat's IPO hit Wall Street. Because I had taken so many shots on Day 3, I didn't bother lugging around my trusty Kodak DC260 digital camera (a bit of a brick by today's standards). Most unfortunate that I didn't, though, as the place was swarming all around the Red Hat booth. And, I missed a great photo op with Linus himself over by the Hard Hat Linux /  MontaVista Software booth. In looking back through these now, over 2 decades later, what has come out of the Linux world is nothing short of mindboggling! We went back to LinuxWorld 2003 at Macone Center in San Francisco, and the massively expanded grandeur of that 2003 event over the 1999 one proved beyond a shadow that Linux's ship had indeed arrived big time. At any length, I thought that someone besides just me might enjoy some blasts from the past, that in truth, really doesn't seem like so long ago. Time flies when you're having fun, eh?! :)

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[da...@wwns.com]

Wow,

Even a picture of the Caldera booth before they became suicidal.

Dave

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[Mark J. Bailey]

LOL, I was thinking the same thing, Dave! :) Like young Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, could I have known what evil lay within (that booth)?? :)

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[Mark J. Bailey]

OK, so you too have experienced the Big League venue. Since the previous one we had attended was the 1999 one in San Jose, we came totally under-dressed for the occasion! We walked into Mascone in shorts, T-shirts ball caps and tennis shoes, and were greeted by almost everyone being in suits, pant suits or some other form of elevated business attire! :) You knew immediately that Big Business had hijacked the event! I couldn't believe things had accelerated so much in just a few years' time. Says a lot, I guess. But even then, I don't think anyone there would've dared fathomed where it has ended up today.

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[Marvin Johnson]

Thanks for sharing the photos. This brings back a lot of memories for me. The two vendors that stood out to me the most are Caldera and Sybase. Despite Caldera's latter shenanigans, Open Linux 1.x still holds a special place in my heart because it was my first distro and included KDE 1.0. I still use KDE 24 years later. 

Marvin

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