Jonathan Corbet gives us his first-hand impressions.
Interesting tidbits:
“Bob Young’s keynote was given to a mostly-empty hall.”
“Tim O’Reilly… called for more electronic commerce tools to be
written in a free software mode,… stressed the importance of XML
as “the ASCII of the future,” and admonished developers… free
software applications should run on things like Palm Pilots and
Playstations.”
“the folks at Watchguard, who installed a tap and were handing
out full glasses of beer to all who wandered by.”
“LinuxCare’s swag includes a poster which, in a parody of the
3Com ad, shows, from the rear, a seated lady wearing only a red bra
and holding a Red Hat 6.0 box behind her back.”