LinuxPlanet: LinuxWorld Expo New Haven for Corporate Users, Vendors

“I explained some of the fundementals of X, what window managers
were, what desktop environments were about, that sort of thing. I
showed him Mozilla, and KOffice, and more of Evolution. He asked
about an office suite he heard ran on Linux, and I told him that
was OpenOffice.org. I surfed over to that site as I was explaining
what OO was, and said that while I had not installed it yet on this
machine, I used it at home and thought it handled most Office docs
pretty well.

“‘You know, I had heard they could get Linux to run on anything,
so I guess that’s true,’ he said, sitting back. I glanced at his
name tag: Rob K-something or other–I just caught a glimpse. Before
I could ask his name and occupation, he was up off the bench,
thanking me and telling me he had a meeting to attend. (I think he
saw my media badge and got edgy–or maybe it was what I’d eaten for
lunch.)

“This conversation, though, sticks out in my memories of last
week’s LinuxWorld Expo, which are all a blur of press briefings,
booth visits, and conversations held while walking down the aisles
through crowds of people. It sticks out because Rob was someone who
was clearly new to Linux, eager to engage total strangers to learn
about it…”

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