LinuxTag 2007

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General Info

Linuxtag is the biggest fair about Linux in germany, this year it will be in Berlin 30.05 - 02.06.2007.

openSUSE/Novell booth

We had a booth with 2x openSUSE and 1x SLE system.

Booth team (whole fair): Henne, Christoph Thiel, Adrian, Martin Lasarsch.

Pictures

A collection of pictures is available on our Gallery, from openSUSE day, various social events in the evenings, and pictures of persons related to openSUSE / SUSE in general.

openSUSE day

Wednesday 30.05.2007 is openSUSE day! We had a lot of interesting talks, all talks were in german.

Time Topic Description Presenter Slides
10:00 The openSUSE project Why did Novell start the openSUSE project? What is different from other projects? Get a short overview of our motivations and plans for the future of the openSUSE project as well as tell us your opinions and discuss with us where openSUSE can go in the future. Martin Lasarsch

german

10:30 Looking ahead to openSUSE 10.3 openSUSE 10.3 will be the next openSUSE distribution release.

AJ reviewed what major features will be in it and how to deliver a stable with lots of new software.

Andreas Jaeger

german

11:00 openSUSE Build Service Overview Introduction into the openSUSE Build Service, why it was created, what are the goals it wants to achieve and a brief overview about its components. Adrian Schroeter
12:00 Photomanagement with Linux A user view on the photomanagement abilities of openSUSE 10.2, with an demo to hotplugging, digikam and f-spot. Marcus Meissner

german paper

15:00 Suspend to disk and to RAM Everything you never wanted to know about suspend Stefan Seyfried

german

16:00 Linux on Laptops Power management, wireless networks and fingerprint authentication Timo Hoenig
17:00 openSUSE on the PS3 Hardware Setup of the PS3, installations of openSUSE, restrictions. Patrick Kirsch

german

Other Talks

Date+Time Topic Description Presenter Slides
Thu 15:00 compiz: The Next Generation Linux Desktop The base system 3D desktops are using for their effects, some of its plugins, and its history. Matthias Hopf

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