Vyatta – Linux & Open Source Alternative to Cisco – Advanced Routing, Firewall, VPN, QoS..
Free Download ->

LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2008

openSUSE and the distribution of proprietary software

Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ

Major Tech Companies to Sponsor Desktop Linux Summit 2003

[Posted October 24, 2002 by cook]

Lindows.com, Inc. has announced their sponsorship of a conference called the Inaugural Desktop Linux Summit, which will be held in San Diego on Feb 20-21, 2003. "The Summit will be the first event entirely devoted to desktop Linux and will be hosted by the top executives of leading technology companies worldwide including Codeweavers, Hewlett Packard, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, Sun Microsystems, SuSE, and Ximian. Key political and open source community advocates have also confirmed their place at the Desktop Linux Summit."

(Log in to post comments)

IBM missing

Posted Oct 24, 2002 17:14 UTC (Thu) by subhasroy (guest, #325) [Link]

I expected IBM to be a sponsor
considering they are the highest profile
Linux backer among the bug companies.

IBM missing

Posted Oct 24, 2002 21:07 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

There seem to be suggestions that IBM is only interested in Linux as a server platform; at least, they haven't seemed that eager to port their tools (e.g. Lotus Notes) to Linux, and they don't seem much concerned about Linux support on their laptops.