[penguicon-general] Anyone want to help bring me back to the Linux fold?

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 15 February 2007 5:18 pm, Matt Arnold wrote:
> I chose Ubuntu when I came on its website and read the motto "Linux
> For Human Beings".

You know, now that Cannonical (the company behind Ubuntu) and Linspire have 
partnered to do Linux multimedia codecs vendors can actually preinstall, Eric 
Raymond and I should probably do a panel on the 64 bit paper we did that 
helped get them talking to each other.

The paper is at 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html 
and it would be nice to have some kind of projector so we could put up tables 
and such from it.

Panel title: The 64-bit deadline: what comes after Windows.
Blurb:
In 2008, 32-bit hardware will fall off the cheap end of the market.  Once all 
new systems are 64-bit, the venerable Win-32 API goes the way of DOS, and a 
new 64-bit standard emerges.  Who are the contenders and what do they need to 
do to win desktop dominance?  Will we finally see Linux on the desktop, a 
working 64-bit version of Windows, or the rise of MacOS X?

> Then, for support of Flash, MP3 and other things that Linuxes tend not
> to deliver preinstalled, you need Automatix.
> http://www.getautomatix.com/

Not for long. :)

Rob
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