LinuxWorld Boston 2005

Darn, this shot missed the humanoid penguin greeters. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Ben Brenker of Motifzone.org sports an Egenera tri-corner hat. As in, Boston, colonialists, the Brits are coming. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

As SourceForge.net celebrated the 1 million mark for registered users of its open-source software development site, VA Software CTO Colin Bodell said that the projects theyre seeing are now getting pretty doggone sophisticated: CRM, ERP and word processi

Egenera, a utility computing company, plunked tri-corner colonialist hats on people. This is Boston, right? And thats where the Revolution started, get it? And Egenera has a Freedom Trail to operating system liberation in the data center. Get it? Get it?

AMD?s booth generated its own gravity as the chip maker attempts to suck enterprises into Linux via blade mania. It was orbited by a constellation of vendors with multi-way Opteron boxes, including Angstrom Microsystems, Appro and Rackable Systems. (SOURC

The little furry devils are taking over the world. Did someone say Firefox has been downloaded 25 million times? Oh, my, IE, oh, my. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Zoo New Englands Director of Information Services Kenneth Fung says that the organization has got to update about half of its servers, and this time out, Microsoft will not be a knee-jerk decision. Talk about making do with less: The nonprofit organizati

Change is Good, HPs signage read, but were sure that has nothing to do with recent shifts on the executive level. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Slashdot.org VP of Editorial Operations Jeff Bates says the myth of open-source developers all being 17-year-old kids surrounded by pizza boxes as they work in basements is way off the mark. Most are professional software developers, in their late 20s or

Scale out for less, Intel says on this flashy little piece of see-through yumminess, a demonstration of Intel chips scaling IBMs DB2 for Linux. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Director of Linux Engineering Wim Coekaerts says that the newly launched Linux Test Lab is Oracles way of making sure the company simulates what Linux is up against in the real world, instead of just focusing on running Oracle on Linux, as the company ha

If the mission was to have a big booth, mission accomplished. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Red Hat reveled in the Red Sox glow. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

Angstrom showed off 8-way Opteron processors in its OctaBlade blades. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)

From the Stating the Glaringly Obvious Department. (SOURCE: eWEEK.com)