[PLUG] LinuxFest Trip Report

[Keith Nasman]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:03:30PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> (cc. Bill Wright of Linuxfest)
> 
> On the PLUG mailing list, Russell Senior writes:
> > Anybody go, want to do a trip report?
> 
> 
> The talks were mostly good to very good, though there were only 
> 6 time slots and things got crowded in the 11 parallel sessions.
> I missed Rasmus Lerdorf's talk on PHP, which I'm told was the best
> talk.  I did see two extremely good talks, one by Chris Negus and
> Tom Weeks on Fedora / Redhat Troubleshooting (these guys needed
> another hour) and one by Brian Hatch on Linux Security.   I saw a
> talk that was merely "very good" by Tim Witteveen about the PNNL High
> performance Linux Cluster, and another by Charles Ditzel of Sun, mostly
> about Java Desktop,  a Sun Linux distro with Staroffice and Java and
> Netbeans built in (SunJD users in the audience thought highly of it). 
> 

I caught Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP talk. It was very good. He hit on some
basic PHP programming techniques and then went into benchmarking and
tuning. Given that the presenters were given about 45minutes for their
talks, he did a good job of moving through on a quick schedule.

His slides are at: http://talks.php.net/show/bellingham

I also went to the Shorewall presentation and it gave a nice
background on the firewall. I'm putting it on my list for future
experimenting.

I second Keith's call for moving to a larger venue, the main room was
very crowded. Having never been to a LinuxWorld size show, I was
impressed and would go again.

Keith Nasman