LinuxWorld Expo day 2&3
…, actually I wanted to blog about LWE last week, but somehow I didn’t had the time to do it. So, now that I’m back in Nuremberg since Monday night and already pretty much got over the jetlag (surprisingly it wasn’t that bad again), it’s time to write down some thoughts.
First of all day 2 and 3 on LinuxWorld Expo wasn’t very different from the first day ;) Again, we had lots of positive feedback and great discussions. The people that showed up at the booth were quite happy with what we told them about openSUSE and the goals and visions we have. To me it was very interesting to hear that some people switch from SUSE to Debian (and other
distros as well) when Novell acquired SUSE 18 months ago. However, the reasons for switch didn’t have anything to do with technical features or something like that. Now, with openSUSE, they are switching back to SUSE, because it’s no longer awkward to admit using SUSE Linux.
After LinuxWorld Expo I spent some nice days in San Francisco. Together with a colleague I rode the bike to the Golden Gate Bridge and later to Golden Gate Park, which was really amazing. The weather was perfect - sunny and quite warm - we just somehow forgot to take the appropriate actions (like using sun lotion). Therefore I got a very bad sunburn on my arms and in the face ;) I’m still suffering from that. On Saturday and Sunday I did some sight seeing in San Francisco, walking from Union Square (where I stayed in the hotel) to Fishermans Wharf and taking the Cable Care back was fun.
On my flight back to Germany I had the pleasure to use Lufthansa FlyNet, i.e. access the internet on-board the plane. Actually a “flatrate” for the whole flight would have costed me $ 29.99, but I managed to get a promotion code to use FlyNet for free.