I attended all three days of the conference. I gave the "Linux Desktop" session on the second day. And I showed off phaeronix at the mini-expo on the third day.
The whole confrence was a quite good, and everyone was a star. We even got some TV ( el-mehwar channel I think ) and paper reporters. Isn't there anyone following the media coverage?
Despite all the hiccups that ascertain Murphy's law and that computers are unreliable, breaking down just when you need them, it turned out just fine.
The laptop I had prepared with lots of software for my session refused to render to the projector at proper resolution. So I had to quickly setup half the number of programs on a slower laptop. Anyway the 20 minutes session was barely enough for the smaller collection.
I was also, due to the same reason above, forced to show a bigger share of KDE apps, and all the arguing about GNOME became useless. I did however mention the alternatives, and showed the GNOME desktop in its full glory on the third day using my livecd. Some people commented that GNOME looked easier than KDE. I distributed 7CDs of phaeronix.
I was surprised ( in a happy way ) to see that on one PC, my phaeronix could set the screen resolution properly while knoppix failed. :)
I am still fiddling with the livecd, can't seem to settle down for a release.
Most importantly I nailed the X/firefox freeze crash bug that was annoying me to no end. It turned out that the experimental features of the nVidia binary drivers caused the instability. All I had to do was disable
- "RenderAccel" in /etc/X11/XF86Config
- "options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1" module options.
Also I now disable the module "snd-intel8x0m" because interferes with the slmodem driver.
In a different track of life I should pay more attention to my studies, I haven't been attending a lot lately. If I want to pass this year there's a lot to be done.
And guess what it's 16th of March. I am 23 years old :) I didn't remeber untill three persons reminded me, my parents, my friend Nabil, and *ahem* my future fiance` *cough* .
Here's a comment spam I actually like: "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
