educationaLinux 2003 in the Media

Day One is a howling success!

Attendees experienced a couple of deeply interesting leading presentations, with considerable audience participation, covering a broad range of factors both in favour of and mitigating against the adoption of Linux (or in some cases, anything new or different).

Then followed a detailed analysis of the planning and execution behind Linux rollouts in a school, replacing Windows NT and Novell, maintaining with $35,000 an IT system which would normally have $100,000 a year available, and a demonstration and exposition on a school-friendly distribution based on Debian. Great icons!

Ian Loxton's presentation, in the event, was impressive. His laptop froze whenever we plugged it into the video projector, so he had to deliver a presentation without the presentation, he a layman at a technical conference, and with very sparse notes. He received a termendous round of applause for his excellent effort, which included several long URLs recited from memory.

The day was rounded off beautifully by our token American, Randy Appleton. "Entertaining" hardly touches the surface of a deeply informative presentation on everything from protecting a professor from arrest by the US Army's Military Police to the number of syscalls made by the "ls" command. Fighting uphill, as any last-in-the-day presentation does, and as the only presenter to not use Linux, Randy definitely hit a home run for the NMU team with this amazing session.

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