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20.Oct.2003
Christian Geier (E-Mail)

Report from LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany
At the first LinuxInfoTag in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 18th, the Image_Installer team presented the Pegasos. We did not expect such a big success and were surprised by the scores of visitors crowding our stand who were interested in the system. They represented several platforms, from Amiga users to people using x86 systems.

One could test the system, and some visitors made use of the opportunity to install Mandrake 9.1 themselves on the Pegasos using the Image_Installer. They were surprised in a positive way and amazed how quick and easy the installation was finished. Also MorphOS didn't get a raw deal. The visitors tested the SuperBundle and were impressed by the speed of the system, despite just having a 600 MHz CPU.

When we had a little bit of time, Michael Heider of course continued to work on Image_Installer and removing bugs. We can say with quiet conscience that with version 2 of the Image_Installer an easy installation of PegXLin and Gentoo is possible. To the question if this version would also be free or enclosed with the Pegasos we had to answer "no" for the time being, since we don't know this ourselves yet.

At the KDE team one could see a pre-release of the new KDE 3.2. New applications were added as well as graphical improvements. Daniel Molkentin demonstrated among other things an Outlook clone and a faster webbrowser.

Also some people from the Debian team were there. They showed Debian 3.0 for the x86 platform and provided help to questions regarding installation and adjustment of Debian to x86 systems.

Bert Radke of the Jabber team showed the latest version of Jabber. One could get information how a Jabber server is build up and which advantages Jabber provides.

At IBM students could get information about new notebooks. Computers from desktops for the office to servers were shown by AMD, who also provided the Internet connection for the show.

Further small projects were free games for Linux and the topic "Linux at school and university" by the university of Dresden.

Furthermore the visitors could take part at an Install-Party during the whole day to solve problems.

Final preparations	Erhard Bruse (front), Christian Geier (back)
Preparations	Erhard Bruse explains the Pegasos
Michael Heider (back) shows den Image_Installer Version 2	KDE booth
Debian booth	User testing Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider	Student installing Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo using Image_Installer Version 2
Michael Heider shows the possibilities of Image_Installer	Student testing Image_Installer
Michael Heider installing Gentoo using Image_Installer Version 2

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