[CentOS-promo] Re: [CentOS-devel] centos@linuxtag

[Daniel de Kok]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 13:37 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> I'll bring a laptop, ralph will as well and possibly others too. So in the 
> worst case scenario we just display a few laptops to show off CentOS on 
> laptops. (Do make sure that most functionality you want to show works and 
> is tested on your laptop !)

I'll bring my laptop with me too.

> What are we going to demo ? CentOS, as an Enterprise Linux has many 
> practical uses: servers, appliances and desktops. Servers is hard to show 
> off except for management/reporting applications, appliances could be 
> VOIP/VDR setups, desktops would be the compiz setup with interesting 
> GUI applications.

IMHO It would be nice if we can have a machine with a VT-X enabled CPU
at the booth, and demo Xen with CentOS 4.5 and 5 domUs, as well as some
OS that requires HVM. Together with our upstream we seriously have a
lead in that area, and it's a hot subject.

-- Daniel