LinuxTag
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LinuxTag is a Free Software expo with an emphasis on Linux (but also BSD), held every summer in Germany. It is relatively large, claiming that it is the largest expo of this kind in Europe, drawing visitors from many countries.
The LinuxTag byline is "where .COM meets .ORG", as it includes both representatives from commercial companies and from not-for-profit/community projects. The latter are given booths, free of charge, in the .org section, as long as there is room.
LinuxTag has also been a sponsor of several other projects, notably of Knoppix, a GNU/Linux LiveCD. Knoppix is often used to showcase software running on GNU/Linux on a computer configured with a different operating system (usually Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X).
LinuxTag is sponsored by various IT-related companies and, at least in some of its iterations, by the German government.
[edit] History
The first Linuxtag event was held in 1996 on the University at Kaiserslautern. It was hosted there all the other years until the year 2000 and 2001, when it was moved to Stuttgart. From 2002-2005 it was held in Karlsruhe, and in the year 2006 it was held in Wiesbaden. 2007 Linuxtag will be held in Berlin from May 30 until June 2.
[edit] External links
- Official LinuxTag website
- German Official web page (with information in English as well)
- The Knoppix project
- OpenMusic, another LinuxTag-sponsored project. The topbar at the site provides links to (all?) other LinuxTag-sponsored projects.
