Just a quick report from LinuxWorld London. We've just finished the first day of the exhibition, lots of interest. What surprised me a bit was that the general awareness about the project was somewhat lower than last year in Frankfurt. I guess that 80-90% of the people we spoke last year had already heard about the project, that percentage was a lot lower here (more around 30%).
Another pleasant surprise was the stability of the system. We ran it on an old laptop with a few applications: Quake 1, WinZip, IrfanView, AbiWord. On demand we showed some other apps like regedit, notepad, task manager. The system froze one time when a visitor played around with it, other than that no problems at all. Not a single kernel crash. We had to Tab-K to force a kernel check to show the BSOD to a visitor. I say let's bring out r18189 (I think...) as 0.2.8 (j/k).
People were reacting very nicely. It was nice to see them picking up a flyer rather uninterestedly, start to read, and then suddenly turn back to watch the demo when they realized what the project was all about.
Ge van Geldorp.