Linuxfest Northwest 2005
This past weekend I attended Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, WA with a buddy of mine who came down from Canada. There was an exhibit room set up with various vendors and groups as well as a packed presentation schedule with events running throughout the day.
Although there were a number of speakers I would have liked to have heard, we only had time to sit in on three. All three represented great achievements in open source development. The three presentations we attended were:
- Clam AntiVirus - Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. Its main purpose is in the integration with mail servers for the purposes of attachment scanning.
- Asterisk - Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.
- MythTV - MythTV is a suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.
They were all good presentations and it was easy to see that a lot of work has gone into each project to bring it to the standard it shares today. I personally can't wait to find a spare computer to set up a MythTV box and hopefully rid myself of the numerous VHS tapes that are scattered around the living room.
