Stefan Schweizer

Today I visited worlds biggest IT trade fair Cebit in Hannover. Happily I represented KDE there on their booth in the Linuxpark that was sponsored by Linux New Media.

After departing my ICE there I had a long way through all the different halls to finally find the KDE booth .. deserted after some waiting where I got the wireless working on my Macbook the other staffers for the booth showed up. We unfolded some posters and set up a Thinkpad to show off KDE on the big LCD.

There I was very excited to see that the kde developer who booted the thinkpad was running Gentoo Linux! While talking it turned out that the four man booth staffing had 3 Gentoo users - that is a rather good ratio. Unfortunately despite the high Gentoo presence we had no Gentoo CDs to give out - our visitors got Kubuntu CDs.

Later when we started some hacking on kde cmake Torsten was also able to join us. From him I learned a lot about how Marble was designed and how he made sure that it is a very fast earth viewer that also works in an offline mode. Now I can lookup where a city is even faster, yay!