The annual festival of nerdy-ness LinuxWorld will be changing its name and focus next year. Here’s a snip from Eric Brown’s post RIP LinuxWorld:

The largest conference devoted to Linux technology is changing its name to embrace open source software on other operating systems (OSes). Next August, LinuxWorld will relaunch as the OpenSource World Conference & Expo, but will retain existing LinuxWorld features, says show organizer IDG World Expo.

LinuxWorld has been going on for about 10 years and I attended several of the San Francisco ones with my techy cohorts at Clear Ink. It was always a great relax, check out geeky gizmos and pick up tons of free t-shirts. One year we even got to see a great keynote presentation by Lawerence Lessig about “Free Culture”.

Over the last couple of years attendance seemed to be dropping but I’ll miss LinuxWorld, but I’ll always be able to relive it with this touching montage video of my last trip, assembled by Jim Kwak with music by Ric Seaberg.

Austin Davis Richardson discovered that apparently Tux the Penguin – beloved icon of the Linux operating system – has taken a second job moonlighting as an ice-cold drink salesman at a Gainesville, Florida convenience store.

via BoingBoing