There wasn't much Linux-specific info on this, but may be of general tech interest, thus its inclusion here. He stipulated that Cyrix are not 'out of the game' but decided to 'play the game differently'. He did say they'll still develop products on the general purpose CPU front. One question was about Linux support. Next came Chris Tay from PK Electronics who talked about their revolutionary 'hot swappable' UPSs that come in 1KVA packs and can be housed in a 4 box cabinet and loadshared across the whole bank of UPS's.
Redundancy is based on how much current is drawn out of it.
4kVA of power. Chris also stated that PK are open-spec adovocates and that they will assist in Linux connectivity by providing the pinouts for power monitoring to the Linux community. There weren't any more Linux related presentations, so people mingled around the mini-trade show booths and came around to see the Linux display. Rocket Micro Systems and Red Hat provided some Red Hat Linux boxed sets which were raffled off to the audience.