CNET's Todd Volz describes some of the more interesting exhibits he saw at last week's LinuxWorld Expo in New York City. Volz writes . . .

This year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City was massive, spanning the entire second floor of the Javits Convention Center. Software and hardware clustering solutions dominated the proceedings, with rack-mount servers running a close second. Gadgets were everywhere: PDAs running PocketLinux, tiny Transmeta Crusoe-based notebooks, and a PC on a single chip, to name a few. All the major players–such as IBM, Compaq and Dell–were well-represented, but smaller companies and developers new to the Linux arena also found places to pitch their tents.

I spent three days at the show and still didn't get to drop by all the booths. And I'm sure I spent a little too much time ogling the unofficial stars of the show: SGI's robot mascots. Like a lot of other gawkers, I was duped for a second or two into believing that SGI was demoing some kind of advanced artificial intelligence technology; but the robots' verbal responses were just a little too clever and that notion was quickly doused. Nevertheless, these amiable automatons captured the attention of most passersby. Kudos to SGI for the concept, and to the robots' clever undercover operator.

Fun stuff aside, LinuxWorld ushered in bales of product announcements, far too many to list them all. So I'll concentrate on some of the most notable.

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