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Highlights from the Linux.conf.au
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| The annual Linux conference, Linux.conf.au, is on at Hobart this week and we
| kept you informed about the activities with our Twitter feed. A speaker
| predicting cloud computing will replace system administrator tasks and
| Wikipedia's plan to release a new mobile platform later in the year were some
| of the event's highlights.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/syslog/viewblogpost.htm?p=339271137
LCA2009: Organisers take a bow
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| Exhausted but overjoyed with the outcome, the co-organisers of the 10th
| Australian national Linux conference say they would be willing to play host
| again - but certainly not for a couple of years.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22842/1148/
LCA2009: The third wave of open source
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| Open source has reached the third wave of its evolution and those who have
| been using the older models which were procurement-driven need to adapt.
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| That's the message which Simon Phipps, the chief open source and standards
| officer from Sun Microsystems, brought to the Australian national Linux
| conference this morning.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22837/1148/
LCA2009: Torvalds turns barber for a while
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| One doubts whether there have ever been more people watching a man's beard
| being clinically removed, first by trimmer and then by razor, than there were
| at the Australian national Linux conference today.
|
| But this wasn't just any man and any beard - this was HP's chief open source
| and Linux technologist Bdale Garbee. And the barber was a man by the name of
| Linus Benedict Torvalds.
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| The reason for this hair-raising episode was pledges made by people at the
| conference's penguin dinner on Wednesday when a painting was being auctioned
| to raise money for research into saving the Tasmanian devil.
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| The final sum is expected to be in the region of $40,000.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22838/1148/
Linux.Conf.Au - Penguin Dinner
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| I didn't really anticipate finishing my evening by hearing Linus Torvalds
| promise to shave off another man's beard.
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| [...]
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| A consortium, spoken for by the extremely handsome Matthew Garrett of power
| management fame, offered $7500 if Linus would himself wield the razor. When
| asked if he was happy with this plan, Linus replied "Why stop at the beard? I
| will do his whole head."
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxconfau-penguin-dinner
Torvalds shaves Garbee's beard: Photos
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| In these photos, Linux founder Linus Torvalds shaves Hewlett-Packard Linux
| CTO and open-source luminary Bdale Garbee's beard to raise money for the
| endangered Tasmanian Devil species.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Torvalds-shaves-Garbee-s-beard-Photos/0,139023769,339294567,00.htm
Recent:
Congratulations Mr President - Linux Australia goes to the vote
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| A new President is about to be inaugurated; yes, Linux Australia's Council is
| in the midst of its general elections with the results to be declared at the
| annual general meeting held as part of Linux.Conf.Au (LCA) 2009.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22813/1143/
Building A PC Case From Spare Shampoo Bottles
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| A feature of Linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart is Batteries Not Included, a
| tech-influenced art event -- and one of the more striking installation ideas
| is the Frank Zappa Project, a garbage bin for collecting plastic shampoo
| bottles from delegate hotel rooms to be recycled into casing for machines
| built as part of the OLPC project.
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http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2009/01/22/building_a_pc_case_from_spare_shampoo_bottles.html
Live from Down Under: Report from Linux.conf.au 2009
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| For FOSS fans, there's no better place to be this week than Hobart, state
| capitol of the Australian state Tasmania. That's where Linux.conf.au 2009 is
| being held through Saturday, January 24.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/live_from_down_under_report_from_linux_conf_au_2009
http://tinyurl.com/cq2jsy
LCA2009: Going the Satellite route with Red Hat
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| The company in question is Red Hat; its revenue went up 22 percent in the
| third US quarter, with earnings going up by 20 percent. Those are certainly
| figures that no-one would sneeze at.
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| Hence, it was to be expected that Richard Keech, who works for Red Hat
| locally as principal consultant, would be wearing a grin on his face when I
| met him to discuss the talk he gave at the Australian national Linux
| conference in Hobart.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22794/1148/
LCA2009: That mysterious thing called the kernel
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| Corbet pointed out that maintaining code outside the mainline kernel was
| expensive; if code made it to this kernel, the one that is handled by
| Torvalds, then the chances of it being in every distribution were very good.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22797/1148/
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