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LCA 2010: Keeping the funds rolling in
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-11-10 16:59:46
Andrew McMillan's long beard, streaked with flecks of grey, sits nicely with his status as one of New Zealand's senior geeks. It fits even better after one becomes aware that, before he ventured into technology, he obtained a degree in philosophy.


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Linux geeks, New Zealand beckons
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-08-10 21:19:45
A husband-wife team is in the driver's seat for the 11th Australian national Linux conference which kicks off in Wellington, New Zealand, on January 18 next year.
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Two keynote speakers announced for LCA2010
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-08-04 20:39:37
The 11th Australian national Linux conference is still more than five months away but the pieces are already falling into place with two of three keynote speakers having been finalised.
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Move over Tux; it's time for Tuz the Tassie Devil to be Linux mascot for a while
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-03-22 07:56:29
Ever socially aware, Linux has a new mascot for a short while. Tuz will instead embrace the boot screen of many a distro in kernel 2.6.29. His presence aims to bring awareness to the plight faced by Tasmanian Devils.


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Now, you too can shave Bdale's beard
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-24 17:28:47
One of the happenings at the 10th Australian national Linux conference that attracted the most attention was the shaving of Bdale Garbee's beard by Linus Torvalds.
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LCA2009: Organisers take a bow
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-23 01:32:13
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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Wellington to host next Linux conference
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-23 00:23:11
The 11th Australian national Linux conference will be held in Wellington in 2010, the second time the conference has stepped across the Tasman.
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LCA2009: Torvalds turns barber for a while
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-22 23:56:27
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.


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LCA2009: The third wave of open source
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-22 18:46:19
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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LCA2009: It's a Linux conference - but there's Macs aplenty
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-22 04:56:26
One thing that has been increasing exponentially at the Australian national Linux conference is that shiny, steel-grey laptop - or, at times, the sleek white one.
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LCA2009: Why ODF should be the chosen one
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-22 04:07:01
It is difficult to know whether Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager at OpenOffice.org, was conscious at any point today of the irony of criticising proprietary software while making a presentation using a MacBook.
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LCA2009: Sugar Labs tries to pick up the pieces
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 21:30:57
It was created to sit on the laptops of the One Laptop Per Child project but after the numerous fiascos that the mother project faced, the Sugar learning system is now being developed entirely independently of OLPC.
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LCA2009: Getting Wikipedia up to speed
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 20:51:26
Wikipedia is a grand concept that has yet to reach its full potential. Run by a non-profit organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, it has had its bad moments but has overcome many of its earlier problems in the move towards being a reliable source of information, a free encyclopedia online.
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LCA2009: Of beards and saving the Tasmanian devil
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 20:20:22
It all began with the auction of a painting at last night's Penguin dinner to raise money towards research aimed at saving the Tasmanian devil.
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LCA2009: That mysterious thing called the kernel
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 04:23:48
For the last four years, the pony-tailed Jonathan Corbet, kernel developer and editor, has presented what he calls the kernel report at Australia's national Linux conference.
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LCA2009: Going the Satellite route with Red Hat
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 02:10:39
In times like these, it must be uplifting to work for a company that has seen revenue and profits rise while all around are scenes of doom and gloom.
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LCA2009: Collaborating across distributions
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-21 00:26:24
Is the concept of using a modern version control system to handle cross-distribution packaging some kind of an Utopian dream?
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LCA2009: Building trust through the abundance mindset
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-20 18:21:33
Systems administrator, author and activist Tom Limoncelli kicked off Australia's 10th national Linux conference proper in Hobart this morning with the first keynote.
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LCA2009: Active Directory in Samba 4 'an old story'
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-20 03:20:52
Microsoft knew of the possibility that Samba 4 could supplant Active Directory years ago, hence it was unlikely that the company would feel that it posed any additional threat to Windows Server now, Samba founder Andrew Tridgell said today.
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LCA2009: Rusty's baby turns 10
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-01-20 02:06:50
For Paul "Rusty" Russell, this year's Australian national Linux conference has special significance - his baby has turned 10.
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