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Linux conference organisers call for papers
By: Sam Varghese
The fact that organising Australia's national Linux conference is fully a year's work has been brought home with the announcement by the organisers of LCA 2009, or linux.conf.au as it is better known, that ideas for papers can be submitted.
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By: Sam Varghese
The fact that organising Australia's national Linux conference is fully a year's work has been brought home with the announcement by the organisers of LCA 2009, or linux.conf.au as it is better known, that ideas for papers can be submitted.
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Debian made this developer unhappy
By: Sam Varghese
It's normal to build up a mental picture of a person based on what you know about them, especially if you plan to meet that person. At times, the image is not too far removed from reality. At others, the mental image and reality could not be more different.
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By: Sam Varghese
It's normal to build up a mental picture of a person based on what you know about them, especially if you plan to meet that person. At times, the image is not too far removed from reality. At others, the mental image and reality could not be more different.
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JoomlaDay 08 Melbourne a sell out
By: Paul Hosking
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By: Paul Hosking
It's been 12 months since the last JoomlaDay in Melbourne so I guess you could call it an annual event.
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Stormy by name, not by nature
By: Sam Varghese
Stormy Peters is the director of community and partner programmes at a Colorado company called OpenLogic; she was down in Melbourne to give one of the keynote addresses at the Linux conference which was held in Melbourne.
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By: Sam Varghese
Stormy Peters is the director of community and partner programmes at a Colorado company called OpenLogic; she was down in Melbourne to give one of the keynote addresses at the Linux conference which was held in Melbourne.
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Lead, kindly light: Debian shows the way
By: Sam Varghese
There were several shining examples at the Linux conference of people not letting disadvantage stand in the way of moving to free and open source software but none better than that of Jason White .
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By: Sam Varghese
There were several shining examples at the Linux conference of people not letting disadvantage stand in the way of moving to free and open source software but none better than that of Jason White .
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Talking security with Bruce Almighty
By: Sam Varghese
When the good folk at Linux Australia sat down with the organisers of the Australian national Linux conference and decided that Bruce Schneier would be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the main conference, they couldn't have made a more correct decision.
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By: Sam Varghese
When the good folk at Linux Australia sat down with the organisers of the Australian national Linux conference and decided that Bruce Schneier would be the keynote speaker on the opening day of the main conference, they couldn't have made a more correct decision.
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Hobart to host 2009 Linux conference
By: Sam Varghese
The next Australian national Linux conference will be held in Hobart, the first time the Tasmanian capital has been given the honour of playing host.
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By: Sam Varghese
The next Australian national Linux conference will be held in Hobart, the first time the Tasmanian capital has been given the honour of playing host.
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FOSS to electric cars: not such a big leap
By: Sam Varghese
Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s. One could well say that he has a habit of looking at something and getting into it if he thinks it's going to be a future trend, one that could be useful and sensible.
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By: Sam Varghese
Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s. One could well say that he has a habit of looking at something and getting into it if he thinks it's going to be a future trend, one that could be useful and sensible.
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Linux Australia chief bids goodbye
By: Sam Varghese
For Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, today, the final day of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference is a day of fulfilment and also some sadness.
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By: Sam Varghese
For Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, today, the final day of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference is a day of fulfilment and also some sadness.
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A conversation with Martin Michlmayr
By: Sam Varghese
Martin Michlmayr is one of those highly intelligent people who tend to make us ordinary humans feel like some lower form of life.
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By: Sam Varghese
Martin Michlmayr is one of those highly intelligent people who tend to make us ordinary humans feel like some lower form of life.
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Money, money, money... and FOSS
By: Sam Varghese
Open source software is developed for a variety of reasons, with the starting point often being the need to fill a need which the creator of a package faces. It's known as scratching your own itch.
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By: Sam Varghese
Open source software is developed for a variety of reasons, with the starting point often being the need to fill a need which the creator of a package faces. It's known as scratching your own itch.
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The Linux kernel: now and then
By: Sam Varghese
When Linus Torvalds was writing his kernel way back in the 1990s, he was working in a small bedroom in an average house in Finland and using hardware that wasn't exactly top of the range.
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By: Sam Varghese
When Linus Torvalds was writing his kernel way back in the 1990s, he was working in a small bedroom in an average house in Finland and using hardware that wasn't exactly top of the range.
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Making hardware vendors love open source
By: Sam Varghese
Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national Linux conference today.
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By: Sam Varghese
Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national Linux conference today.
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Security is always a tradeoff: Schneier
By: Sam Varghese
Security is essentially a tradeoff and the main question about it is not whether we are safe or not but whether it is worth it. Simple and to the point. That's the way Bruce Schneier, probably the world's foremost security expert, puts it.
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By: Sam Varghese
Security is essentially a tradeoff and the main question about it is not whether we are safe or not but whether it is worth it. Simple and to the point. That's the way Bruce Schneier, probably the world's foremost security expert, puts it.
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Time and tide don't wait for FOSS projects
By: Sam Varghese
Should free and open source software projects set a release schedule that adheres to the old geek adage: release when it's ready? Or should time-based releases become the norm?
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By: Sam Varghese
Should free and open source software projects set a release schedule that adheres to the old geek adage: release when it's ready? Or should time-based releases become the norm?
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At MySQL, it's business as usual
By: Sam Varghese
With Sun Microsystems announcing earlier this month that it had acquired the most popular open source database company, MySQL, there has been speculation aplenty, some of it grossly misinformed, on just how much change this will mean for staff at the small Swedish company.
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By: Sam Varghese
With Sun Microsystems announcing earlier this month that it had acquired the most popular open source database company, MySQL, there has been speculation aplenty, some of it grossly misinformed, on just how much change this will mean for staff at the small Swedish company.
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Each one, make one - the distro debate
By: Sam Varghese
Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, is a brave man. Few people other than him would have even tried to bring together those who pledge allegiance to different Linux distributions - and within the framework of a conference at that.
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By: Sam Varghese
Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, is a brave man. Few people other than him would have even tried to bring together those who pledge allegiance to different Linux distributions - and within the framework of a conference at that.
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Unbreakable Linux support - Oracle's claim
By: Sam Varghese
Oracle's push into the Linux space is gaining momentum with the company even taking the trouble to fly someone down from Singapore to present a talk today at the Australian national Linux conference.
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By: Sam Varghese
Oracle's push into the Linux space is gaining momentum with the company even taking the trouble to fly someone down from Singapore to present a talk today at the Australian national Linux conference.
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