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Stormy by name, not by nature
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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.
 
Lead, kindly light: Debian shows the way
Saturday, 02 February 2008
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 .
 
Intel releases graphics programming manuals
Saturday, 02 February 2008
FOSS developers will be able to write drivers for the Intel 965 Express chipset family and Intel G35 Express chipset graphics controller following the company's decision to release specs under a Creative Commons Licence.
 
Talking security with Bruce Almighty
Friday, 01 February 2008
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.
 
Hobart to host 2009 Linux conference
Friday, 01 February 2008
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.
 
FOSS to electric cars: not such a big leap
Friday, 01 February 2008
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.
 
Linux Australia chief bids goodbye
Friday, 01 February 2008
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.
 
A conversation with Martin Michlmayr
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Martin Michlmayr is one of those highly intelligent people who tend to make us ordinary humans feel like some lower form of life.
 
Money, money, money... and FOSS
Thursday, 31 January 2008
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.
 
The Linux kernel: now and then
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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.
 
Making hardware vendors love open source
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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.
 
Security is always a tradeoff: Schneier
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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.

 
Time and tide don't wait for FOSS projects
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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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