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linux.conf.au: Look Tux, no wires
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
When Kim Hawtin, like many other young Australians, went to London in 2000 to work. he never knew that he would be introduced to one of the abiding interests of his life while there. Then in his late 20s, he had gone over to the mother country after graduation. While there he got involved with Consume.net, a group aiming to build up community wireless networks.
 
linux.conf.au: What is Novell doing here?
Friday, 11 January 2008
A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?
 
Software that gets in the way
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Do utilities which provide a graphical user interfaces really help us? Or are they merely another layer between people and their own competence? At times, I really wonder.
 
2008: Not the year of the Linux desktop
Friday, 04 January 2008
The new year is less than a week old but the talk has already begun. Yes, we are hearing that hackneyed old saw again - this will be the year of the Linux desktop. Some so-called pundits say it directly, some in an indirect manner but they aren't holding back.
 
Vista: even six years isn't enough
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
How many years does it take to create an operating system that works? How many people does it  take to do the work - in other words, how many manhours does this task consume? Would Microsoft like to cast some light on this?
 
Thank you for the code
Thursday, 27 December 2007
There are a total of 21,652 packages installed on my home workstation, an AMD64 single core processor box which has been in use since March 2006. It runs the testing stream of Debian. That's a lot of code, all of it free as in beer.
 
FOSS folk who make us proud
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Five days ago, three members of the free and open source software community finally heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their brows after winning a battle they had waged for years.
 
linux.conf.au: Taking FOSS to the masses
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Jacinta Richardson is one woman who admits to definitely being a geek. But that hasn't got in the way of her being the organiser of the only non-geek event of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference - Open Day.
 
linux.conf.au: The house full sign is up
Sunday, 23 December 2007
There are 35 days left before Australia's national Linux conference gets underway in Melbourne on January 28 but tickets have already sold out.
 
OOXML: move the goalposts, avoid facing the obvious
Friday, 21 December 2007
Last week, following a radio discussion, linux.com writer Bruce Byfield characterised two opposing FOSS camps in the OOXML debate who participated in that discussion as being "closer than they have appeared in the past."
 
GNOME: the cowboy project
Thursday, 20 December 2007
What is the relationship between the GNU Project and the GNOME desktop suite? GNOME itself claims to be a part of the GNU Project. But its relationship with the organisation is not the same as that of other software projects which are part of GNU.
 
linux.conf.au: Games Linux users play
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Some people tend to take a fancy to something or the other after being exposed to the same at an early stage in life. In Tim 'Mithro' Ansell's case, it was exactly the reverse.
 
Apple users: as far removed from Woz as possible
Friday, 14 December 2007
It does not take much to get the Apple user community up in arms - just a mention that there may be a defect in Mac OS X is sufficient to invite abuse, ridicule and plain silliness as though there is even  one operating system in this world of ours which is perfect.
 
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