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She gave a keynote talk at linux conf au, the talk is now available on youtube.

At yesterdays linux.conf.au Browser miniconference in Ballarat, Australia...

Wait what? Something actually happened in this god forsaken place? Something I.T. related that wasn't IBM related, IBM sponsored, a thought bubble from IBM, an idea from someone who use to work for IBM or taught for IBM or was a student at the IBM approved University courses? linux.conf.au Sponsors.... knew it was too good to be true.

They say that one of the benefits, if not an outright goal, of some Linux distributions is to be a great platform to develop software on.

At one time Linux looked downright competitive as a platform (if certainly not market,) so what happended since 2002?

I do think one thing that would help is for OSS games to have much better tools. Make it easy for people to add assets, build levels and so on. Maybe more people would be willing to do so.

Well, games are not just software. The software is simply there to make the game go.

Perhaps the reason that there are so few (or in some opinions no) good games on Linux is that for developing games, Linux sucks?

Perhaps it is time to admit that OpenGL is a not the only kid on the block and start providing another popular API that other developers want to use?

Perhaps it is time to stop throwing away all that boatload of artwork with each release and start saving anything under a usable license to an appropriate gathering spot?

Perhaps it is time to put down that cumulative-xml2pd-custom-package-colored-pretty-printer patch and answer some basic questions in such a way that new people don't hate us?

What happened to those Open Source game engines that were going to let you MOD your way for WoW 2.0? Perhaps they are still there, waiting for content.

Perhaps what Linux Gaming needs is a little less CompSci and a little more Bachelors of Arts?

No, it is fundamentally broken in places. It's not a matter of library support. It's a matter of the compiler taking those libraries and totally fucking with their intended purpose because the language spec lets them and it can improve optimizations.

But I'm glad idiots have opinions. It gives people like this guy (video) something to do, by educating you. What ends up happening is that compilers end up presenting non-standard extensions. I've used an embedded language nesC that would provide atomic blocks and implement them by disabling interrupts (not a great idea when avoidable, but passable if you know the drawbacks).

The last i heard it was planned to be in the main xorg in a release or two. I was in the audience at linux.conf.au, Video and he also did a presentation at our lug
The pointer on the screen is separate from the mouse and keyboard, you can potentially have a many to many relationship between keyboards and mice so you could potentially have a single keyboard to multiple terminals. To get everything working you need to run a command to attach this keyboard to this mouse and generate a pointer. You can start writing applications that will take advantage of multiple pointers if you base your input on Ximput where events include what mouse the event came from.

If you look around there may be something that will repeat multiple key presses to multiple terminals already out there but i cannot remember the name at the moment.

The presentation mentioned in the article that he gave at linux.conf.au was "Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World". Part 1 Part 2 Slides

The presentation mentioned in the article that he gave at linux.conf.au was "Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World". Part 1 Part 2 Slides

http://linux.conf.au/programme/wednesday

At least you have it announced, it still remains to be announced in Australia. I've seen two PS3's in Australia and both of them were running Linux at Linux.conf.au 2007 (from the Yellow Dog Linux guys, so I don't think they were local). So to answer your question? It isn't. I can understand localization issues in parts of Europe might cause delays but for Australia were technically its British English but due to the absolute raping that occured during our early TV development where the US TV producers firmly established their foothold in Australia (to the point that easily 50% or more commercial TV in Australia is American; the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Radio National weekly 'The Science Show' covered this in one of its broadcasts on TV in Australia), American English would be accepted normally without a second thought. I'd almost suggest it'd be easier to ship the PS3 from Japan to Australia than it would to get it from Japan to the UK - especially via boat.

The connection appeared to hang waiting for the stylesheet, so this was only viewable by viewing the HTML source. Obviously relative links are all busted.

Basically, Dunc is an experimental project to try out ways of funding Debian development. Not paying for servers or bandwidth, or reimbursing expenses and flight costs, but actually paying people to sit down and do useful Debian work rather than some other day job.

There's info about who exactly is behind Dunc at the board page.

Dunc directly supports work on Debian, and is made up of a small group of people who use Debian and who want to see Debian improve. But Dunc is not endorsed by Debian, and Debian does not exercise any control over how Dunc operates.

A number of other groups fund Debian work directly or indirectly, whether that be by allowing or encouraging their employees to contribute to Debian, or having Debian work be part of their actual job description. Dunc does not aim to compete with those groups, either in the tasks being worked on, or in the people being recruited, but rather to address other niches in the Debian ecosystem.

Dunc is an acronym standing for "Development Under Numismatic Control" -- which could equally be called "coin-operated coding". The point of the project is to try some new possibilities of funding free and open source software development and helping people work on free software development on a full-time basis.

Really, though, the name is a reference to the linux.conf.au auction in 2003, for the t-shirt signed by the speakers, proceeds from which were directed to Electronic Frontiers Australia. To make the bidding more lively a certain individual foolishly suggested that the next Debian release would be named after the winning bidder, should the bidding go above $2000. Due to the combined resources of a table of inebriated Sun folks, Duncan Bennet won the bidding, and the right to have his name associated with the next Debian release -- which, many years later, turns out to be Debian 4.0, aka etch. So yes, this is yet another free software project that has its roots in the consumption of a little too much wine at a conference dinner.

As Dunc is an experiment, we don't know what will end up happening with it. We may decide it works perfectly as is, or that it was a horrible idea that should never have been tried. In any event, we expect to review what worked, what didn't, and what should be done over the course of the first project, and have a public discussion about what to do after the release of etch.

This site is maintained using Joey Hess's ikiwiki.

It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.

I've just been to both linux.conf.au and FOSDEM and in both cases, Google has been recruiting really aggressively. By that, I mean someone you've never met just popping in with "Hello, have you considered working for Google?".

...to the point where finding them while attending is almost a Hallowed Tradition now.

Linux Australia is the group organising the big linux.conf.au conference each year. (Both Linus and /. editors have attended in the past...)

They are currently in the process of setting themselves up as the group to talk to if you want to talk to FOSS volunteers in Australia. This is pretty much a self-appointed role for them, but they have put a lot of effort into communicating with the LUGs all over the country and they have deeper pockets and a higher profile than the LUGs due to organising the region's major FOSS conference, so the LUGs are, as far as I know, consenting. Most Linux Australia people are pretty active in their own LUG: the Sydney and Perth groups have a great deal of overlap with Linux Australia. LA is also open membership and most conference attendees do end up joining (it's free with the conference admission) so a reasonable chunk of FOSS developers in Australia have voting rights. Rusty Russell and Andrew Tridgell have both been involved to varying degrees.

So they are a legitimate user group, or meta-user group, as much as any other LUG in Australia. It's in their role as the umbrella of Linux in Australia that they seem to have asked Malcolm to act to shore up Linus's claim to "Linux" in Australia, currently in doubt because so many businesses already use the word.

At linux.conf.au Anton Blanchard from IBM explained how they got a 128 way power pc under linux

At linux.conf.au Anton Blanchard from IBM explained how they got a 128 way power pc under linux

It started out as a dry discussion of software licences, swung by the establishment of a center to give free legal advice to free software developers (funded by the industry players who want to use free software in their products), and finished with a rousing explanation of why it all matters.

there should be video soon.

http://linux.conf.au/

This morning Jonathan Corbet mentioned this news in detail, at this talk

However, It's a same that Linus wasn't here himself to talk about it, as in previous years.

So there'll be no re-enactment of that famous penguin nip, which made history and changed the world. :(

It is a fact that the Linux-kernal incorporates legally infringed copyrights.

Just look at MPlayer.

Also, if you bothered to RTFA, you'll see that this idiot (Jeremy Mark Malcolm) who's being quoted offers ZERO proof that there is, as he claims:

... 'no question' that Linux already violates a number of patents, which could lead to further litigation.

If you do a google for this guy, you'll see that he's no "legal expert", he's just some part-time (very part-time) lawyer trying to drum up a name for himself down under. His day job (for the last 7 years) is "Manager of Terminus Network Services" here.

Since 1998 he has been the Manager of Terminus Network Services which specialises in the use of open source software in networked environments and in the development of online systems and he is a Debian Developer.

If you really want to laugh, here's a google cache of his home page.

"Fisheye Stiller" :: [2005-02-27 05:03PM]

I spent all day in Fremantle today on location for the shooting of a new
local independent feature film, Fisheye Stiller. I play a bank teller who
is held up, then goes on the chase to try to recover the money. We'll be
back in front of the cameras in April. Watch out for it at film festival
later this year

I am also a member, but not currently on the board or executive committee,
of various other organisations including Australian Mensa (but only so that
I can put that fact on my resume

Anyone stupid enough to get suckered into paying some other group to say "Hey, they think I'm smart" is White House Press Corps "lob-a-softball-question-for-George" material.

Will the presentations be webcast?

• It's Australia, it has to be beaut!
• Excellent weather, even in Canberra (-;
• The only Linux conference with balls (big ones, too, you'll see what I mean when you get there);
• Excellent people. Beyond excellent! Read the roster and consider that this place houses OzLabs too;
• Excellent subject matter, re-read the roster.
• Excellent venue. Nice flat spread-out campus, plenty of places to walk or just veg out within cooee;
• Cafe strip more or less adjacent;
• Very cheap flights from almost anywhere on the East Coast;
• Gets you away from work, gives you the mental toning up required for peak performance;

I find intriguing that there aren't any transcripts of the talks next to the videos and the papers?
It would be nice to have a transcript next to the paper the talk tries to explain; perhaps they don't have enough man power to do this?

This one seems interesting too:
"Could SCO v IBM Happen to You?"
http://linux.conf.au/abstracts.cgi#4
But the database seems down for now.

Exactly what we are working on.

My boss gave a paper at linux.conf.au this year, and you can see more information on our WiKi. One of the guys here has even written an IDE driver in Python.

We also want to push microstate accounting, a way to get really fine grained statistics on what your kernel is doing (i.e. how long is spent waiting on a futex, etc?).

I attended Jeff Bates's talk at linux.conf.au where he gave his presentation using OS X. The only presenter all week who dared to use a non-Linux platform.

Linux.conf.au in Perth has just finished and was a great success. Attendees included Linus, Alan Cox, Rusty, Tridge, HPA, Rasmus, Bdale and some guy called Hemos.
Who would choose wintery New York? A bunch of suits, I guess. Not one suit in sight at LCA. A big congrats to the organisers.

One of the PostgreSQL developers is at Linux.conf.au right now. During his talk on Wednesday he mentioned this and that Oracle accused the .org registry guys of "criminial negligence" if they switched to PostgreSQL over Oracle. All I can say is: "HAH!" Feeling the pressure...

Linus is currently attending Linux.conf.au here in Australia. So far the conference has been great with an excellent Q&A session yesterday with Linus, Tridge, and Bdale Garbee. Topics discussed included women in IT, 2.2 vs 2.4 kernel stability, TCPA, patents, and 2.6 kernel release dates (any day now ;) ) and the name of the immininent 2.6 kernel maintainer (first initial A.) Also Linus dressed up in a penguin suit for the first time. It's suprising no one has posted a full summary, it will probably go up after the conference ends. Stay tuned. There were some gems in the Q&A alone.

...LCA2003, and now working scramjet engines! Australia seems to invent the best of everything. (-:

Not being anything remotely resembling a kernal hacker, it was great to see and compare some of the (proposed) changes between 2.4.x and the new 2.5 fork at the recent linux.conf.au. The speaker, Rusty Russell, took us through the netfilter and scheduler code (2.4.13 vs 2.5.3) and it was a real eye-opener. I don't claim to be a C wizard, but I can tell elegance when I see it, and some of the code overhauls certainly have that ring to them.

a good overview of different p2p architectures is over here at openp2p.com.

One system the author fails to mention is Circle, which uses a decentralized hashtable system., more about it at his system is in a pdf slideshow he'll be giving at linux.conf.au

My favorite quote from his page: "FastTrack (aka Kazza/Morpheus) is kind of like trying to optimize a bublesort", which leads me to believe he has a regular quicksort at hand. (actually he does claim O(n log n) seachs, so its about right)

Also to note are Chord and GISP which seem to use simular schemes, where Chord is pure acadamia (someones masters thesis). GISP is an implementation of something from JXTA, suns p2p framework.