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Linus Sighted At LCA2004

Posted by timothy on from the punchbuggy-finnish dept.

leonbrooks writes "Yes! Third year in a row! The penguinmeister has entered the building! Posting from lecture theatre LG28 at the University of Adelaide, we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence. Solid proof that Australia truly is The Lucky Country. (-:" And an anonymous reader adds: "Linus will be here for a week at linux.conf.au but not presenting anything. If you want to see him, maybe you guys should come down to South Australia and register for linux.conf.au 2004."

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  1. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus is at location X!

    This is news folks, make no doubt about it.

  2. Linus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy..

  3. Havoc Pennington will do the keynote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Havoc of Red Hat/Gnome/freedesktop/ex-Debian fame will be there too delivering the keynote AFAIK. He has some interesting things to say, so people listen up. :)

  4. Apparently by Xel'Naga · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even the smilies are upside down in Australia

  5. In other news... by turgid · · Score: 5, Funny

    A decayed and rotten Elvis was seen attempting to enter the same conference without a pass. When questioned by security staff, the King was reportedy upset that such a "square" could become such a celebrity. "What is the world ocming to? Where are my fans?" He reportedly sobbed and he was led away by Australian police officers.

    --
    Stick Men
  6. Just the guys? by agwis · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If you want to see him, maybe you guys should come down to South Australia and register for linux.conf.au 2004."


    What about the gals? Surely linux.conf.au 2004 is a chick magnet, ain't it?


  7. Lucky country?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Solid proof that Australia truly is The Lucky Country.

    I thought it's because of all the topless sheila's on the beaches :)

  8. OMG by Nightreaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence.

    Anybody touched him yet? No, of course... nobody could be THAT lucky.

  9. He announced going to Australia.. by tsager · · Score: 5, Informative

    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:49:01 -0800 (PST)
    From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
    To: Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
    Subject: Linux-2.6.1

    Ok, the diffs from -rc3 are minimal, most noticeably the (very _very_ hard
    to trigger, but nasty if you ever did) fork() race that Ingo found.

    I'm going to be in Australia (and on airplanes) for the week, but we're
    all in the capable hands of Andrew, so why worry? The fact that I'm
    fleeing the country should in no way be construed as anything sinister at
    all, no siree. Nope. I'm innocent, and nobody saw me do it.

    The full changelog is getting uploaded right now along with the release,
    and the BK trees have already been pushed.

    Up up and away,

    Linus

  10. Linus sighting??!! by kiwioddBall · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus sighted?

    This puts Linus right up there with the Yeti, UFO's and Elvis.

    I saw Linus buying hair shampoo at the local 7/11!!!