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Wrap-up On The Ottawa Linux Symposium
Joe Barr writes "David Graham wraps up his coverage of the Ottawa Linux Symposium with this report on Day 4, including the closing keynote address by Andrew Morton. If you've been turned off by the commercialism of LWCE the past couple of years, you might find the OLS to be breath of fresh air. Our fearless reporter has provided detailed, behind-the-headlines coverage each day of the event."
Surely they have WMD's
Sounds to me that it is time for Canada to be LIBERATED
calm down people it was meant to be a joke.
Did I miss the headline coverage that his is behind? Canadian Bear wrestles Linux Penguin at the Hart Dungeon? Rematch scheduled for the Saddledome?
The Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is a neat kernel debugging tool, however, it hasn't been able to get inclusion into the main kernel source tree. I'd like to ask if there was any buzz about LTT during the conference and if there is any sense about whether LTT is likely to get included into the source tree or not any time soon?
It's too bad the symposium is so expensive; they have often had very interesting people and interesting seminars.
The funny part is half the people who do go are your average slashdot reader-types from outside Canada, so when the daily drinking begins, it only takes two hours for their frail geek-bodies to become overboard drunk! Luckily our Ottawa LUG practices year-round with a meet at the bar after each LUG meeting...
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Immediately upgrade all pc's at DeGrassi to Linux. Result? J.T. reaches new heights of nerd-dom, Emma now gets to argue with Snake over which distro to use, and Marco will become more alternative than ever. However, Paige remains bitchy and sticks to Windows out of spite.
I love symposia!
Linux Standard Base is something mentioned in the speech, and it does seem to be something that could help remedy the current spaghetti that is the file structure. With the ever-changing library names, the symlinks start to pile up.
/dev directory? Each distro seems to have their own way of organizing devices. Of course, instead of making things neater, you end up with the new way of organizing it plus symlinks to all the old ones as well.
Probably not as related, but have you ever taken a look at the
Browsing files seems to be what makes Linux difficult for me. Cleaning things up ought to make things much easier (even compared to Windows)
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
The symposium just wasn't as good as last year.
The schedule came out late - by the time I received it, I'd already booked my travel arrangements - and ended up missing the keynote and some sessions that I would have liked to go to.
The only sponsored session was snacks/drinks... and listening to an author talk about his (non-technical) books for what seemed like an eternity.
The wireless network - while steady and up this year - had a crap-ass interenet connection that was less stable than a fainting goat.
All in all - the conference seemed haphazardly organized and last minute.
BlackNova Traders
It would have been great to go. However, it was too expensive for me to go. I asked my boss, but with our predominately Windows network, it was tough. Even my "but our mail servers run linux" rebuttal didn't justify the expensive cost. My boss did say that I could have the day off with pay to go, but they didn't have the money to pay for the conference.
Looking back on it, I think that they made the right choice not to let me go. The company likes linux because it is cheap and works very well. However, sending me on a conference where nothing new was presented only a discussion on older ideas may not have been cost effective.
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
This report has some coverage of the discussions for fighting GPL violations.
Interesting case in point made by Herald Welte that "If a company violates the GPL and negotiates with the FSF to stop, by the time they agree to stop the product is done and they're gone on to the next one -- which could also violate the GPL. Then they can go through the whole process again without really losing much. ".
What I'd like to know is, if there are any steps to identify GPL violations? There are companies all over the world using and modifying OSS tools (most notably from the Apache foundation) and selling them (or selling them as part of their product suites). Is there any initiative to counter this?
http://efil.blogspot.com/
For me, one of the most rememberable moments was watching Alan Cox and another guy whose name I've haven't noticed, playing an identify-the-os game with the KDE BSOD screen saver. :)
0x2b or not 0x2b, the answer is -1
So far I have seen no mention of this symposium in the local Ottawa papers. Very sad.
Linoox, eh?
It's a symposium, people. How can that be offtopic?
To be honest, I was sceptical about Linux when it first appeared. I had been a diehard M$ fan and gladly used MS-DOS. Then, one day, someone told me the story of Gary Kildall, who was driven to suicide by Bill Gates.
Then, I took a second look at Linux. I love it. It works just liks UNIX and, in fact, is a version of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie himself says that Linux is the proper heir to the original UNIX that he developed.
The only thing that bugs me is that AOL does not make a client for Linux. If AOL did distribute one, I would erase M$ Windows from my desktop.
In the UK we have the UKUUG Linux 2004 conference. This years event will be in Leeds between 5th and the 8th August. Not as big as those events over the water but there's still usually a good turnout. The Register has a reader offer for those who want to attend.
Shameless plug alert. You can get my own report on the 4 days of the show on my my blog.
It includes a few pictures...with more coming tonight.
IP Therefore I am.
Mod this up NOW!
It's a single story... from an Africa website of unknown validity. Why haven't ANY other news outlets run the story?
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
It's good to see the Linux community uniting like this toward a common goal that solely commercial vendors (aka Microsoft) have been unable to do successfully - be secure and efficient and lean (The LSB test software is about 80,000 lines of code across 2000 files on the first layer. The second layer, which is the meat of the actual tests, is about 100 files and 15,000 lines of code) without the annoyance feature bloat simply because "you need it" or "because we want you to need it".
Let's just hope that the changes planned for LSB come out as intended. If this follows the traditional pattern of Linux this will be definite. ^^
How can the supposed police website have a copy of the "stolen database?"
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
Don't forget the desktop conference going on upstairs at the same time, for the GUI people. Edd Dumbill's report is here.
From ze article:
"The strangest thing is that I am not getting any reaction about the hacking from eBay, despite repeated attempts. Agents of the SSS [American Secret Security Service] visited eBay, but they also complained that they could not get any information from them."
Do we imply that the SSS is relavent to the actual Secret Service and now investigates commercial fraud and theft? If we imply SSS is the secret service, what is a domestic agency that is vested with the pursuit of counterfeiters and executive branch security doing in this jurisdiction?
If the SSS is some other agency, what exactly is this? A commercial security agency? A police agency?
This whole article stinks of phish.
"Oh No! And I gave them my VISA card number! And now I can't find the number of the Secret Security Service!" Somebody will believe it.
The downloadable archive from 2001 was great. I hope they get some more recents speeches ready for download.
And I guess you should ignore the pleading for help in processing the raw audio. I offerred and never hear from them.
Any way it's sliced, you are still an asshole.
I think the OP missed some of the best talks:
XenoLinux - a virtual machine layer to support linux and other free OSes at almost native speeds.
Alot faster than UML!
CKRM - not new but I didn't know about it. From their sf site:
The Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM) project seeks to develop Linux kernel mechanisms providing differentiated service to resources such as CPU time, memory pages, I/O and incoming network bandwith based on user defined groups of tasks called classes
TIPC - Transparent Inter Process Communication protocol is specially designed for intra cluster communication but definately not for the internet.