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Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Videos Released
xf writes "After much ado, the LCA2004 team have just released the video highlights DVD and the conference proceedings CD - lots of interesting stuff. You can find more information about the videos here, with links to the DVD and CD ISO's here (HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent)."
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So close! I can't wait!
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
...wander up into the QV.1 building, plug my laptop in next to Digital (which is actually not a Digital/DEC machine any more) and burn you a DVD from there. If I hustled down to the airport with it I could have it in any Australian capital city within about 12 hours. (-:
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Why were these Linux Conference videos produced using a closed source/proprietary operating system, hardware, and software? I understand that it was cheap since Apple donated the system and software but this definitely is counter productive to the Linux community. If Microsoft would have donated the software and hardware using their OS and software the Linux and Slashdot community would have sh*t. Why is it that since Apple now has a spot on Slashdot and it a competitor to Microsoft do readers somehow overlook the fact that this company is as closed, proprietary, and just as patent crazy as Microsoft. Just because they are small niche and compete with Microsoft, doesn't negate the fact that they are on the opposite end of the open source spectrum as Linux. Linux users/developers and the open source community need to start treating all of these companies equally (Microsoft and Apple) in terms of their criticism and support.
There are plenty of open source software options available today that would have allowed the production of these videos.
Because Apple isn't against Open source. I use a powerbook at work and at home, but except for the few games I've purchased I've spent a grand total of 25 dollars for closed source software. (I've donated enough to FOSS that I may get a tax break.) Almost all of it runs on my macintosh, So can afford to have a power book, and still get work done. In other words Linux is good for apple.
Bleep
"In other words Linux is good for apple"
Linux and in more general terms the open source community is what every company (including Apple) wants. No one doubts this. But the greater question that I believe the person is asking is "Are companies like Apple (and Microsoft) good for the open source community?"
I would have to agree that any company that produces closed source/proprietary software is not good for the open source community. And Apple fans can argue all you want about Darwin being open source..... Just because a closed source company (Apple in this case) takes advantage of the work of a open source development under the BSD license and tacks on closed source code on top that to form the OS along with applications that are closed source does not make that company open source friendly to Linux. There are plenty of open source projects and Windows and Apple's operating systems but that does not make Microsoft and Apple good for the open source community.
We should steer clear of these companies and their products until they release their code to the community. Open source is a two way street not a one way opportunity for a company to take advantage of the external development resources.
There are plenty of open source software options available today that would have allowed the production of these videos.
I would have loved to use Linux software/hardware, but you show me options back in January that handled multitrack, very large amounts of video without crashing and dying, and needing for me to do cartwheels to achieve simple edits. I spent months researching this stuff, and it really boiled down to the fact that to get something out there, and for it to actually be reliable, and for me not to spend lifetimes editing single videos, this was the better choice IMHO. Kino, for example, doesn't handle large video well at all (at least, in my experiences).
There have been some recent developments that look promising which hopefully will be mature for use in LCA2005. This isn't a case of choosing Apple over Linux for religious reasons; it's just an area where the open source offerings still need to mature.
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.
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