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Linux.conf.au Coming Soon

Posted by Hemos on from the best-show-ever dept.

One of my most favorite Linux-centric shows of all time, Linux.conf.au is gearing up in their latest location - Canberra. The registration is still open; I highly, highly recommend attending the show.

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  1. OOo Regicon Australia by oldosadmin · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe this will also include the first ever OpenOffice.org RegiCon Australia.

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  2. linux.conf.au 2006 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those of you who are wondering where linux.conf.au 2006 is going to be, it will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand

  3. Hop over and check out "The Dish" by DumbSwede · · Score: 4, Informative
    I doubt I will attend, but for those that do you may wish to take a small side trip to the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. It and Parkes Observatory are what brought the first Apollo 11 moon walk Live to the world, being the only dishes of suitable power in proper position to receive the signal. Here is a link to some more info. You could also rent the little known, but well made movie "The Dish"

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  4. Re:Wait a minute by mgv · · Score: 3, Informative

    More likely

    1. Steal a loaf of bread

    2. Get sentenced to 7 years in a place where the seasons were the wrong way round, you were thousands of miles from England and the guards were the dregs of the British army.

    Australia was only a paradise island for a little while, now we're becoming Mini-US.

    Commentry for the majority of /. who live elsewhere:

    Nah, it is paradise here. I've been to a few places, and its good in Oz. The fact that we posess alot of similarities to both the US and the UK doesn't make it bad here.

    In fact, its part of why its good (eg democracy, separation of powers with independentent judiciary).

    The seasons are just fine the way they are here.

    Having said that, Canberra's weather is pretty poor ... Too far inland, it gets very cold in winter and way too hot in summer.

    Canberra is a city thats a compromise in location because they couldn't decide whether to make Sydney or Melbourne the capital, so they built a whole city in a paddock between the two and dug out an artificial lake to make it look pretty. (Ok, it does look pretty, but its still a man made lake).

    Hopefully the weather won't be too bad at the conference, because the whole linuxconf thing has really taken off. I'm sure that this will be alot bigger than the 2003 one in Perth that I went to.

    Michael

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