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Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online

Posted by timothy on from the use-dash-flip-as-necessary dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite the floods, linux.conf.au 2011 went ahead in Brisbane. Videos of the talks given at the conference are available via blip.tv. Highly recommended are Vint Cerf's keynote and Keith Packard's talk on X and the future of Linux graphics."

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  1. Transcripts by Lproven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bugger the video formats, where are the transcripts?

    I could either spend half a day watching them or 5-10 min reading. You guys may have all day; I don't.

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    Liam P. ~ "Intelligence is a lethal mutation." (me)
  2. Re:So where is all the documentation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's because you're a fucking tool.

    FYI You're one of those guys who just doesn't get it.

  3. Re:This one got me... by JonJ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I chuckled a bit at the response he got: "Yeah, they showed up in the kernel!"

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    -- Linux user #369862
  4. Re:This one got me... by Eil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One downside to continually removing functionality from X and putting it into the kernel is that X becomes far less capable on non-Linux platforms. The BSDs, Solaris, even Darwin have benefited from OS-independent hardware support in X.

    Also, I remember a time when Linux kernel and X developers derided Microsoft for integrating their kernel and graphics layers so tightly...