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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. Sad ... by Schwarzy · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... that I need access to a computer with ADOBE Flash installed to watch this.

    1. Re:Sad ... by DarthJohn · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wait, what?

      "I see play episode as:" followed by a combo box with three different formats to choose from: flv, ogg and mp4.

      Also, off to the right is "Files and Links." I expanded that and right clicked on the ogg links and am downloading about 5 videos now. I plan to watch them with totem.

    2. Re:Sad ... by Inf0phreak · · Score: 2

      You know you can download the videos from blip.tv, right? And they play perfectly fine in mplayer or vlc.

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  2. 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)
    1. Re:Transcripts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Flash only? What about Ogg!"
      "They have Ogg stuff up, but what about transcripts?"
      "They have transcripts up, but what about transcript translations?"
      "They have transcripts up in all major languages, but what about captions?"
      "What about captions in other languages?"
      "What about translations to Esperanto and Latin for future posterity?"
      "Can someone write a MMIX player so these videos will be playable anytime into the future?"

  3. This one got me... by toxygen01 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "We have removed 5 hundred thousand lines from X server core, did anybody notice?"

    1. Re:This one got me... by Beelzebud · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah and then he mentioned that there was still around 500,000 lines of code that "isn't doing very much". It was a great talk overall. I am actually very happy to see that the X server finally seems to be in the process of being phased out, or at least made less mandatory for a desktop system. Things like removing keyboard and mouse input from it are music to my ears.

    2. 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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    3. 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...