Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering the topics of Debian, GNOME, education, embedded, virtualisation, MySQL and Research.
Taking it Easy
With the event just warming up, some people eased into the programme.
Distro Couches – Fedora
A definite highlight was seeing the couches that were coloured according to the main Linux distributions. Behold a Fedora:
Distro Couches – Debian
Of course Debian was there:
Distro Couches – openSuSE
The fact that some furniture is made in SuSE green is interesting:
Distro Couches – Ubuntu
How could the flavour of the month be forgotten? (We mean the sofa, not the Perl programmer on it)
Distro Couches – Gentoo
A Gentoo user demands to make their own distro, so therefore you have to start with just a box.
Distro Couches – Gentoo
And get to building it! Hope that they have their USE variables and CFLAGS set cautiously.
Distro Couches – Gentoo
After leaving the chair to “compile” itself for a few hours, it’s all done!
Distro Couches – Gentoo
Just like Gentoo, it may take a while to build, but when you get there it rocks!
Sunswift
This little beauty just broke the Coast to Coast record between Perth and Sydney for a solar car. The old record was 8.5 days and the Sunswift did it 5.5 days! It will be at the LCA Open Day on Thursday from 3pm.
Sunswift
It can seat two people. But where?
Stargate
With this many geeks in one spot there has to be at least one sci-fi reference