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 EasyWith the event just warming up, some people eased into the programme.
Distro Couches - FedoraA definite highlight was seeing the couches that were coloured according to the main Linux distributions. Behold a Fedora:
Distro Couches - DebianOf course Debian was there:
Distro Couches - openSuSEThe fact that some furniture is made in SuSE green is interesting:
Distro Couches - UbuntuHow could the flavour of the month be forgotten? (We mean the sofa, not the Perl programmer on it)
Distro Couches - GentooA Gentoo user demands to make their own distro, so therefore you have to start with just a box.
Distro Couches - GentooAnd get to building it! Hope that they have their USE variables and CFLAGS set cautiously.
Distro Couches - GentooAfter leaving the chair to "compile" itself for a few hours, it's all done!
Distro Couches - GentooJust like Gentoo, it may take a while to build, but when you get there it rocks!
SunswiftThis 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.
SunswiftIt can seat two people. But where?
StargateWith this many geeks in one spot there has to be at least one sci-fi reference
About Chris Duckett
Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic advent...
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer.Leaving CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada, Chris based himself in Vancouver and paid for his new snowboarding and poutine cravings as a programmer for a lifestyle gaming startup.Chris returns to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.In his free time, Chris is often seen yelling at different operating systems for their own unique failures, avoiding the dreaded tech support calls from relatives, and conducting extensive studies of internets — he claims he once read an entire one.
