Linux Conference 2007

News

• Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying

  Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the technology was a lot of "hot air". Read more »

• Hard to be positive on new IP laws says lawyer

  Law professor and intellectual property (IP) expert Kimberlee Weatherall has described the latest changes to IP law as horrible Read more »

• Linux Australia honours IP lawyer

  Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall was honoured with an award for service to the open source community Read more »

Blogs

• Builder AU Blogs

• LCA Opening Day

  Distro chairs, gentoo, solar cars plus Jonathon Oxer. And that's before things really get going! Read more »

• Day Two Done and Dusted

  All in all it was a very good day and we are not even half way yet.. Read more »
• Community Blogs

• More photos of l.c.a, Day 2

  It's Wednesday, and I feel more than ever that the conference needs a half time rest day. I fell asleep on the floor of my college writing this entry. Read more »

• OLPC streaming

  The OLPC only does video capturing, then throws the raw frames on the wireless Ad-Hoc network of my laptop. My laptop does the encoding and streaming. The network gives up once in a while, but it looks doable enough to demo this at my Flumotion talk at LCA this Friday. Read more »

• LCA Talk #1: Done

  Just did my first talk at LCA, this one about Jokosher. An updated version of my GUADEC 2006 talk, it covers the history of Jokosher, how it came about, thoughts on UI design and where we are going Read more »

• linux.conf.au

  Just beginning day two of linux.conf.au. It's been pretty hectic so far, and I'm already low on sleep. Still fearing Thursday's tutorial. Read more »

Recent Articles

• Microsoft: only minor tweaks in Windows 7 SP1

  Breaking its silence on the first service pack for Windows 7, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will include only minor updates, including many already released.  Read more »

• Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7

  A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year.  Read more »

• Microsoft nixes barrier to Windows 7's 'XP mode'

  Although Windows 7's "XP Mode" has been a welcome feature of the new operating system, there's been a fair bit of confusion brought on by the virtualisation layer's hardware requirements.  Read more »

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Photo Gallery

• LCA Open Day
  

  Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff

• Mini-Confs Day 2
  

  Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.

• Mini-Confs Day 1
  

  Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics