Linus Sighted At LCA2004

leonbrooks writes "Yes! Third year in a row! The penguinmeister has entered the building! Posting from lecture theatre LG28 at the University of Adelaide, we have confirmed that Linus Torvalds has once more blessed us with his presence. Solid proof that Australia truly is The Lucky Country. (-:" And an anonymous reader adds: "Linus will be here for a week at linux.conf.au but not presenting anything. If you want to see him, maybe you guys should come down to South Australia and register for linux.conf.au 2004."

Havoc Pennington will do the keynote

[Anonymous Coward]

Havoc of Red Hat/Gnome/freedesktop/ex-Debian fame will be there too delivering the keynote AFAIK. He has some interesting things to say, so people listen up. :)

I'm in LG28 too

[anonymous coword]

Yes, i seen him too. He is running SuSE linux 9.0 on a Sony VAIO laptop. Me too. He is working on some patches for Kerenel 2.4.25 when I seen him. There are a lot of people here, with all sorts of computers and laptops. Some running Windows, Some running BSD, some even running Mac OS 9, but I didn't see OSX.

This place is great. I will update you with more details over the next few days here at LCA2004.

Re:Linus

[Jacco de Leeuw]

The person who moderated this as offtopic does not understand humour or should go out more [imdb.com] :-)

Chick magnet? Well, probably 20 or 30 shielas

[leonbrooks]

OTOH, that's only Day One.

First photos (no, not just of the chix, settle down!) and a walkthrough going up on the site in the next 12 hours or so.

The Audio Miniconf has been a hoot, and ain't over yet. Also, educationaLinux has (sometimes) had the audience riveted, and even sessions as specialised as IPv6 are drawing an attentive crowd. Turn up to educationaLinux tomorrow [adam.com.au] and you not only get to see lil' ol' me present, but also Lindsay Holmwood's security talk has been pushed back into Tuesday.

Why stop there?

[leonbrooks]

B'dale Garbee is here too, and Rusty, and Tridge, and Conrad Parker, Russell Coker, Chris Yeoh, Jon Oxer, Maddog, Job Corbet, Nick Bannon, James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Sylvia Pfeiffer, Con Zymaris, Glen Turner, Ananth Mavinakayanahalli, Hugh Blemings, Janis Johnson, Jeremy Allison, Groggy Lehey, Jeff "jdub" Waugh, Rasmus Lerdorf, Trent "Lathiat" Lloyd, Jeremy Malcolm, Mark Tearle, Bernard Blackham, it's turning into a regular who's who.

And here's a postcard of Tux climbing the "Heroin Needle/Crashed Spaceship" communications tower Godzilla-style, telling us that Canberra [linux.org.au] have the 2005 conf. And they certainly have the balls for it: big concrete ones along the edges of some of their roads.

He announced going to Australia..

[tsager]

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:49:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Linux-2.6.1

Ok, the diffs from -rc3 are minimal, most noticeably the (very _very_ hard
to trigger, but nasty if you ever did) fork() race that Ingo found.

I'm going to be in Australia (and on airplanes) for the week, but we're
all in the capable hands of Andrew, so why worry? The fact that I'm
fleeing the country should in no way be construed as anything sinister at
all, no siree. Nope. I'm innocent, and nobody saw me do it.

The full changelog is getting uploaded right now along with the release,
and the BK trees have already been pushed.

Up up and away,

Linus

Re:Just the guys?

[Hieronymus Howard]

i could only recognise two that looked vaugly as women. #1 = front row, center, really bad dress sense

Who is married to guy in middle row, center with Red Hat and really bad beard sense! Some of you might recognise him.

HH
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