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."

ya know

[Illserve]

When people poke fun at /. they make up stories just like this.

Part of the miracle of Linus is...

[leonbrooks]

...that he takes it all in his stride. Today, he made a suggestion about Saturday's events and a specific large software company which clearly shows that:

• He's not taking himself too seriously (no swelled head)
  
• He's managing the excessive attention itself well (certainly several orders of mangitude better than I would)

Re:Havoc Pennington will do the keynote

[Anonymous Coward]

And what's wrong with a standardized configuration editor and GUI?

Having gazillion different widget kits and configurations is a cancer within Linux.

Re:Linus

[JaredOfEuropa]

He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy..

Modded as Funny, but it's simple truth (the first part anyway). What's the big deal with Linus visiting this or that town or university, if he's not there to hold a lecture or speak at some event? Sure, it might be interesting if you'd be able to sit down at the bar with him and chat... but would you want half the geek population to come running after you if you were Linus? *sigh*

Now if it was Bill Gates, I would want to know. I'd drive over to the location of his last sighting, and pick up a nice pie on the way ;-)