Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online 48
An anonymous reader writes "Despite the floods, linux.conf.au 2011 went ahead in Brisbane. Videos of the talks given at the conference are available via blip.tv. Highly recommended are Vint Cerf's keynote and Keith Packard's talk on X and the future of Linux graphics."
Transcripts (Score:5, Insightful)
Bugger the video formats, where are the transcripts?
I could either spend half a day watching them or 5-10 min reading. You guys may have all day; I don't.
Re:So where is all the documentation? (Score:1, Insightful)
That's because you're a fucking tool.
FYI You're one of those guys who just doesn't get it.
Re:This one got me... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:This one got me... (Score:5, Insightful)
One downside to continually removing functionality from X and putting it into the kernel is that X becomes far less capable on non-Linux platforms. The BSDs, Solaris, even Darwin have benefited from OS-independent hardware support in X.
Also, I remember a time when Linux kernel and X developers derided Microsoft for integrating their kernel and graphics layers so tightly...