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ZDNet Australia: Torvalds Appears at Aust Conference

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“Linux.conf.au delegates can expect a high-profile surprise with
the revelation that Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds is attending their
conference in Perth this week.

“Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and a guru to the open
source community, will join an already high-profile speaker list.
That list includes names such as legendary Linux kernel hackers
Alan Cox, Paul ‘Rusty’ Russell, PHP innovator Rasmus Lerdorf and
OSDN director Jeff Bates.

“This year’s conference is set to be one of the biggest in
Australia, with 359 registered attendees. According to Jeff Waugh,
Gnome project coordinator and one of the guest speakers at the
conference, said ‘linux.conf.au is Australia’s premier
developer-oriented open source and free software conference. It is
a pretty special event for everyone in the community. Meeting
face-to-face with your co-developers is very useful…'”


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