“Cheering from Linux users, hacks and hobbyists as Linus
Torvalds was introduced–suited up as the famous Linux icon
Tux–marked the start of a sold-out Linux.conf.au 2003.“That was about the extent of industry hype as the first day of
the conference got underway, with delegates getting together in
various tutorials to exchange ideas on a variety of open source
initiatives.“Rasmus Lerdorf–the PHP creator who claims to ‘hate
programming’–gave what must have been an exhausting six hours of
PHP tutorials in one day…”
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