ZDNET Australia: Linux.conf.au Day One: Less Hype More Code

“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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