Using open source to add features to your car

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" Now he has turned his attention to cars - and his experiments form the subject of a paper he will be presenting at the forthcoming 10th Australian national Linux conference (LCA 2009) to be held in Hobart from January 19 to 24.

"Oxer has named the project Geek My Ride and is working on it with Jared 'Flame' Herbohn, a friend, fellow enthusiast and hacker.

"Known for his software work - he runs a web development company called Internet Vision Technologies and is a developer for the free Debian GNU/Linux project - back in 1990, Oxer was very much into auto electronics."

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