Dave Miller of Red Hat has published three presentations from his keynote speech at the LCA Linux kernel conference which cover the Linux port to the SPARC64 Niagara architecture (Dave Miller is a long term primary SPARC port developer and maintainer) as well as two presentations covering Kernel Developer Social Interactions and TCP/IP networking.
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Member since:2005-07-08
The Group Policy that is used here prevents us from installing software on the Windows machines provided to us. I just have to wait to get home (where I have far less time) to read the documents.
If nothing else Dave could have published the presentations as a PDF (OpenOffice can create PDF files). Almost any platform can open PDF files and not use the "evil" Microsoft Office formats.
Member since:2005-07-06
If nothing else Dave could have published the presentations as a PDF (OpenOffice can create PDF files).
Very true. This hadn't occured to me, but it would be a good addition next to the .odp files.
MS files are not "evil" in themselves, but asking people to buy pretty expensive software just to read some text...
I just have to wait to get home (where I have far less time) to read the documents.
Hmm, less time at home than at work? Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? Nah, just kidding.
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2005-07-06
It might have been nice if Dave would have posted the articles in something other than OpenOffice formats for those people who do not or cannot install OpenOffice.
Well, documents stored in the standardised Open Document Format, in this case Open Document Presentation, is a lot more accessible to both non-MS and MS users than just slapping the closed proprietary powerpoint slides online.
Too bad for those who can't install OpenOffice.org (if the computer is not theirs to administer).
For all those who don't install OpenOffice.org for ideological/political reasons, you don't value the content enough to overcome your resentment of a libre Office Suite (which I think should (for the time being) be mandatory on every PC to be able to communicate in an unencumbered format).