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Robyn Bergeron's Fedora talk.

As you may know I'm a big Fedora fanboi and I really enjoyed meeting and listening to the new Fedora Project Leader talk. Robyn found out the projector in the room was dead but that was ok as she wasn't planning on using slides anyway. I really enjoyed the frankness of her talk and can see why she was picked to be the new FPL.

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LFNW2012-The_Fedora_Talk-Robyn_Bergeron.webm (233.1MB)

David Mandel's Teaching Linux and Linux System Administration as Distance Education Classes.

I arrived right as the talk was starting and during the first minute or so I am franticly setting up the camera. Sorry about that. There is quite a bit of interaction between David and several audience members who also teach Linux in an academic setting. I teach a Linux SysAdmin class myself and enjoyed this. It was on the later track on the second day so it was allowed to run a bit long. Enjoy.

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LFNW2012-Teaching_Linux_via_Distance_Ed-David_Mandel.webm (361.4MB)

Deb Nicholson's Software Patents: What You Can Do.

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LFNW2012-Software_Patents-Deb_Nicholson.webm (394.4MB)

Max Mether's High Availability for MySQL.

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LFNW2012-MySQL_HA_Solutions-Max_Mether.webm (304.6MB)

Will Sterling's Linux Logical Volume Manager Advanced Topics.

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LFNW2012-LVM_Advanced_Topics-Will_Sterling.webm (244.4MB)

Oscar Baechler's introduction to Calligra Krita

As you may be able to make out from the poster image, Oscar is running Krita on Microsoft Windows 7. He wanted to show the new 2.4 release and had trouble getting it for his preferred Linux distro and had to settle due to time constraints.

While Oscar is fairly new to Krita, he is a very skilled and experienced digital artist and didn't take long to adapt to it (1 week). With his Wacom tablet, he makes it look easy. Room conditions and video resolution / quality make it hard to see some finer details so make sure to have your own copy of Krita active so you can play with it as you watch, pause, watch this video.

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LFNW2012-Krita-Oscar_Baechler.webm (307.5MB)

Larry Cafiero's Introduction to CrunchBang.

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LFNW2012-CrunchBang-Larry_Cafiero.webm (280.8MB)

The eagle has landed.

Other videos:

Techcrunch Live at CES - Unveiled talks to Ed McNierney about the XO 3.0 tablet

Engadget - OLPC's XO 3.0 tablet hands-on

The Verge - OLPC XO 3.0 tablet preview

Gizmodo - OLPC XO 3.0 Hands On: The $100 Wonder Tablet

OLPC TV - OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012

At Montana State University - Bozeman, they use Camtasia Relay for lecture capture and distribution. I wasn't even aware that there was an open source alternative until I saw an "Ask Slashdot" type article where someone asked about lecture capture software... but yes indeed there is the Opencast Community / Projects and the system they have produced, Matterhorn. Check out the embedded video below which is an introduction. As far as I can tell, it (only) offers Flash-based video but I'm relatively new to it and haven't gotten all the details yet. So far as its capabilities and features go, it seems quite impressive.

I threw together a quick screencast that shows the recently released Pear OS Linux 3.0 "Panther" in action. Pear OS Linux is stylistically patterned after (some would say ripped off from) Mac OS X. It is my understanding that this is based on a customized GNOME 3.2 that shows yet again, just how malleable GNOME 3 can be with some effort.

Please excuse the SPICE connection glitches witnessed in the video. I generally don't run into issues with SPICE but this setup was a bit different with the visual affects that are turned on by default in Pear OS.

pear-os-linux-3.0-demo.webm (22.3 MB)