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Klagenfurter Linuxday 2005 was nice. Some guys (including grml-developers) drove from Graz to Klagenfurt. Starting with the talk “Software-Entwicklungstools unter Linux” (software development tool @ linux) August Hörandl mentioned the tool scons:

SCons is an Open Source software construction tool - that is, a next-generation
build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic
Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and
compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and
faster way to build software.

— www.scons.org

I’ve never heard of scons before but it seems to be a nice tool I should take a closer look at. August also mentioned CHILL (CCITT High Level Language), a general procedural programming language which is mainly used in the field of telecommunications. According to August many telecommunication companies in austria still develop applications written in CHILL. Nice talk by August!

Afterwards I had my grml-workshop. The audience was ranging from beginners – who have never seen a commandline so far – to advanced users and experts (hello gebi and jimmy ;-)). So it was quite hard to provide an interesting talk for all listeners but according to feedback it was ok. The 50 grml-CDs sponsored by Chello UPC Telekom are all given away already. ;-)

Afterwards I took part of Rene Mayrhofer’s workshop Linux Security where he presented his Linux-Live-CD-firewall Gibraltar. I’ve seen his talk quite often and do know Gibraltar – so not that much news for me ;-) but Rene is an excellent speaker and did his job perfect as usual. In the meanwhile I also took a look at my google-slides from Grazer LinuxTage 2004 due to I was asked to hold it instead of Michael Trappitsch’s “Softwarepatente”-lecture who could not hold his talk. Many people had several questions about google-stuff, after my talk I nearly had no voice left anymore. :-/

Now I’m back at home, working on grml once again ;-) and packing my bags to be able to drive to Graz tomorrow.

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