These photos were taken at the conference dinner of the Linux.conf.au 2004. They're a selection of the complete photos.

Paul Jankowski, Bdale Garbee, Jeremy Allison.

Tess Collins of Apple Computer with Michael Davie and Linus Torvalds reading out the winner of the laptop that Apple donated.

Bdale Garbee, anonymous penguin, Jeremy Allison, Greg Lehey. The penguins had nothing to do with Linux; somebody found them for sale in a local shop, and we don't know what the life ring is about.

Linus and Hugh Blemings prepare to humiliate Rusty.

Rusty takes appropriate action.

Rusty invokes the Lord of the Rings.

Rusty takes pity on the anonymous penguin.

The conference T-shirt, which was auctioned for a ridiculous amount of money.

Maddog gets into the act. I can't remember the issue.