The conference raised $40,000 Australian dollars (US$27,257), including money bid to have Torvalds shave the 27-year-old beard of Bdale Garbee, a computer specialist who works with Linux and is the Linux CTO of HP. The before, during and after work by Torvalds was caught in . 

After the conference, Torvalds decided to insert Tuz into the kernel.

"There are a lot of reasons why developers create open source software. Beyond the fact that it's simply fun, many of us are motivated by a desire to make the world a better place. The strong support in the development community for causes like the Tasmanian devil shows that this desire to improve the world goes beyond the creation of great, free software. It's something we can all be proud of," said Corbet.

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