I was kinda disappointed with this talk. The first speaker basically just said, “big companies! give debian money!”, and as the audience tried to understand why, he couldn’t really give good reasons. The question “what, exactly, are your goals as regard to corporations — what do you want?” was posed several times in different forms, [...]

Presented by Dave Jones, another good talk. Some notes: Fedora is going to start providing a vanilla upstream kernel in their yum repos to make reproducing bugs easier. This solves the problem of, “oh, you saw a problem in fedora? does it reproduce upstream?” Any distro that maintains custom patches should implement this solution. Fedora [...]

Martin Krafft gave this talk, and I found it to be pretty good. Among the things he presented that I found interesting: debtags — I guess this has been around for a while now, but I never knew about it. Basically, it allows people to add tags to the zillions of debian packages. The canonical [...]

So, the first day of LCA 2008 is winding down, and the first day has been somewhat hectic, between registration (nice schwag bag!), figuring out what mini-confs to go to, and trying to find other HP folks, it’s been an action packed Monday. We’ve had a little snafu with the wireless, with some rooms presenting [...]