Last weekends LinuxForum was really good – I especially enjoyed the PHK talk about varnish.
But also Brian Vinter’s talk about the Cell CPU was awesome. The idea that current CPU designs only use 5% of their power to do actual computing, while the rest is spend on branch prediction and caching strategies… amazing.
On Saturday I manned the gentoo ‘booth’ – we definitively need be better prepared next time! I guess people could hardly recognize what we where representing. As a consequence we were asked a lot if IBM notebooks where any good – as the booth sported somewhere between two to five of those at any one time.
We also had a nice chat with an ubuntu guy – among others we dispelled the old myth of compiling from source, because the programs then will run faster. I guess there are still a lot of people out there spreading this BS. g2boojum fits it rather nicely into:
We’re less rules-bound, we tend to favor pragmatism over ideological purity, and we favor flexibility and power over stability.
It was really cool to get to know dercorny and eroyf and jaervosz – i really need to meet more dev’s more often. (Sorry Alexander for not being there on wednesday!)
On the otherhand have i gotten hold of a personal dev overlay. genstef outfitted me with the bangert overlay. Thanks a lot.
I have started working on an ebuild for red5 – as I have not done java ebuilds before, that is a bit a challange. I am using the jetty ebuild as a template. Check it out.
Hhm, guess I am starting to get a kick out of this blogging stuff – never expected this to be this long.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Oh yes, next year we’ll hopefully have the eventkit available. That’s going to help us a lot.
Hope to see you soon at one of the SSLUG meetings 😉