Linux

Congratulations are due to the Opened Hand team after being acquired by Intel today. They have, and are continuing to do a great job with the Moblin platform leveraging Intel's atom processor.

Hopefully this means projects like clutter will get even more of a push towards mainstream and that can only benefit the community as a whole.

Well done.

Day two is now over.

Much the same as yesterday, hands on sessions a little two 'noddyish' for me but the talks were fantastic.

My favourite from today was given by a representative of a local company.

So day one of Linux Boot Camp is over. On reflection, day one was a mixed bag. The hands on sessions seem to set the bar too low and I would of liked to have seen at least a 'good to very good' knowledge of Linux being the minimum standard. I was racing ahead on much of the material and getting a little bored with some of the other discussions.

So Diablo has been released. Wasting no time I set about installing the new SDK under my distribution of choice, Ubuntu Hardy. The process is pretty painless thanks to the installer scripts but there are a few little gotcha's that you need to look out for.

Next week (Monday 30th) I will be attending a 2 1/2 day conference/workshop at the Bristol Institute of Technology, Bristol, UK titled 'Linux Boot Camp'. I quote, 'The event will involve two and a half days of technical workshops exploring many aspects of modern technology and the use of free open source software'.

It will be nice to meet old and new friends there so if you are attending, come and say 'hi'.