Linux

I will be attending the CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe next week (Thursday and Friday). This time I'll be taking in the sights and sounds as I won't be speaking at the event. If anyone else is there and would like to meet up for a coffee/tea/beer then get in touch, it will be nice to catch up with old friends and hopefully meet new ones.

Lately there has been a lot of talk about commercial contributions to the Linux kernel, specifically from distribution vendors.

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon, Greg Kroah-Hartman of Linux kernel fame recently took a swipe, specifically at Canonical (blog post - google video). Now this may (or may not) come as a shock to you but the most popular Linux distribution (number 1 at distrowatch for many a moon) doesn't seem to 'give back'. In retaliation people have come out to defend Ubuntu but this got me thinking, where does Maemo and Nokia stand with regards to Linux kernel contributions?

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.