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Kernel Summit Wrapup

Posted by chrisd on from the free-jeff-garzik dept.

Jonathan Corbet at LWN has posted a terrific summary of the first Day of the Ottawa Kernel Summit, and you should expect the second day soon. In it he relates the greatest hits of the first day's talks, including the AMD Hammer Port, Block I/O, Modules, and more. For mp3s or oggs of this event, check out the Kernel Summit MP3 Repository on SourceForge. The big news is the desire to feature freeze 2.5 within 4 or 5 months. Halloween. I've posted a very small gallery of the group pictures from the summit on my site.

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  1. Re:will firewire ever work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really? if i plug in a firewire hard drive, i can mount it?

    It doesn't seem to work. Neither does my camera. Or my CDRW.

    I guess i'm too stupid for this linux stuff. Back to my mac.. i'm not nearly 1337 enough for this crowd.

  2. Holy Mary Mother of God by soulsteal · · Score: 2, Funny
    http://images.dibona.com/pictures/showpic/index.sh tml?Kernel02/convs/6x4_dscn4027.jpg


    You see that whole back row? The uber-dorks have matured!

  3. Re:what a waste of human effort by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Would you really rather have them come over and mess up BSD? It's like when you're a kid, and you build a kick ass sandcastle. You don't want younger kids to come over and mess it up, do you?

    I say let them build their own sand castle, and knock it down and rebuild it as often as they like.

  4. Re:modules, and why Rusty is wrong: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The end result is that I should be able to get a diskette from a hardware vendor that contains a nice driver.o file that I can load. If it comes with a driver.c file, then that's great, but I want a .o that I can just use right away.

    Well, y'see, there's this OS called Windows, made by this guy Gates... it might suit you better.