OLS 2008 - Day 3
Yeah, I really wanted to write this yesterday — since it is about yesterday, but I was too tired when I got to the hotel. Either way, here it is.
The day started at 10am again - I love it. Previous years, presentations started at 9am (except the first day that was 10am). The first talk I attended was a about kernel documentation — where it resides, and why the current state is bad. The talk was a bit confusing. At one point, the presenter decided to read some text right from a HTML file — opening it in a text editor instead of a browser. He also seemed to contradict himself a bit … at one point he seemed to have said that HTML was better than plaintext docs, and then some time later, he said the other thing — plaintext docs were better than HTML. I kinda gave up understanding what his point was.
I decided to be lazy, and stayed in the same room for the next talk: On submitting kernel features. I zoned out for quite a bit — I knew a bunch of things already, and it was a bit hard to lex what Andi Kleen (the speaker) was saying.
I was going to go to the ext4 talk. Unfortunately, I got distracted by people on my way to the talk, and before I knew it, I missed most of it. I guess I’ll just have to read the paper.
After lunch, I went to Virtualization of Linux servers: a comparative study. The talk was interesting, and I will read the paper. It showed exactly how much x86 virtualization sucks (at least compared to what’s on the mainframe). I can’t wait to have some time to hack on HVF some more. :)
Then, I got distracted by people, preparation of slides for my BOF about Guilt, pondering about trying SELinux again, etc., etc.
Anyway, I’m going to finish a summary of what happened yesterday later today. Until then…