fosdem 2005
Feb. 27th, 2005 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pvaneyndI could manage to catch a few debian talks at fosdem today. As traditional Matteo had a bad evening and just after I left there was another little crisis. Still I managed to see 'Porting to Debian GNU variants: Targetting POSIX instead of GNU/Linux' which was interesting to see how people deal with a slightly broken standard that is not ANSI X3J13. Then the composition of the audience changed for 'The Debian Women Project'. It was a nice talk that gave some interesting ideas and opinions about a movement that seems to deserve my full support. Then came 'Free as in DFSG: an exploration of Debian's views on free software'. I actually feared this talk, maybe due to the harshness of debian-legal. But in the end it turned out that in real life debian developers seem less incendiary then in email and I think a fairly balanced view was presented. This gives me some degree of hope that we will exit the current issues without traumatic events.
Then I joined an old colleague for a talk about creating a stable 2.6 kernel from Alan Cox. This was an interesting talk, not only because he is a good speaker and liked the subject, but mainly because it confirmed my general idea that the new 2.6.x kernels are not for general consumption anymore. The kernel developers depend on the fact that most people will use kernels from distributions. This is not good as it will increase the fragmentation of the kernel. It also means that the debian-kernel group is getting more and more important.
Then I joined an old colleague for a talk about creating a stable 2.6 kernel from Alan Cox. This was an interesting talk, not only because he is a good speaker and liked the subject, but mainly because it confirmed my general idea that the new 2.6.x kernels are not for general consumption anymore. The kernel developers depend on the fact that most people will use kernels from distributions. This is not good as it will increase the fragmentation of the kernel. It also means that the debian-kernel group is getting more and more important.
