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I arrived just in time to attend 3 talks - the first one by Jonathan Corbet (of Linux Device Driver’s and lwn.net fame) on kernel synchronization techniques. The topic is sufficiently complex to be covered as a full length tutorial of maybe more than 2 hours - there was little time to go through […]

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Got to attend some talks on Day 3. There was one on the Xen virtual machine monitor - it was fun watching all three of Debian, FreeBSD and NetBSD running on top of Xen!

Sarath, a 11th standard student from Kerala gave a talk on building Knoppix based LiveCD’s - I think he was accompanied […]

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I had wanted to attend Jonathan’s talk on The Linux Kernel Roadmap, but arrived very late. I asked Vidyaraj and Unni to go and attend as many talks as possible while I would stay near the Phoenix stall to engage visitors. So Day 2 passed by without me attending any of the talks […]

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FOSS.IN began yesterday (29th). Atul gave a short inaugural speech which was followed by a talk by Alan Cox on general FOSS development issues - it was completely non technical. Soon after, the technical talks section started - there were parallel talks in six separate halls.
I had to be in the FOSS expo stall […]

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Arrived here (Bangalore) early morning - met Vidyaraj and Unni at 9:30 in front of Gangaram’s book shop. I had a heavy laptop and a BIG bag containing two Phoenix boxes and assorted circuitry - packed everything in an auto and went straight to Bangalore palace. Things were not yet ready and it was […]

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Arrived in Bangalore just now to participate in

Two students, Unnikrishnan and Vidyaraj are expected to join me at 9:30. We will be
demonstrating Phoenix at the FOSS
Expo.

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