[K12OSN] OT: LinuxCon 2011

Terrell Prude' Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Mon Aug 22 10:49:58 UTC 2011


Sounds like fun, and Vancouver, BC is a lovely city.  Glad you enjoyed it!

--TP


Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I have many friends on this list so please excuse this email for being
> off topic.
>
> LinuxCon was just held in Vancouver Canada, my hometown. I really
> enjoyed it, especially the people. As Eben put it
> "There IS real strength in community".
> The food was great, the gala party was awesome too. What a band!
>
> Technically, I did learn a lot about filesystem best practices for
> various workloads. That was interesting. Also learned about some new
> and cool monitoring/benchmarking tools and some Python resources.
>
> Discovered OSUOSL http://osuosl.org/
> and the people behind it http://osuosl.org/about/people
> and their story
> http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/486133-a-look-at-oregon-state-universitys-open-source-lab
>
> I forgot to get a photo with Greg Kroah-Hartman (stable Kernel tree
> maintainer). Oh well maybe next time. But we did chat for a bit.
> Here are my photos
> https://picasaweb.google.com/robark/LinuxCon2011?authuser=0&feat=directlink
>
> Yes I finally met Linus. I had a permanent smile for 2 hours after
> that. Also having lunch with Jon "Maddog" Hall was fun too.
>
> Cheers
>
>   




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