busy, busy busy.

That’s been my past month.

linux.conf.au (yeap, that’s the website too) was great – and so were the parts of perth I saw.

Such notable things happened as:

• Met a whole bunch of cool people
• went down the pub
• tried microbrew of KK’s
• Had lunch with Linus
• became Vice President of Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au)
• hacked some filesystem/vfs code in the kernel (and actually did something remotely productive that i’ve got to send a patch in for)
• admitted that all the productive stuff in the kernel i had done was just cleanups
• discovered that melbourne water tastes better than perth water
• saw fireworks on australia day
• took a load of photos (which will get on the web soon)

been doing more documentation and examining of portability issues on Walnut as well. I’m desperately trying to resist the urge to say “let’s just rewrite the whole bloody thing”. There’s some code in there which needs some major reworking.

As Rusty has known to have said: “Kernel Hackers Get The Babes”

He since revised this to: “Toolchain Hackers Get The Babes”

(un)fortunately it looks like working on Walnut requires both. Just trying to work out wtf is going on is enough for a summer project. This is basically what I’m doing.