{"id":29,"date":"2008-07-09T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.19.32.152\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:23:40","slug":"red-hat-summit-and-fudcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat Summit and FUDCon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Hat Summit was great. I manned the Open Source Java booth on the show floor. There was a lot of interest in what we’re doing, and people were impressed to hear that the OpenJDK packages in Fedora pass the TCK. I showed a few IcedTea demos including IcedTea Web Start and gcjwebplugin. Notably, they were running on my daily-use Fedora 9 notebook with the current OpenJDK packages; unlike at previous conferences where I always had to show development versions, this time I just browsed to interesting<\/a> demo<\/a> sites and everything just worked. Knowing that any Fedora 9 machine would run the same demos out-of-the-box was a nice feeling.<\/p>\n

Every single person I talked to about OpenJDK asked me about the plugin. I had to give them an answer with<\/a> caveats<\/a>. Hopfully those caveats can be eliminated<\/a> by Fedora 10, and from then on I can say IcedTea provides a plugin that Just Works.<\/p>\n

I attended talks by Sami Wagiaalla<\/a> (Frysk), Andrew Overholt<\/a> (Eclipse) and Richard Hughes<\/a> (power management). I was already familiar with the first two subjects but I really enjoyed Richard’s talk. I liked his point that GNU\/Linux distributions can beat proprietary operating systems on battery life\/data centre cost because we control the entire stack of software and thus can audit for and patch out wasteful power consumption.<\/p>\n

The Fenway Park tour was terrific, what a quaint stadium! Now I really want to see a game there.<\/p>\n

FUDCon was fun too. Andrew Overholt and I shared a time slot, thanks to the Barcamp format with which I was previously unfamiliar. I gave my IcedTea\/OpenJDK status spiel, which I had honed over the past four days at the Summit. Other talks I attended: Secondary Arches<\/a>, Augeas<\/a>, Kernel, and Upstart<\/a>. All talks indicate Fedora making great progress. FUDCon was the first I had heard of talk.fedoraproject.org<\/a>; nice to hear Paul Frields<\/a> keeping it real by entertaining totally crazy (but maybe brilliant!) ideas like offering free phone support for Fedora. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

All-in-all a fun trip. Nice to be in Boston for the Celtics win, just so I can say I was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Hat Summit was great. I manned the Open Source Java booth on the show floor. There was a lot of interest in what we’re doing, and people were impressed to hear that the OpenJDK packages in Fedora pass the TCK. I showed a few IcedTea demos including IcedTea Web Start and gcjwebplugin. Notably, they … <\/p>\n

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