LCA2007 - End of Day 2
We have had a pretty good 2 days so far at LCA. As I expected, I flittered between the Virtualisation, Gnome and Debian mini-confs. I learned a lot from Jon Oxer’s talk on Xen Image Manager. Probably most interesting was learning about recent glue tools such as ATA over Ethernet ( a poor man’s iSCSI), drbd ( A Network RAID-1) and Unison (a better rsync). Anyway it certainly has some good ideas for building reasonably sophisticated data centres on a budget.
We also heard a little about the OLPC project from Chris Blizzard’s keynote - and catching up with James Cameron at morning tea meant that we could actually have closeup look at the one he has been testing in the bush. 
At lunch I was able take a ride on Geoffrey Bennett’s open source segway clone.
Jono Bacon exemplified the value of open source development, talking about the audio editor Jokosher that spawned as a result of the need to fill a niche for a multi-track editor that mortals could use.
Anyway a pretty good days so far!