Last month, many Texas Linux aficionados converged on San Antonio for two days of Texas Linux Fest. This was my first time attending TLF, and I'm happy to say that the organizers put on a great event.
There were clearly some heavy themes this year. The first day was filled mostly with Chef 101 and a Chef Hackathon, both run by Opscode. On the second day, I mostly attended events about cloud computing or ARM. I think my favorite talks were those on cgroups by Red Hatter Bob Kozdemba, another on data security in the cloud by Sputnik “alpha cosmonaut” Dustin Kirkland, and Canonicaler David Mandala's talk about Ubuntu on ARM servers. (Really, how does one handle management and IP address allocation—let alone data security—for a rack filled with a thousand microservers?)
Also of interest to me, although in areas with which I'm less familiar, were talks on device trees and open ARM hardware. I think we'll be hearing more about both in the coming years, especially if ARM servers really take off.
The event also had an expo, and I was happy to see several OS vendors and communities represented, including Fedora/Red Hat, Debian, openSUSE, CloudStack, and FreeBSD. Oh, and I was pleased to see that Project Sputnik's work so far has paid off, having sighted a couple XPS 13's running Ubuntu. :-)
If you're in the area next year and have the chance, make sure to check out Texas Linux Fest! Hopefully I'll see you there.
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