Day 2 @ Foss.in
Third day at Foss.in.
The project days came to end. Here starts the Main conference. The inauguration was at 10AM. As it became a habit to come late, we missed the inaugural ceremony, but we managed to get in before the inaugural session by Naba Kumar on topic titled “Anjuta DevStudio” , a C++ IDE created by him (Anjuta is name of his wife).
Another sessions I attended were,
1. “Lguest: Implementing the little Linux hypervisor” by the great Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russel, Lguest provides a full paravirtualization mechanism for Linux.
2. “Plan 9 from Bell labes” by Anant Narayanan, A student of Malaviya NIT. He covered the highlights of the distributed operating system from bell labs named Plan9 which is different from familiar Linux/Unix and windows environment. More than any thing it was a call for contribution. The first statement he mentioned to begin the call is “Be prepared to Unlearn what you have learned so far” 
3. “Contributing to Zope Project” by Baiju M, who started SMC project. Zope is an application server based on python for building content management systems. It was a call for contribution.
4. “How and why you should become a kernel hacker” by James Morris a well known kernel hacker. One of his interesting statements was, “There is a myth that kernel hackers are mutant super geniuses. Yes there are very few, but most are just good engineers”. He pointed the ways to become a good kernel hacker. Yes it was exceptionally interesting.
In the evening Hiran went to his sister’s home. In that night I felt more space in the bed as because the big person was not there in between me and Suresh .