I’m sitting up the back of the Fedora Miniconf where I have access to power and the wireless. Net has been problematic, but hopefully is much better now. We are a mixture of sysadmins, developers, integrators and students. Quite a few from Red Hat (from many different locations).

It is interesting spying on what laptops are being used. Not so many MacBooks as LCA2006. Spotted a couple of EeePCs, an OLPC XO and a N800, then there’s the Dells and Lenovos and MacBooks.

Rough notes dumped onto the wiki.

Topics covered:

• Creating RPMs — Richard Keech, Red Hat
• Migrating to Fedora Directory Service — Del Elson, Babel
• The kernel in Fedora — Dave Jones, Red Hat
• SystemTap — Eugene Teo, Red Hat
• Samba and LDAP using FDS — Del Elson, Babel
• Fedora Internationalization — Jens Petersen, Red Hat
• Provisioning RHEL and Fedora — Richard Keech, Red Hat

A key work-related factoid from Dave Jone’s talk is the on-disk structure for Ext4 is not yet locked down, but will be in the 2.6.25 kernel. 2.6.25 should be released in April. Fedora 9 will pick it up before its release in May even though this is quite late in the release cycle. I’m not sure if that means ext4 will be available in Fedora 9 as Dave said he was wanting to see the -devel designation dropped from the module first.