At leat at present junction, it's a "no", although of course I cannot stop confused people from packaging it. Things that concern me about Eucalyptus: * Lack of any kind of willingness to work with the outsiders, unless they are of course Ubuntu. It's even documented . You want to eat crumbs off someone's else table? I sure don't. * Crazy Xensource-like premature commercialization with Eucalyptus...

One day I will learn to pack lightly for a show, eschewing the overload of effects-drenching for a simplicity and minimalist approach. Today is not that day. Prepared for (including changing 9v batteries in several effects boxes) tonight's show. Moved the rig downstairs, load up car later. Details repeated from http://badger.livejournal.com/1575802.html : This Friday (October 2) Alison Overton...

Once again, FOSDEM was a great event. It was the first chance since last year's FUDCon Brno for a large number of the Europen Fedora contributors to get together, and to bring a few folks from outside of Europe (like Tom Callaway and Greg DeKoenigsberg) to the event as well. For me, FOSDEM was also the opportunity to throw away the talk that I gave a bunch of times in 2008, and replace it with a...

Seen in Greg DeK.'s post today: As anyone who's been following OLPC knows, the failure of this year's Give One Get One program left OLPC with a huge budget shortcoming, and OLPC responded by laying off a lot of really good people. I seriously considered XO, moreso after the G1G1 program was established at Amazon. But it was difficult to justify a $400 PC with 800x600 screen (not to mention...