FOSDEM, day 1

So, as I said previously, I'm at FOSDEM right now, sitting in the KDE boot, with some Amarok guys, Joos demo'ing all around, Marijn working on KDE and Adriaan hacking on the KDE4-branded SOLARIS thin client.

Personal impressions on some talks of day 1:

• Linux in Hollywood: interesting how all the modern graphics for movies is all based on Linux, even if just for the rendering farms. A long-ish list of proprietary computer graphics applications for Linux is a nice way to tell the world that Linux can actually be used even for serious stuff
• Interesting update on the current status of FreeBSD an its community, and how they still use CVS (sigh), but using Preforce to work more reliably with branches and such
• Status on software patents: another good occasion to stress on the topic, recaling that the real issue is the patents _on software_
• Linkat: an OpenSuSE-based distribution, targetting catalan schools (its primary language is catalan), and providing many services around it. It is interesting how they provide catalan documentation for the distro and the applications; I'm taking contact with them so they can hopefully share their material about KDE-Edu applications with us (KDE-Edu)
• Sadly lost Enrico Zini's talk about Xapian, the room was damn full, not even the space for throwing the head in the room...
• Followed MadCoder's talk about using GIT to fully maintain a Debian package, for all original sources, debian directory and patches to it