Marcus D. Hanwell's Blog

I gave a talk on the Linux file system back in November last year to the local Sheffield LUG and kept meaning to put it online so that people who missed it or were interested could access it. So after quite a delay here it is I think it is all factually correct but as with everything in life there are no guarantees.

It was of course written using open source tools and presented on my Acer Ferrari 4005 laptop. It seemed to go down well and sparked off quite a bit of discussion. The guy who requested the talk wasn't actually at the meeting though - so may be you can take a look at it now. I have placed the PDF here for all those who would like to take a look.

Well after reading Diego's post about VMWare server I thought I would have to check that one out myself. I tried out Mike's original ebuilds in bug 56881, but haven't had chance to try out the updated ebuilds in the new bug he opened. I would like to thank Mike for all his work, the ebuilds worked fine on my dual core amd64 SMP system and I have been happily making a few test VMs with it.

This should be great for being able to play with bleeding edge environments in their own sandboxes and easily letting other people try out Gentoo without install whether they are using Linux or Windows. I just need some more disk space now!