Virtually There

I have been keeping friends a bit in the dark about this new job I started at the end of August. Now's the day when all is revealed...

I'm at VMware's VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco. There is a variety of VMware news that might be considered "big", but the biggest from my perspective is the open-sourcing of much of VMware Tools, the tools that run inside the guest operating system to make the guest run better and handle the guest-side integration with the host OS. Think drag-and-drop between guest & host, automatic clock synchronization, etc...

The new project, Open Virtual Machine Tools is not such big news as far as the open source community , but VMware is big enough that this small change should matter to quite a few people. For example, I just ran into Marty Wesley of rPath, and no doubt the hackers over there will be very happy to hear this announcement, since it will make their work easier. And I get to help increase the amount of open source software, which is partly why I came here. :)

There is plenty of work to be done on all fronts, so if you're interested in joining in, make sure to sign up for the mailing lists.

Fedora Passes the Grandmother Test

I've posted a few interesting photos from the past week or so, including one that illustrates that Fedora has passed the "grandmother test" :-) (Now if only I had a few months to dedicate to actually teaching her Linux...)