OpenEmbedded, BeagleBoard, U-Boot and two Linux books I'm currently pre-pub tech reviewing.  And, sadly, I'm out of scotch.  No, wait ... I'm not.  OK, we're good.

And in just over three weeks, we have Ontario Linux Fest.  Fun for the whole family.  More shortly as soon as I finish my next Kernel Newbie Column.  Not leaving it until the last minute this time.

I just got off the phone with one of the community honchos at the Linux Foundation, and I've agreed to write a series of online pieces aimed at the Linux kernel newbie.  I'd explain more here but it's probably easier to just write the first piece and get it up there.

There's no point writing about what you're going to write, when you can just go ahead and write it.  OK, I think I just confused myself.

In short order, I'll be updating the page on how you can, with a minimum of muss and fuss, create, load and run your first kernel module, and possibly adding a few more pages on the end of that for the suitably ambitious.  At some point, there might be a more comprehensive tutorial on the basics of kernel modules and device drivers but these things take time.  Just be patient.

If I ever get some spare time, I'll have to dig into Drupal 7 and maybe just do the big switch.  In the meantime, I have enough Fedora 11 to keep me plenty busy. I'm guessing the new virtualization features alone will cause some late nights.

Yes, the wiki is back in business and this is the latest project.  It's definitely going to take a while.

I'm reading the Fedora online docs regarding virtualization here, and I'm wondering -- should anyone seriously consider doing virtualization without either of the Intel VT or AMD AMD-V virtualization extensions?

I'm not talking about just downloading the virtualization packages and playing, I'm talking about people who want to set up virtualized corporate servers.  Would it make sense to do this on older systems that don't have those extension?

UPDATE:   Apparently, there's not much point if you don't have the CPU extensions.  So speaketh people who know.

What with being busy withTwitter and e-mail and Linked-In and mailing lists, it's still long past due to get this site up and running again.  Stay tuned for cool new colours, and content, and random thoughts resulting from Joycean free association.

Or something like that.