Its been almost one year since my last post, but that doesn’t mean I have lost my interest in Linux or programming. I have been working on my XPS kernel project until September, but with the release of 09.10, Ubuntu have changed their way of compiling kernel once again, which was a bit of ride trying to figure out how the new process works, took my toll and I moved on from the dreams of custom kernel.
I have put stable release for Ubuntu on my xps laptop (for the first time) instead of test releases. And have been looking into other areas such as application development. So in the process I have learnt a bit of PHP, python and pygtk stuff. But didn’t do much with it.
Come January, I had my new toy, a Nexus One. My first android, and so was exited to write android apps. Installed sdk and started writing stuff for android, just for learning, I was never planning to publish any of my apps. I have to say the application development framework was well thought of, hats off to guys at google, it makes so easy to write applications, and integration with eclipse is a charm.
Feb’10 to Jun’10 was a rat race at the office so much work had to be done, couldn’t even read any tech blogs except when I am in toilet that is.. 
Mean while I have become bit of Ubuntu cult in my friendly neighborhood. I have converted four of my friends to use Ubuntu as their mainstream home computing. And point to be noted is that they are quite happy with the switch.. Phew.. But few more left to be convinced.
Bored with my XPS machine, I have sent it off on its adventures via ebay. Got myself a new Asus U30A, chucked the 320gig hdd off to ebay and installed a 30gig SSD (200mb read and 170mb write), and Ubuntu 10.04 on it. So was doing a bit of research on ssd optimizations like move tmp var and some other folders to be mounted on tmpfs etc, and I am loving it. From power on to desktop takes about 4 to 6 seconds, and response is.. hmm.. brrrrrrillllianto..
Whats on my mind now.. hmm quite a lot.. to learn and do that is.. I was thinking of spinning a Ubuntu for my friends kid, write an android app and publish it to market, write a small desktop application, and few more.
I will post the progress as it goes on.. Till then.. be happy penguins..
