Dark Liquid

I went to BUNIX yesterday, the Bournemouth UNIX enthusiasts group that is run at Bournemouth University every so often. I heard some cool talks, a demonstration on how to install OpenBSD and what the particular idiosyncrasies in it’s installer actually been to a non-BSD-head. Another talk was given on Cloud computing and what it means, where it’s going and some of the cool things that can be done with it. The final talk was demoing some cool alternative operating systems – GoboLinux, something I’d heard of before which is a take on an alternate file structure and package management system based around grouping things together in obvious to non-techies ways and then making them work with a mass of symlinks behind the scenes. This was followed by two other operating systems coded entirely in assembler which booted lightning fast (sub-three-seconds) and had full graphical interfaces and various cool bits, such as a 3D teapot demo that looked like it’s framerate was somewhere around a billion FPS.

All in all some pretty interesting stuff. At the end of the meetup I got myself roped into doing a talk on DSLs in Ruby, so I guess I’ve got some planning to do for next month!

This coming Wednesday, I will hopefully be meeting up with some other Bournemouth Rubyists for the first ever Bournemouth.rb meetup and hopefully some cool stuff will come of that.