The Linux kernel programming course for beginners? It's right there on your left. Enjoy.

... check back in a bit if you want to know about the introductory kernel programming course Jon Masters mentioned in the keynote. Or just look up there on your left.

No, your other left.

P.S. I'm at OLS most of the week if you want to chat. rpjday@crashcourse.ca.

P.P.S. Feel free to follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rpjday as well.

LATE BREAKING NEWS: For folks around Toronto who are interested in taking a first-level administration course in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I'm arranging with a Toronto business college to offer exactly that toward the end of this month.

We're still fleshing out the details but it will be four days of classroom instruction, with a cost of only $1700 (CAD) per student -- an obvious bargain these days.

At this point, we're about halfway through our inaugural "Introduction to Linux Kernel Programming" course. That would be the course link up there on your left. No, your other left.

Enjoy.

P.S. And just wait until you see the new web site banner graphic. Coming soon. You are going to be so jealous. Seriously.

P.P.S. If you want to keep up with course (and other) developments in real time, well, this is me on Twitter. I am now off to write the next lesson.

Not rocket surgery but here's how to check out and build the current development version of Blender on Ubuntu 10.04 so you can get a look at all the cool new features of Blender 2.5.

First, the packages you'll need:

$ sudo apt-get install \
 python3.1-dev \
 scons \
 subversion \
 libsdl1.2-dev \
 libxi-dev \
 libopenexr-dev \
 libavformat-dev \
 libsamplerate0-dev \
 libswscale-dev \
 libtiff4-dev \
 libavdevice-dev \
 libopenal-dev \
 gettext
$

As of yesterday, there's a new snapshot of Nuxeo DAM (Digital Asset Management) for Ubuntu -- nuxeo-dam-jboss_1.1-SNAPSHOT-20100702_all.deb -- and a lot of outstanding issues from the previous snapshot have been cleaned up. Among other things, "nuxeodam" user and group accounts have been created to act as owners of the running process, and lots of other little improvements. All in all, very nice so, at this point, I'm reduced to nitpicking:

For the purpose of general discussion about Crash Course's offerings, the delivery model or any other issues related to how Crash Course is writing and publishing online training, I've created the Mailman-based mailing list discuss@lists.crashcourse.ca, which is open to the public and which you can subscribe to by sending a short "subscribe" message to the address discuss-request@lists.crashcourse.ca (as long as I've managed to create and configure that correctly).

... I've tossed up one more publicly available lesson in the kernel programming course. Tidying up some loose ends, that's all it is. Enjoy.

OK, not the entire lesson but enough to get you started. I'll finish it shortly but feel free to get a headstart.

UPDATE: OK, now it's done.

It will take a few hours to recover from loading, unloading, setting up, tearing down, loading and unloading piles and piles of bike race stuff but I'm confident that, by the end of the day, lesson three will be a done deal. Check back later.

UPDATE: It's up. Go wild. have fun.