This year's meeting was one of the most successful meetings. The Debian people and the Linux developers both implemented quite a lot. There was also a lot of personal and political talk between serveral groups and people. Bernhard Reiter from the Free Software Foundation Europe contributed to this.

m68k Architecture

• Implemented new driver model support for the Amiga Zorro bus with testing done using User-Mode Linux.
• Implemented sysfs for the Amiga Zorro bus with testing done using User-Mode Linux.
• Several compile fixes for some Linux/m68k drivers
• Upgrade of the Linux/m68k tree to 2.6.0-test6
• Some work to update and optimize the m68k/2.6 cache API, but that needs a bit more testing.
• Porting of the existing Zorro-to-ISA bridge driver (GoldenGate 2+) from the 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on both the m68k and PPC/APUS.

PowerPC Architecture

Finally got 2.6 boot on the APUS
• Porting of the existing Zorro-to-ISA bridge driver (GoldenGate 2+) from the 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on both the m68k and PPC/APUS.

MIPS Architecture

• When the meeting started the initrd support was not working anymore for both MIPS architectures (IP22 and DECstation). After some tweaking it was working again on both, so the debian-installer could finally be tested.
• Maciej W. Rozycki implemented and tested a preliminary TurboChannel FDDI card driver for the DECstation.
• The meeting also started a framebuffer driver for the TurboChannel TGA graphics card for DECstation.
• Got the driver for the IndyCam working.

VAX Architecture

• When the meeting started, booting Linux on the VAX resulted in ... nothing. The kernel was booted and tried to start the VM system but wasn't able to produce any output and just stopped. The VAX machine finally was made to boot Linux and create some output.
• There are rumours to start a binary-vax port of Debian once the kernel, libc and toolchain are working properly.

Sparc Architecture

• The sun4d architecture (SparcSserver machines) is supported again. Both uni- and multi-processor systems are able to run Linux again.

IA-32 Architecture

• Investigation (still ongoing) why User-Mode Linux doesn't work when linked with libpthread
• Investigating the possibility of adding a netboot option to lilo, the netboot support of grub looks promising, but that needs a bit more work to get working.

Debian

• The Debian people have been pushing and further implementing the debian-installer. It now fully supports the i386 and powerpc architecture.
• Martin Sjögren implemented the partitioner.
• Several people implemented the yaboot installer.
• On the big endian MIPS architecture it came to the retriever (but the network driver wasn't loaded).
• On the little endian MIPS architecture the installer was looping due to a bug in the main script, but was finally able to start the retriever. Then it fails, though.

GIMP Architecture

Development was done mostly on libart stroking, which draws a path into an image using libart. This is relatively new. Before this meeting one could only redraw a path automatically using a drawing utility. Simon Budig was working on this.

• Implemented a new object that contains the options of a libart stroke. Adjusted the signature of gimp_item_stroke() accordingly.
• Implementation of a rudimentary options dialog for strokes.
• Begin of the implementation of a PreviewRenderer for previewing of vectors in various dialogs.
• Fixed several undo-bugs in plugs that create new images "from scratch".