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Videos from the Linux Symposium in Ottawa

Gilad Ben-Yossef August 14th, 2008

The wonderful Michael Opdenacker and Thomas Petazzoni from Free Electrons are at it again - they have released 29 videos of talks, tutorials and “birds of a feather” sessions given at the 2008 Linux Symposium in Ottawa.

The released video includes the following:

  • Keynote: The Kernel: 10 Years in Review, by Matthew Wilcox (Intel)
  • Talk: Tux on the Air: State of Linux Wireless Networking, by John W. Linville (Red Hat)
  • Talk: Suspend to RAM in Linux: State of the Union, by Len Brown and Rafael Wysocki (Intel)
  • Talk: Real Time vs Real Fast: How To Choose?, by Paul E. McKenney (IBM)
  • Tutorial: ftrace: latency tracer, by Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
  • BOF: Embedded Linux, by Tim R. Bird (Sony)
  • BOF: Embedded Micro controller Linux, by Michael Durrant (Arcturus Networks)
  • Talk: Energy-aware task and interrupt management, by Vaidyanathan Srinivasan (IBM)
  • Talk: Application Testing Under Realtime Linux, by Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves (Red Hat)
  • Talk: Application Framework for Your Mobile Device, by Shreyas Srinivasan (Geodesic Information Systems)
  • Keynote: The Making of OpenMoko Neo, by Werner Almesberger (OpenMoko)
  • BOF: U-Boot by Wolfgang Denk (Denx)
  • BOF: Linux Compiler, by Rob Landley (Impact Linux)
  • Talk: Advanced XIP File System, by Jared Hulbert (Intel)
  • Talk: SELinux for Consumer Electronic Devices, by Yuichi Nakamura (Hitachi)
  • Talk: Around the Linux File System World in 45 Minutes, by Steve French (IBM)
  • BOF: Linux The Easy Way with LTIB, by Stuart Hughes (Freescale)
  • Keynote: The Joy of Synchronicity: Coordinating the Releases of Upstream and Distributions, by Mark Shuttleworth
  • Talk: Smack in Embedded Computing, by Casey Schauffer
  • Talk: Bazillions of Pages: The Future of Memory Management, by Christoph H. Lameter (SGI)
  • Tutorial: Writing application fault handlers, by Gilad Ben-Yossef (Codefidence)
  • Talk: Linux, Open Source and System Bringup Tools, by Tim Hockin (Google)
  • Talk: DCCP Reached Mobiles, by Leandro Melo Sales (Federal University of Campina Grande)
  • Talk: Building a robust Linux kernel, by Subrata Modak (IBM)
  • CELF BOF presentation: Best of recent CELF Conferences, by Tim Bird (Sony)
  • CELF BOF presentation: Developing Embedded Linux with Target Control, by Tim Bird (Sony)
  • CELF BOF presentation: Embedded Building Tools - An Audience Survey, by Michael Opdenacker (Free Electrons)
  • CELF BOF presentation: GCC Tips and Tricks Highlights, by Gene Sally

The videos and related resources can be downloaded from their conference videos page.

I especially recommend viewing the exceptional “Real Time vs Real Fast: How To Choose?” talk by Paul E. McKenney from IBM and the the “The Making of OpenMoko Neo” keynote, by Werner Almesberger of the OpenMoko.

Much thanks to Michael and Thomas for sharing this with everybody.

Gilad

A new lecture: Crash N’ Burn

Tuxology team June 30th, 2008

We’ve just added a brand new tutorial to the lectures section on the site, entitled: “Crash and burn: Writing Linux application fault handlers“. Check out the full description, slides and example code on the lecture page.

Or, if you’d rather see our very own Gilad Ben-Yossef present the tutorial in front of a live audience, you’re welcome to attend one of the following venues:

Hope to see you there!

Tuxology team

Penguin In a Box 2008

Limor Pipman June 5th, 2008

We are proud to announce that the third annual Penguin In A Box embedded Linux seminar organized by Codefidence ltd. in cooperation with Hi Tech College, will be held at the 03/07/2008 07/08/2008 in the Daniel hotel and convention center in Herzelia, Israel.

As the use of Linux in the embedded market is on the rise and it’s development continues at an extraordinary rate, the seminar will cover, as in previous years, a broad range of topics relevant to Linux based embedded system developers wishing to keep abreast of recent developments.

For further details, check out the seminar web page (in Hebrew).

Interview with Jon Masters

Tuxology team May 22nd, 2008

Linux.com’s Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller interviews Jon Masters, Linux kernel hacker, RedHat device drivers maintainer and author of several Linux books, during Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit of 2008 about drivers back porting and other issues.

Dynamic Linker Demystefied

Tuxology team May 15th, 2008

Slides for the presentation on the Linux dynamic linker given by Gilad Ben-Yossef, Codefidence CTO, at the Wind River Embedded Linux Conference in Ramat Ilan, Israel in December 4, 2007 has been published on the Codefidence web site.