foss-north 2020 take ii
2020-11-01
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who it's for
embedded developers, linux kernel developers, systems programmers, open source community managers, security engineers, privacy engineers, retrocomputing maintainers
topics
FPGA-based SoC design; RISC-V single-core CPU; Curve25519 crypto accelerator; kernel mode setting; drm atomic commits; dumb buffer framebuffer programming; algebraic data types in F#; F# and C# interop; Ansible collections and ansible-base; open source contribution workflows; ITS PDP-10 restoration; Tor pluggable transports and diversity
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Precursor | Bunnie Huang | 56m |
Precursor is a compact, inspectable mobile platform that compiles open hardware into an FPGA-based SoC using Migen/LiteX, pushing the point-of-check toward… | ||
| Getting pixels on screen on Linux: introduction to Kernel Mode Setting | Simon Ser | 52m |
Shows how to get a solid red image on Linux screens by opening /dev/dri/card0, creating dumb buffers with the CREATE_DUMB ioctl, mmaping and filling pixels… | ||
| Domain Driven Design (DDD) with Algebraic Data Types (ADT) | Ramón Soto Mathiesen | 58m |
Shows how algebraic data types map domain constraints into code: models bookings and books as ADTs, uses F# REPL live coding to build union types for… | ||
| A look at Ansible Community in 2020 - from Collections to Contributions to Conferences | Carol Chen | 44m |
Ansible splits in 2.10 into ansible-base (minimal core) and distributable collections, moving ~3,350 modules out of the monolith so features can ship faster. A… | ||
| Incompatible Timesharing System - History, Development, Restoration | Lars Brinkhoff | 44m |
An operating system for PDP-10s developed at MIT from the late 1960s through 1990, ITS emphasizes openness (no passwords, full source) and interactive… | ||
| Anonymity loves Diversity: The Case of Tor | Alexander, Georg | 01h 16m |
Explains why Tor’s safety depends on measurable diversity: the live network runs 6000–7000 relays across a few countries but is heavily concentrated in… | ||
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