LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2014
2014-10-13..2014-10-15
Düsseldorf, Germany
[LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013, LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2014]
who it's for
kernel developers, distribution maintainers, cloud engineers, infrastructure engineers, security engineers, enterprise IT managers, embedded developers
topics
kernel merge cadence and testing; driver-heavy regression testing; 64-bit seconds timekeeping (Year-2038); device tree mirror and pruning; Coccinelle static analysis; Xen and IOMMU desktop isolation; disposable virtual machines; NFV and SDN for mobile EPC; private cloud federation and file policies; amazon s3/ec2 history and services; amazon linux and docker support; live kernel patching (Kraft)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Linux: Where Are We Going | Dirk Hohndel, Linus Torvalds | 25m |
Discussion states the kernel is on a rapid merge cadence with roughly 10,000 patches per release from over a thousand contributors, most releases landing on a… | ||
| Linux Kernel Developer Panel | Grant Likely, Borislav Petkov, Thomas Gleixner, Julia Lawall, Frédéric Weisbecker, Jon Corbet | 44m |
Panel covers concrete changes and problems: a 3.18 flag "more packets coming" that measurably boosts small-packet TX, core timekeeping switched to 64-bit… | ||
| Qubes OS | Joanna Rutkowska | 22m |
Qubes OS claims practical desktop security by isolating tasks into separate VMs rather than fixing every bug, using Xen hypervisor and IOMMU (VT-d) to put… | ||
| Communities, Enterprises and All the Rest | Olaf Kirch | 21m |
Enterprises treat change as cost, not a feature: maintenance windows can be as small as 15 minutes a year, critical workloads run 6–10 months, and customers… | ||
| Building Exponential Communities | Jono Bacon | 21m |
Argues technology and access are growing exponentially: a $1,000 computer reaches human-brain power by 2025 and global mobile uptake adds a billion new minds… | ||
| The Service Enabling Wireless Network | Anthony C. K. Soong | 21m |
NFV and SDN are positioned to re-architect the 20+ year old EPC so mobile networks become nimble, flexible and scalable. Capacity growth is largely from 80–95%… | ||
| Giving Private Clouds Public Capabilities | Frank Karlitschek, Markus Rex | 35m |
Argues for a third‑generation model where on‑premise clouds talk to each other using server-to-server sharing and admin‑enforced file firewall policies… | ||
| How Open Source is Improving Health of the Poor | Paul Biondich | 22m |
OpenMRS is an open source medical record platform built as a Java web app (Hibernate + MySQL, Tomcat) with web services and HL7/CCD support, MPL code and… | ||
| Building Blocks of AWS | Chris Schlaeger | 22m |
Amazon traces its cloud from the 2006 launch of S3 and quickly adds EC2, virtual networking, databases, analytics, queuing and orchestration services, and a… | ||
| State of Linux | Jim Zemlin | 33m |
Linux Foundation announces a core infrastructure initiative funding grants (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, NTP) after Heartbleed and recent Bash bugs and hosts the first… | ||
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