LinuxCon North America 2012
2012-08-29..2012-08-31
San Diego, United States
who it's for
cloud infrastructure engineers, linux kernel developers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, embedded linux engineers, hardware engineers, open source project maintainers
topics
OpenStack deployment patterns; Ceph storage and Inktank; Open Compute hardware designs; AllJoyn peer-to-peer mesh; Twitter JVM stack and Mesos; Ubuntu as OpenStack substrate; kernel perf and KVM profiling; Yocto embedded Linux development; cloud portability and AWS-compatible APIs; WebKit and HTML5 system APIs; Project Moonshot hyperscale servers; Juju charms orchestration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Nature of Innovation in a Collaboration Economy | Phil McKinney | 23m |
Claims that large organizations face an Innovation gap (quality ideas) and an Innovation delay (time to market) are backed with specifics: HP screens 3500–4000… | ||
| Service Oriented Clouds | Michael Miller | 19m |
Announces a new SUSE Cloud product powered by OpenStack and claims it turns procedural IT lifecycles into API driven, activity‑oriented workflows; uses Open… | ||
| The Open Source Technology Behind a Tweet | Chris Aniszczyk | 22m |
Twitter runs on a JVM stack with GitHub-hosted projects and 80+ open repos, uses MySQL (public fork) behind a sharding layer Gizzard, and stores relationships… | ||
| Making Hardware More Open | Amir Michael | 15m |
Facebook opens its datacenter hardware under the Open Compute Project, publishes CAD files and specs, and claims measurable gains: a 95% efficient power… | ||
| Mobility, Proximal Data and Compute Meshes | Rob Chandhok | 22m |
Qualcomm describes a concrete open source platform called AllJoyn that runs peer‑to‑peer on multiple radios and operating systems, plugs into D‑Bus APIs, and… | ||
| The State of the Linux Kernel Panel | Linus Torvalds | 51m |
Panel reports Linux kernel has ~3,000 contributors with about 85 maintainers at the summit, and survives personnel changes by routing around people. Recent… | ||
| Open Cloud: Collapsing the Layers | Kyle MacDonald | 18m |
Canonical claims Ubuntu is the default OpenStack substrate, with most OpenStack installs running on Ubuntu and commercial support sold since 2010; partners… | ||
| The Importance of Linux at Intel | Imad Sousou | 17m |
Intel describes concrete work to make HTML/JS apps viable: creation of a W3C system applications group to standardize missing APIs (camera, Bluetooth… | ||
| Infrastructure & the Cloud | Kirk Bresniker | 22m |
HP claims one server ships every 15 seconds and about 25–50% run Linux, and presents three infrastructure bets: Project Moonshot has a vendor room demo and… | ||
| What is the Open Cloud? | John Mark Walker, Joe _Zonker_ Brockmeier, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Stefano Maffulli, Sam Ramji | 32m |
Panelists argue that openness is about AWS-compatible APIs and real portability not vague promises, demonstrating Eucalyptus, OpenStack and CloudStack code… | ||
| the State of Linux | Jim Zemlin | 15m |
Argues that software defines product value so companies must master open source rather than just consume it, citing Microsoft supporting Linux in its cloud and… | ||
| One-on-One – Sam Ramji | Sam Ramji | 03m |
Apigee engineer describes how multi-sided markets let established companies like Sears, AT&T and General Motors reframe themselves as platforms that create… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Sage Weil, CEO and Chief Architect, Inktank | Sage Weil | 01m |
Ceph is an object storage system built to scale to tens of thousands of nodes and to serve large infrastructure deployments that need enterprise features and… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Josh Berkus and PostgreSQL | Josh Berkus | 02m |
PostgreSQL 9.2 arrives in weeks with two concrete changes: across-the-board performance improvements that target scaling on larger systems and new JSON support… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Red Hat's John Mark Walker | John Mark Walker | 02m |
Asserts that open source powers the cloud and that the old debate over whether open source would survive cloud computing is over, shifting to a concrete claim… | ||
| Linux Event TV: CloudStack's Joe Brockmeier | Joe _Zonker_ Brockmeier | 04m |
CloudStack is an open source IaaS toolkit for building private, public or hybrid clouds that runs on vSphere/VMware, KVM, and Xen, and exposes self‑service web… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Bitrock CEO Erica Brescia | Erica Brescia | 04m |
Bitnami runs an App Store of about 50 apps (WordPress, Drupal, Liferay, Ruby on Rails, Java stacks) packaged to deploy in native, virtual or cloud… | ||
| One-on-One – Amir Michael | Amir Michael | 02m |
Open Compute Project promotes building open source hardware — rack servers, storage systems and full data center designs — for large-scale deployments, with… | ||
| Skateboarding | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 01m |
Starts skateboarding at eight or nine, works in a skateboard and surf shop, and managed a skate team that built ramps that made videos. Describes a crash off… | ||
| Open Cloud | Gerrit Huizenga | 03m |
Argues that cloud began because open source enabled large-scale services—Yahoo on BSD, EC2 on Xen, Google on Linux—but today commercial proprietary stacks… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Linux Developer John Linn | John Linn | 02m |
Xilinx builds field-programmable gate arrays programmed with HDL and now ships parts that include dual Cortex-A9 processors that run Linux; engineering work… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Sony's Tim Bird | Tim Bird | 06m |
Conference attendance grows to its largest year as embedded Linux adoption keeps expanding into cameras and TVs and hundreds of millions of Android devices in… | ||
| Talks Android, ARM and LWN | Jon Corbet | 05m |
Summary of a keynote panel that reports steady progress on mainline merging of Android drivers and memory-management fixes, with many Android-specific patches… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 04m |
Maintains stable kernel releases by collecting fixes and releasing a stable kernel every other week, and manages one long-term release chosen yearly for two… | ||
| Becoming a Linux Developer | Sarah Sharp | 02m |
Starts with a college project implementing usbfs2, presented at oscon, which directly leads to being hired to write a Linux kernel USB driver for a new USB… | ||
| Embedded Linux Pushes Forward with Yocto Project | Jeff Osier-Mixon | 02m |
Yocto Project 1.1 ships a real graphical user interface to BitBake, making builds approachable rather than command-line only, and formally aligns with… | ||
| Shares Views on Open Compliance | Bradley M. Kuhn | 02m |
Overview of a practical compliance workflow that targets the embedded market where vendors often do not realize devices contain GPL code. Process identifies… | ||
| the Future of Linux | Alan Clark | 02m |
Linux wins on flexibility and modularity, enabling deployment across phones, cars, airplane entertainment systems and grocery cash registers. Using SUSE Studio… | ||
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