LinuxCon Tracks [
clear filter]
11:15 CEST
A Gentle Introduction to [e]BPF - Michael Schubert, Kinvolk GmbH
Speakers MS
Software Engineer, Kinvolk GmbH
Michael is a Software Engineer from Berlin where he works on low-level Linux software at Kinvolk GmbH, a Linux development company. Before that, he was working as a Backend and Operations Engineer for a Swiss Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider. He is a maintainer of gobpf, a Go...
Read More →
11:15 CEST
11:15 CEST
x86 Platform Drivers - Darren Hart, VMware
Speakers
Sr Director, VMware Open Source Technology Center
Darren is the Sr Director of the Open Source Technology Center at VMware. He leads the engineering team in their efforts to contribute to open-source projects as well as role model and advocate for open source engineering best practices at VMware and in the projects they contribute...
Read More →
Monday October 23, 2017 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Tyrolka
12:05 CEST
12:05 CEST
12:05 CEST
Open Data - Mike Dolan, The Linux Foundation
Speakers
VP of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation
Michael Dolan is VP of Strategic Programs supporting open source projects and legal programs at The Linux Foundation. He has set up and launched dozens of open source and open standards projects covering technology segments including networking, virtualization, cloud, blockchain...
Read More →
14:20 CEST
Collaboration in Kernel Mailing Lists - Dawn Foster, The Scale Factory
Speakers
Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware
Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about...
Read More →
14:20 CEST
Hatching Security: LinuxKit as Security Incubator - Tycho Andersen and Riyaz Faizullabhoy, Docker Inc.
Speakers TA
Software Engineer, Docker, Inc
Tycho is an engineer at Docker working on LinuxKit, a toolkit for building container-focused host operating systems out of Linux. In his spare time he rides bikes and does improv comedy. Tycho has been fortunate to speak at a number of industry conferences including linux.conf.au...
Read More → RF
Security Engineer, Docker, Inc
Riyaz works on the security team at Docker and is a maintainer of LinuxKit and Notary. Prior to Docker, Riyaz researched malware and systems security at UC Berkeley. Riyaz has also spoken at DockerCon, LinuxCon NA, ContainerCon EU, and past Docker meetups.
Monday October 23, 2017 14:20 - 15:00 CEST
Tyrolka
14:20 CEST
15:10 CEST
Comparison of Foss Distributed Storage - Marian Marinov, SiteGround
Speakers
Head of Operations, SiteGround
Marian is a system administrator by heart. He is working with Linux for more than 20 years. Currently, he is Chief System Architect at SiteGround – world leading web hosting and IT provider.He is a big fan of FOSS and regularly speaks at different conferences around the world, and...
Read More →
15:10 CEST
Contain Your Desktop Applications with Flatpak - Lili Cosic, Kinvolk
Speakers
Software Developer, Kinvolk
Lili is a Software Developer at Kinvolk, a Berlin-based Linux development consultancy, where she works on a variety of projects surrounding Linux. Currently she is working on a Habitat Operator, a controller to easily create and manage Habitat Services on Kubernetes. In her free time...
Read More →
15:10 CEST
Trolling != Enforcement - Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project
Speakers
OpenChain General Manager, Linux Foundation
Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history, establishing the leading professional...
Read More →
Monday October 23, 2017 15:10 - 15:50 CEST
Tyrolka
16:20 CEST
CRIU: CRazI stUff for the Mainframe? - Michael Holzheu, IBM
Speakers
Mr., IBM
Michael Holzheu is a Linux kernel developer at the IBM lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Erlangen and has worked for IBM since 1998. After a start in the z/OS UNIX Systems Services environment, he joined the Linux on z Systems team in 2000...
Read More →
16:20 CEST
16:20 CEST
17:10 CEST
17:10 CEST
Rethinking the OS: A Travel Journal - Thorsten Kukuk, SUSE
Speakers
Distinguished Engineer, SUSE
Thorsten is working since over 20 years for SUSE, he is a Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect for SLES and MicroOS and leading the Future Technology Team. He started his Open Source Career about 25 years ago.
18:00 CEST
BoF: Fedora, CentOS and EPEL - Brian Exelbierd, Jim Perrin & Peter Robinson, Red Hat
Speakers
Community Business Owner, Red Hat
Brian “bex” Exelbierd enjoys a good beer, a nice coffee, and a rousing conversation about taxation. Born in the USA, he now lives with his partner and daughter in Brno, Czech Republic. His focus is on his family, walks for artisinal bread, and reading long form articles. By night...
Read More →
Manager, Community Platform Engineering, Red Hat, Inc
Jim manages both the CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure teams at Red Hat. He's been active in both communities since 2004
Principal IoT Architect @ Red Hat, Red Hat
Peter is the lead architect for device edge and IoT at Red Hat. He's focused on industry standardisation and generally trying to improve the IoT space. He's actively involved in the wider Fedora Linux and arm ecosystems. In his spare time he likes to cook and trying to work out how...
Read More →
Monday October 23, 2017 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
Tyrolka
10:55 CEST
10:55 CEST
11:45 CEST
11:45 CEST
Intro to Ceph, the Distributed Storage System - Gregory Farnum, Red Hat
Speakers GF
Principal Software Engineer, Ceph, Red Hat
Greg Farnum is a long-standing member of the core Ceph development group, having joined the project as the third full-time engineer after graduating from Harvey Mudd College in 2009. Now a Red Hat employee, Greg has done major work on all components of the Ceph ecosystem and currently...
Read More →
14:05 CEST
14:05 CEST
14:05 CEST
14:55 CEST
Containerized Full-Stack Rust for IoT - Claus Matzinger, Microsoft
Speakers
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Now at Microsoft, Claus used to run field engineering at Crate.io, the creators of CrateDB, a distributed SQL database. As a former CTO of a health startup and an Raspberry Pi and Rust (the programming language) enthusiast, Claus also maintains several drivers for sensors in the Rust...
Read More →
Tuesday October 24, 2017 14:55 - 15:35 CEST
Tyrolka
14:55 CEST
Panel Discussion: Kernel Developer Panel - Moderated by Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net
Moderators
Executive Editor, LWN.net
Speakers
Fedora Kernel Engineer, Red Hat
Laura is currently employed Red Hat as a Fedora Kernel Engineer. She thinks kernels are really cool, even when they crash. Her day-to-day work involves bug fixes, tending the Fedora kernel releases, and other development work for the benefit of Fedora.
Linux Kernel Developer, SUSE
Vlastimil is a Linux kernel developer working at SUSE, focusing on memory management. Previously he was a Gentoo Linux developer.
Kernel Developer, Linaro
Arnd Bergmann works for Linaro as one of the maintainers of the arm-soc tree, through which the platform specific code for ARM based SoCs are merged. As a long-time kernel contributor, he has worked on many CPU architectures and subsystems before that, and his current side interests...
Read More →
CTO, Linutronix GmbH
Thomas Gleixner is a long-time Linux kernel developer with an embedded background and a strong affinity to impossible missions. Aside of his role as CTO of Linutronix GmbH, a Germany based FOSS consultancy and service provider, he’s an active maintainer in the Linux kernel project...
Read More →
Narcisa Vasile is a student at University Politehnica of Bucharest. She was an Outreachy intern in summer 2017.
16:05 CEST
BOF: ARMing Fedora and CentOS: The State of ARM Support - Jim Perrin & Peter Robinson, Red Hat
Speakers
Manager, Community Platform Engineering, Red Hat, Inc
Jim manages both the CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure teams at Red Hat. He's been active in both communities since 2004
Principal IoT Architect @ Red Hat, Red Hat
Peter is the lead architect for device edge and IoT at Red Hat. He's focused on industry standardisation and generally trying to improve the IoT space. He's actively involved in the wider Fedora Linux and arm ecosystems. In his spare time he likes to cook and trying to work out how...
Read More →
Tuesday October 24, 2017 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
Tyrolka
16:05 CEST
16:55 CEST
Panel Discussion: Outreachy Kernel Internship Report - Moderated by Julia Lawall, Inria
Moderators
Senior Researcher, Inria
Julia Lawall is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria. Her research is at the intersection of programming languages and operating systems. She develops the tool Coccinelle and has over 2000 patches in the Linux kernel based on this work.
Speakers BG
Software Engineer, Gojek
Bhumika Goyal has recently graduated from NIIT University, India. She is a former Outreachy intern. She is currently continuing her Outreachy project under Julia Lawall with the support of Core Infrastructure Initiative. She aims to become a Linux-kernel engineer in future.
Student, Stony Brook University
I am a former Linux kernel intern via the Outreachy program and a current student at Stony Brook University. Please refer to saylikarnik.wordpress.com for details about my projects.
VR
Student
Varsha Rao is a final year student at National Institute of Engineering in India.She was an Outreachy intern in summer 2017.
Eva Rachel Retuya is a computer engineering graduate based in the Philippines. She is a former Linux kernel Outreachy intern with interests in FOSS and Electronics. She is currently seeking opportunities in Linux kernel development and embedded systems.
GS
Software Engineer, Outreachy
Gargi worked as an Outreachy intern for the Linux Kernel during round 14. She worked on replacing the process ID allocation implementation with a radix tree. She currently works as a software engineer at Bloomberg LP, working on the buy side trading platform.
Narcisa Vasile is a student at University Politehnica of Bucharest. She was an Outreachy intern in summer 2017.
16:55 CEST
Subverting the Linux Kernel - Jessica Yu
Speakers JY
Software Engineer, Hobbyist
Jessica is a kernel developer maintaining the modules code in the linux kernel and working on kernel live patching.
Tuesday October 24, 2017 16:55 - 17:35 CEST
Tyrolka
11:15 CEST
11:15 CEST
Understanding User Namespaces - Michael Kerrisk, man7.org Training and Consulting
Speakers
Trainer/consultant, man7.org Training and Consulting
Michael Kerrisk is the author of the acclaimed book, "The Linux Programming Interface" (http://man7.org/tlpi/), a guide and reference for system programming on Linux and UNIX. He contributes to the Linux kernel primarily via documentation, review, and testing of new kernel-user-space...
Read More →
Wednesday October 25, 2017 11:15 - 11:55 CEST
Tyrolka
12:05 CEST
12:05 CEST
printk() - It's Old, What Can We Do to Make It Young Again? - Steven Rostedt, VMware & Sergey Senozhatsky, Samsung Electronics
Speakers
Software Engineer, Google
Steven Rostedt currently works for Google on their ChromeOS team. Steven is the main developer and maintainer of ftrace, the official tracer of the Linux kernel, as well as the user space tools trace-cmd, the ftrace tracing libraries and co-maintainer of KernelShark. Steven is one...
Read More →
Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Sergey Senozhatsky currently works for Samsung Electronics, VD division, Korea.He is the co-maintainer of the printk() code. He is also a distinguished reviewer and developer for the upstream zsmalloc memory allocator and zram compressing block device driver.
Wednesday October 25, 2017 12:05 - 12:45 CEST
Tyrolka
14:15 CEST
Replacing the Radix Tree - Matthew Wilcox, Microsoft
Speakers MW
Kernel Hacker, Oracle
Matthew has been a Linux kernel hacker since 1998. His projects have included file locking, PA-RISC and Itanium, SCSI, NVM Express and persistent memory. He is a regular speaker at Linux conferences. He currently works for Oracle on a variety of Linux kernel projects.
Wednesday October 25, 2017 14:15 - 14:55 CEST
Tyrolka
14:15 CEST
15:05 CEST
16:15 CEST
seccomp(2) vs pledge(2) - Giovanni Bechis, SNB S.r.l.
Speakers
Ceo / Software Developer, SNB S.r.l.
I started working with Linux and *BSD in late 90's, I worked as Linux and FreeBSD system administrator in a software house. In 2005 I founded my own software house, we create web solutions, hosting and ICT solutions. From 2008 I am an OpeBSD committer and I develop ports and some...
Read More →
Wednesday October 25, 2017 16:15 - 16:55 CEST
Tyrolka
16:15 CEST
What's New with ftrace? - Steven Rostedt, Vmware
Speakers
Software Engineer, Google
Steven Rostedt currently works for Google on their ChromeOS team. Steven is the main developer and maintainer of ftrace, the official tracer of the Linux kernel, as well as the user space tools trace-cmd, the ftrace tracing libraries and co-maintainer of KernelShark. Steven is one...
Read More →
17:05 CEST
Transactional Updates with btrfs and RPMs - Thorsten Kukuk, SUSE
Speakers
Distinguished Engineer, SUSE
Thorsten is working since over 20 years for SUSE, he is a Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect for SLES and MicroOS and leading the Future Technology Team. He started his Open Source Career about 25 years ago.
Wednesday October 25, 2017 17:05 - 17:45 CEST
Tyrolka
17:05 CEST
Why Should We Care About Kernelnewbies! - Vaishali Thakkar, Oracle
Speakers
Linux kernel engineer, Freelancer
Vaishali Thakkar is a freelance kernel engineer and co-organizer of RGSoC. She has diverse interest in different areas/subsystems of Linux Kernel, including but not limited to I2C, Security, memory management. power management etc. She also volunteers as a coordinator for Linux Kernel...
Read More →