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Schedule: Linux sessions
Location: Portland 252
Darren Hoch (StrongMail Systems)
Moderated by: Darren Hoch
This tutorial trains how to solve complicated server networking issues using standard Linux tools. It breaks troubleshooting down by each protocol in the network stack. The instructor will describe the important components of the protocol, how to use tools to monitor for errors, how to correlate the outputs, and appropriate corrective actions. All teaching is case study based from experience.
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Location: D136
Keith Packard (Intel)
Moderated by: Keith Packard
Over the last several years, architectural changes within the Linux environment have promised new features and functionality for the desktop user, including transparent applications and multiuser displays. These have become demonstrable in limited environments for some time and work continues to bring them into wider use. This presentation will present the status and plans of these projects.
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Location: Portland 255
Adar Dembo (VMware Inc.)
Moderated by: Ragavan Srinivasan
The Open Virtual Machine Tools project provides a variety of tools and utilities that improve the performance and user experience of guest operating systems without requiring modifications to the kernel. This talk will describe the ways that the open-vm-tools project provides these improvements. The talk will be of particular interest to those working in the virtual appliance space.
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Location: D136
Matthew Garrett (Red Hat)
Moderated by: Matthew Garrett
The Linux desktop has moved far beyond the point where it consisted of a kernel, an X server, and the xclock command. A bewildering array of layers exist to move information around, abstract unnecessary complexities, and perform various practical functions. This presentation seeks to remove some of the mystery of the modern desktop.
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Location: D135
Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd),
Rick Clark (Canonical UK Ltd)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
Peek under the hood of the Ubuntu Server.
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Location: D136
Daniel V. Klein (Self-employed)
Moderated by: Daniel V. Klein
I flew across the Atlantic on an Airbus -- that was fly by wire. No cables in the control system, just a computer controlling everything. Would you fly if Windows was the controlling software? How about Linux? Think again!
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Location: Portland 255
Arjan van de Ven (Intel)
Moderated by: Arjan van de Ven
There has been much fuss about the supposedly decreasing quality of the Linux kernel. This presentation talks about some efforts to counter that, and shows measurements of what is really going on.
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Location: D136
John Goerzen (Hustler Turf Equipment)
Moderated by: John Goerzen
A mid-sized manufacturing company has successfully switched the majority of its employees to Linux on the desktop. This talk will cover why this was done, how it was accomplished, and the lessons learned during the deployment. It will cover both technical and business/political aspects of making such a switch, and give you pointers on making a similar switch in your organization.
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Location: D136
Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation)
Moderated by: Dirk Hohndel
A new class of devices is emerging that enables full Internet access while on the go. These internet-centric devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops combine the software compatibility of the PC with an easy to use, consumer friendly user interface.
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Location: Portland 255
Joe Brockmeier (Novell),
Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.),
Jono Bacon (Canonical UK Ltd),
John Mark Walker (CollabNet),
Jeremy Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.)
Moderated by: Joe Brockmeier
Over the past ten years nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today.
For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they've built?
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Location: D135
Peter Goodall (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
See the latest Ubuntu on ultra-mobile devices such as subnotebooks and MIDs.
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Location: Portland 255
Nat Friedman (Novell, Inc.)
Moderated by: Nat Friedman
Today the Linux world is dominated by one-size-fits-all Linux distributions that include thousands of packages and that can be two or three gigabytes fully installed.
In this presentation, Nat will introduce the benefits of streamlined, customized, single-purpose software appliances based on Linux -- in the form of virtual machine images, bootable and installable media, or live USB keys.
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Location: D135
Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd)
Moderated by: Nick Barcet
Technology and use cases for virtualization in Ubuntu.
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