The Kernel Summit brings together the world’s leading developers on the Linux kernel for a face-to-face meeting aimed at working out the plan for the next development cycle. Just as year’s past, this invitation-only, two day event, will deliver sessions and workshops where core developers and industry leaders can readily share and exchange ideas, thus creating development and innovation in the Linux community.
The Kernel Summit was launched in 2000 and initiated by leading Kernel Developer Ted Ts'o, who has remained the Program Chair since the event’s inception.
Dave talks about unifying boot time tools for the Linux kernel, his presentation on speeding up boot time and what
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can be done to improve interaction between the userspace and kernel communities.
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December 2, 2008
Dirk speaks about the past, present and future of the Kernel Summit. He also discusses the importance of open-sourcing
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drivers and the benefits having drivers be part of the “upstream”.
Project(s) Mentioned: Moblin http://www.moblin.org/
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Kristen talks about the Linux Plumbers' Conference, the evolution of Linux conferences and about open source development being a viable
Stephen talks about his work on the Linux-next tree, the process he follows when making a release, the benefits
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to core maintainers and the challenges involved in maintaining the tree.
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John speaks about his experience at the Kernel Summit and summarizes the state of wireless LAN networking in Linux and
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the importance of supporting vendors that are more “open”.
Project(s) Mentioned: Linux Wireless http://wireless.kernel.org/
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Paul talks about Patchwork, a web-based system that creates an interactive webpage that lists all patches and corresponding comments to
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allow for easy review and filtering. He also discusses the implementation of the tool by other maintainers for their projects.
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Linus speaks about the Linux Kernel Summit and shares his thoughts on kernel quality, regressions and the state of the
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current release cycle. He also shares his thoughts on userland tools and the Git development community.
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Mathieu describes the LTTng project, the state of Linux monitoring tools and an in-depth comparison of the existing tools.
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Greg shares his thoughts on the current Kernel release cycle and how it impacts enterprise releases. He also discusses
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his work with the staging server, the Linux Driver Project and the importance of the Linux Plumbers' Conference.
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Chris shares his thoughts on the benefits of the Linux Kernel Summit, the filesystem and reporting workshop, the importance of
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file systems to Linux users, BtrFS (Butter FS) and Oracle's involvement within the Linux community.
Project(s) Mentioned: ButrFS http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
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Raphael discusses his presentation on regressions, the importance of getting more kernel developers involved in the regression mailing list and
Ted Ts'o gives the Kernel Summit 2008 Report at the Linux Foundation Japan Symposium #9.
David speaks about the state of Linux and Linux networking and his experience speaking at Linux Symposium Japan.
