The waiting list for this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference is now closed. All of the spots available have been allocated, so anyone who is not registered at this point will have to wait for next year. There will be no on-site registration. We regret that we could not accommodate everyone. The good news is that […]
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System Boot and Security Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-17 – 16:57
We are pleased to announce that the System Boot and Security Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Computer-system security is a topic that has gotten a lot of serious attention over the years, but there has not been anywhere near as much attention paid to the system firmware. But the firmware […]
Power Management and Thermal Control Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-10 – 22:29
We are pleased to announce that the Power Management and Thermal Control Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Power management and thermal control are important areas in the Linux ecosystem to help improve the environment of the planet. In recent years, computer systems have been becoming more and more complex and […]
Android Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-09 – 23:29
We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Android has a long history at Linux Plumbers and has continually made progress as a direct result of these meetings. This year’s focus will be a fairly ambitious goal to create a Generic Kernel Image (GKI) (or […]
VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-08 – 17:56
We are pleased to announce that the VFIO/IOMMU/PCI Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! The PCI interconnect specification and the devices implementing it are incorporating more and more features aimed at high performance systems. This requires the kernel to coordinate the PCI devices, the IOMMUs they are connected to and the […]
Scheduler Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-07 – 14:51
We are pleased to announce that the Scheduler Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! The scheduler determines what runs on the CPU at any given time. The lag of your desktop is affected by the scheduler, for example. There are a few different scheduling classes for a user to choose from, […]
RDMA Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-07-03 – 22:54
We are pleased to announce that the RDMA Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! RDMA has been a microconference at Plumbers for the last three years and will be continuing its productive work for a fourth year. The RDMA meetings at the previous Plumbers have been critical in getting improvements to […]
Databases Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-26 – 15:14
We are pleased to announce that the Databases Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Linux plumbing is heavily important to those who implement databases and their users who expect fast and durable data handling. Durability is a promise never to lose data after advising a user of a successful update, even […]
Real-Time Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-19 – 22:55
We are pleased to announce that the Real-Time Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! The PREEMPT_RT patch set (aka “The Real-Time Patch”) was created in 2004 in the effort to make Linux into a hard real-time designed operating system. Over the years much of the RT patch has made it into […]
Testing and Fuzzing Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-19 – 02:29
We are pleased to announce that the Testing and Fuzzing Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Testing and fuzzing are crucial to the stability that the Linux kernel demands. Last year’s microconference brought about a number of discussions; for example, syzkaller evolved as syzbot, which keeps track of fuzzing efforts and […]
