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 […]
Category Archives: Microconference
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 […]
Toolchains Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-17 – 18:10
We are pleased to announce that the Toolchains Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! The Linux kernel may be one of the most powerful systems around, but it takes a powerful toolchain to make that happen. The kernel takes advantage of any feature that the toolchains provide, and collaboration between the […]
Open Printing Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-14 – 15:18
We are pleased to announce that the Open Printing Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! In today’s world much is done online. But getting a hardcopy is still very much needed, even today. Then there’s the case of having a hardcopy and wanting to scan it to make it digital. All […]
Live Patching Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-13 – 20:19
We are pleased to announce that the Live Patching Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! There are some workloads that require 100% uptime so rebooting for maintenance is not an option. But this can make the system insecure as new security vulnerabilities may have been discovered in the running kernel. Live […]
You, Me and IoT Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-12 – 14:00
We are pleased to announce that the You, Me and IoT Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! IoT is becoming an integral part of our daily lives, controlling such devices as on/off switches, temperature controls, door and window sensors and so much more. But the technology itself requires a lot of […]
Containers and Checkpoint/Restore MC Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-06-04 – 14:05
We are pleased to announce that the Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Even after the success of last year’s Containers Microconference, there’s still more to work on this year. Last year had a security focus that featured seccomp support and LSM namespacing and stacking, but now the […]
Distribution Kernels Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-05-27 – 17:24
We are pleased to announce that the Distribution Kernels Microconference has been accepted to the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference. This is the first time Plumbers has offered a microconference focused on kernel distribution collaboration. Linux distributions come in many forms, ranging from community run distributions like Debian and Gentoo, to commercially supported ones offered by […]
Tracing Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-05-20 – 17:37
We are pleased to announce that the Tracing Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Its return to Linux Plumbers shows that tracing is not finished in Linux, and there continue to be challenging problems to solve. There’s a broad list of ways to perform Tracing in Linux. From the original mainline […]
RISC-V microconference accepted for the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference
2019-05-10 – 19:55
The open nature of the RISC-V ecosystem has allowed contributions from both academia and industry leading to an unprecedented number of new hardware design proposals in a very short time span. Linux support is the key to enabling these new hardware options. Since last year’s Plumbers, many kernel features were added to RISC-V. To name […]
